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@defi_beats Just like Frankie Five Angels!

“Defi how’s Italy?” Italy:

@Noahpinion Correct. And, Robert E Lee was a slave driving traitor and a loser. The best thing he did was push decision making down to Jackson and Longstreet. His arrogance, pride, and myopic focus on Virginia kept him from relieving Vicksburg and lead to overreach in Gettysburg.

Not a military expert, but my intuition says that trading casualties against an enemy with far more resources by engaging in flashy maneuver warfare, instead of digging in and defending, *when you're on the strategic defensive anyway*, is not the apex of generalship, but hey

Looking east from white cap mountain, ME.

.@RobertskMiles is spitting fire: “People are starting from a prior in which ‘[AIs] are safe until you give me an airtight case for why they're dangerous.’ This framing is exhausting. You explain one of the 10,000 ways that AIs could be dangerous, then they explain why they don't think that specific thing would happen. Then you have to change tack, and then they say, 'your story keeps changing'... "If you're building an AGI, it's like building a Saturn V rocket [but with every human on it]. It's a complex, difficult engineering task, and you're going to try and make it aligned, which means it's going to deliver people to the moon and home again. People ask “why assume they won't just land on the Moon and return home safely?" And I'm like, because you don't know what you're doing! If you try to send people to the moon and you don't know what you're doing, your astronauts will die. [Unlike the telephone, or electricity, where you can assume it’s probably going to work out okay] I contend that ASI is more like the moon rocket. "The moon is small compared with the rest of the sky, so you don't get to the moon by default - you hit some part of the sky that isn't the moon. So, show me the plan by which you predict to specifically hit the moon." And then people say, “how do you predict that [AIs] will want bad things?” There's more bad things than good things! It's not actually a complicated argument... I'm not going to predict specifically where it off into random space your astronauts are going, but you're not going to hit the moon unless you have a really good, technically clear plan for how you do it. And if you ask these people for their plan, they don't have one. What's Yann Lecun’s plan?” "I think that if you're building an enormously powerful technology and you have a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen, this is bad. Like, this is default unsafe. If you've got something that's going to do enormously influential things in the world, and you don't know what enormously influential things it's going to do, this thing is unsafe until you can convince me that it's safe." HOST: “That’s a good way of thinking about it - with some technologies you can assume that the default will be good or at least neutral, or that the capacity of a person to use this in a very bad way is bounded somehow. There's just only so many people you could electrocute one by one."

@robertskmiles @ilex_ulmus Can we ever have that? Does that require a super intelligence that can never be controlled?

@ilex_ulmus Not literally forever, but I want to die on my own terms, when I decide to and not before

Is AI Safety important to you? | Is the chance to live forever assisted by AI among the most important reasons you care about AI Safety?

@RyanMcbeth Mancuso

What should I go with? Gordon Freeman? Captain Mancuso? Ryan McBeth

People always ask me “what can I do about legislation” This is a 3 second, no cost, high impact way of letting our government know people care about crypto

If it has to be one or the other, would you rather that your nation split into more smaller nations, or merge with other nations into fewer larger nations?

@robinhanson I don’t even get the question. Can you ask this question in 8th grade terms?

Humans have an "egalitarian" impulse to favor the down side of various up-down axes, such as re wealth, gender, race, extraversion, etc. On average, do we act on this impulse too much or too little?

I expect superintelligent AI [will/won’t] happen soonish (say, within 20 years) / I am [pro-/anti-] open source AI

@Noahpinion PHDs have to be very tough to recoup, especially outside of Econ.

Most interesting is the big drop among advanced degree holders. Overpaid for that MBA? PhD crushed your soul?

Wow.

@profoundlyyyy @telmudic Tribalism. It’s in our genes.

@sentientist Valuing every human life equally is the only way to make large societies work. Otherwise, who gets to decide the relative value? Everyone - including worst Nazis and their ilk - deserves some minimum standard for human rights and dignity.

@dissproportion pan on medium/high heat Wait till hot Oil Chopped onions, cayenne pepper, fenugreek Cook for 5-10 min Ginger and garlic Wait a couple min chopped zucchini and squash Lots of curry power and garam masala Cover for 2 min tomatoes Cover for 15 min Coconut milk (optional) (5 min)

My neighbor keeps giving me these things. What do I do???

@AshleyDCan @krassenstein I'm not a vegan, but I've been cutting way back on calories. Iron and Calcium have been difficult. Gotta have kale, broccoli, and lentils like it's your job to keep those numbers up.

@krassenstein I was a vegan for 4 years, and my doctor told me I had to switch back because I had become sick and anemic. Doesn’t happen to everyone but not everyone is built to be vegan, as it is very hard to get your proper amount of protein and iron without meat. Plus I love bacon 🤭

I'm all for the message of PETA, and the ethical treatment of animals, but wouldn't a PETA supporter have to choose between eating animals and eating natural carbon capture devices? It could be argued that at this point in time carbon capture is more important than disrupting the natural human food chain that began nearly 200,000 years ago. In all seriousness humans should not be fighting over doing something we have done for 200k years, but I do suggest cutting down on your intake of red meat so that you can live longer and put off your own death and suffering a few more years.

If I had billions of dollars to deploy like @HoldenKarnofsky or @moskov, a no brainer for me would be commissioning an HBO / Max educational/interview series on AI alignment hosted by @robertskmiles. And I’d also pour money on marketing for it.

@TheNotARubicon @PicturesFoIder Turn off that fcking radio!!

@PicturesFoIder "Swallow it!"

Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Fucking Fink.

@VivekGRamaswamy I've offered to be your defense consultant before. Please check with me before tweeting stuff like this. It's misinformation. MOSes like 88D (rail ops) are only in the reserves. They are only asking for 450 IRR volunteers probably for logistics. youtube.com/shorts/ePIRKrN…