Fraser

Read your Adler, Cuddihy, and Nietzsche, ffs. 🤦‍♂️

[decelerates from 0.85c into a stable orbit around your homeworld] Hello!!!!!!!!!!! I will be in San Francisco from the 19th to the 29th of March. Let's hang out!

Three general things from this AMA: 1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but…I don’t. This seems like an important area for more discussion. 2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven’t seen quite articulated: What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAI or other AI efforts? I obviously don’t know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn’t seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important. 3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don’t think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen. Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here. It was not what I expected.

Not a good day for genuine incels like myself

ages 18 to 24 are weird. some friends can’t drive, some are still vírgins, some are dating, some are getting married, some already have kids, and some still need to ask their parents if they can stay out after 10 pm