@robinhanson chatgpt's predictions re: what the new equilibrium would look like if this became a norm
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Agnes Callard
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Agnes Callard
@AgnesCallard
Philosopher, UChicago New book: https://t.co/1wJAwQKXSX Point https://t.co/GGvu8fPwc4 NYT https://t.co/Jj56TEDpsL podcast https://t.co/lVDi53De3Z
Profile pic by Zoë van Dijk Katılım Nisan 2018
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When X blocks Y, X should write some text visible to Y explaining the reason.
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@ConvergeToTruth I'm giving a talk in Milwaukee on 11/7, that's a bit closer...?
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@ConvergeToTruth oops thanks will repost, I got today's day wrong!
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@robinhanson "everyone has profound equal dignity but some of us are more profoundly dignified than others"
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Seems there are pretty big disagreements on what exactly "dignity" entails in how people are to be treated.
Robert P. George@McCormickProf
There are two and only two sides, it seems to me: those who affirm the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of each and every member of the human family, and those who do not. Whether we label ourselves "conservative" (as I label myself) or something else is not of ultimate importance. What matters is which side of the fundamental division we are on.
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@robinhanson I asked ChatGPT, it gave multiple answers, but I selected this one as best: "A human retrieves one salient answer and discards the rest; an LLM activates many partially relevant associations at once and tends to express several of them."
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LLMs seem to me to give much longer answers than a human would to the same question. Why? A suggestive analogy: Students unsure of exam answers often write overly long essays, hoping that something in them will get partial credit.
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@mikerosenwald Lovely obituary, it captures a lot about him, thank you for writing it
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Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.
nytimes.com/2025/10/08/boo…
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@DavidPinsof Intelligence, arrogance(this problem can’t defeat me!), inquisitiveness (really wanting to know answers)?
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@AgnesCallard Do you have other variables in mind that you think are more important than these personality traits?
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People with good ideas really need to learn how to write well. If they don’t, their good ideas will be defeated by well-written bad ideas.
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@DavidPinsof plausible to me that those traits are correlated with avoiding a small set of specific kinds of bad ideas, but not much more than that--that is, they seem very far from anything like necessary or sufficient for good ideas
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@AgnesCallard Not if it stems from an innate personality trait, like high "decoupling" or being on the mild end of the autism spectrum or something.
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@default_friend Ok! I came SO CLOSE to raising my hand during @Aella_Girl 'a final rebuttal to ask whether there were any identical twin studies on fetishes, had to tell myself, "BEHAVE!"--was sorry to have to run off at the end but had to be home for kids' bedtime
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@AgnesCallard next time we need YOU on the stage!!! If you ever have any ideas let me know
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@RizomaSchool yup, they are open to the public, our 1st two for the upcoming academic year are 9/29, Bladerunner at Doc films 6pm, & 8pm 10/30 @LedermanHarvey on ChatGPT & the meaning of life--I'll announce the events here on twitter
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@DavidPinsof whatever was the good thinkers' incentive for producing good ideas, don't the good writers have that?
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@AgnesCallard Yes, though I think the problem with that route is that there’s less of an incentive for good writers to learn good ideas, bc they can gain just as much (if not more) status with well-written bad ideas. But good thinkers can gain status with better writing.
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@AgnesCallard @megantheevalium lmao I was gonna say I wouldn’t imagine you missing this version of Night Owls.
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@megantheevalium Surprised Agnes Callard is not rolling up to this.
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@winnie4prez This was great, thanks! Let me know if you’d be up for a zoom convo to discuss your objections!
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I wrote a (critical) review of @AgnesCallard's book, Open Socrates!
It also has a pretty lengthy summary of the main theses, which I'm quite proud of :-)
let me know what you think xx
open.substack.com/pub/escapingth…
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It's hard to define words. But one good sign you're doing it wrong is when your definition leads to revisionary statements that catch everyone off-guard.
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It is now clear that a great deal of the power associated with left-wing cultural energy and institutional dominance has been won by the right. This is something people like me always warned progressives about during the woke era, which is on its way to being well and truly over.
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@robinhanson ah, that was not clear from your post!
I thought you were just making the descriptive point, and I suspect many other readers thought the same.
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@AgnesCallard And I'm questioning the normative claim that humans should never be mean to humans.
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Why do people say that if you humiliate or deprive or mistreat a group, you are "dehumanizing" them? Seems that's a thing humans quite often want to do to other humans.
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@robinhanson true of many, prob most gifts, eg complex jigsaw puzzle, season tickets, even a gift certificate to a restaurant...
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One reason to dislike this is that it takes you much more effort to legit accept their gift, by reading it, than it took them to give it to you.
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Anyone else ever get a birthday "gift" from a family member who disagrees with your politics of a book that rants in favor of their politics?
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