@goblinodds its a horseshoe, and the center is precisely the furthest from the ends you can go
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just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe
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every time i try to drag myself to the center i get whacked on the head with another sign that ive let myself be frogboiled for too long
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if the democratic party treated this
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with the same horror and contempt as this
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i might begin to take them seriously
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@binarybits @gmiller @deanwball "This is the correct view of existential risk from AI" has not been earned
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@binarybits @gmiller @deanwball sure theres plenty of knowledge darkmatter, but most of that is either not necessarily to move the worlds levers, or make irrelevant by replacing, or actually not that hard to find out through attention and surveillance, if necessary
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This is the correct view of existential risk from AI, and I'm glad @deanwball sees the same connection to Hayek's thinking that I do.
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I think it was @eigenrobot who said that rationalists fear a hyper-intelligent AI because they're the only ones in the world who can be convinced to do absolutely anything by a sufficiently well written persuasive essay.
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It did not destroy an entire generation. I am part of that generation and I was never stupid enough to think any of this was a good idea.
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That one Gwern Nicotine article destroyed an entire generation. Smart people have a tendency to think being able to intellectualize something will save them from the exact same fate as every other participant.
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the wild horse being smaller than the domesticated horse is a narrative violation and thematically very crucial
Hoops@Hoopss
Domestic horse meeting a Przewalski’s horse, the last truly wild horse species on Earth.
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I want to scream “I told you so” in several directions at high volume
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@loftbruk on top of which it does seem like a lot of the insanity is just accelerating on a personal level. i think a lot of us (for sure me) have lost close friends *recently* to, for lack of a better term, TDS. (as in: theyve dumped us for not being clearly enough On Their Side)
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interesting to me how i frequently hear (and am personally experiencing) things along the lines of "ugh i'm right wing now i did not want this"
this is seems to be very specific to the right
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@goblinodds I haven't! I'll have to watch it now to increase my predictive powers
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@loftbruk this was how the lady trump reminded me of acted about everything. 'course she might also have been a narcissist!
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@loftbruk i think it actually does lol it's this whole rough and tumble "the law only matters if it can do something for me, everything is negotiable" attitude
(actually have you seen Clueless lol i think the lawyer dad is a version of this)
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@loftbruk yeah so i think it turns out that we have a laws a sufficiently hostile actor can weaponize
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@loftbruk but turns out we cant actually just construct a perfect legal machine to govern for us. the actual leaders in power do matter. i used to think they didnt but this was when they cared enough about the spirit of the law to try to maintain it!
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@goblinodds despite despite my horse solidly winning the election, I fully anticipated trumps attempt to hold onto power, and did not feel at ease until he was fully out of the white house on Jan 20
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@goblinodds lol well here's a question- does trashy new yorker theory predict stop the count, and jan 6? narcissistic do only whats good for trump theory does
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@goblinodds and his second impeachment was ofc for trying to end the cycle of democracy, by declaring himself the victor with forged documents and fraudulent electors. I'm a single issue voter on this point. I will never let it go
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@goblinodds he was impeached (the first time) for using congressionally approved aid to ukraine as a personal bargaining chip to extort Zelensky into starting a scandal against his political rival at the time- candidate joe biden
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@goblinodds I have to imagine that republicans know that when they choose trump, they're injecting poison directly into the veins of the political environment. they're actively choosing to further inflame
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@goblinodds a defection from the republican side that has truly no analog from the left. the right has never had to live under a leftist version of trump. there's not just no attempt from Trump to be a president for all americans, theres an active effort to divide and antagonize
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