young_opsimath ⏸️

@gazorpazorp28 @svarasura @ryancbriggs I disagree with your entire model of the world. I think you have landed on exactly all the wrong casual factors.

@chicfryrice @bubbleboi Median H1B earns $120K, median American wage is ~$65K

@bubbleboi They just want cheap labor that’s all it is.

“It’s already difficult to find good engineers” Agreed. I’ve had a LOT of trouble convincing several Berkeley, Caltech, & Stanford PhDs with specialties in photonics, nano fabrication, and metamaterials to turn down tenure track professor job offers to join my company as well. Oh … wait. What do you guys do? An AI app for note taking? And you can’t find people who can write Python?

@herbivoryze 1. You need a team, some credence 2. Connection with professionals who have thought about the problem 3. A really solid pitch, why this conference should happen, what it aims to achieve, etc 4. Funding, Navigation Fund is maybe your best bet contingent on 1-3 being fulfilled

What would it take to organize an international conference on the predation problem and how to solve it?

@Im_actuallyacat @1a3orn I'm sure the book's authors are not 100% certain

Finished MIRI book. Many quite invalid arguments. Will do longer reviews later. It does kinda appear to me that the "someone genuinely skeptical of the argument" was not among the beta readers. Just feels overworkshopped with friendly readers.

@__mihir What about those who go to Claude huh

Slur for people who go to ChatGPT for everything "chaggot"

@smugjd @MariGO2thepolls If a "ton" of us were, I would've seen it or heard about it during IRL meet ups and conferences. Further, those discussions would have dominated the forum, shaped community events and goals, etc. Seems plausible that your perception is majorly skewed by online chatter.

What are groups ppl only hate cuz their obvious superiority makes other ppl insecure? EAs abd vegans are the obvious ones. But im sure there are others

@medjedowo @AndyMasley Nope

@AndyMasley this logic drove a not insignificant amount of people to EA didn't it

I keep scrolling by people saying that withholding resources other people need to live is “also a form of political violence” and the funny logical endpoint of this is “It’s political violence to not be an effective altruist”

@trist_cole @realalpha2000 I guess higher religiosity makes cooperation harder. Anyway, I'm sure there is someone out there who fits the constraints, good luck.

Phrased this way, it sounds beautiful 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@NothingIsArt Tbf, better than life in the wild

@a_musingcat Based on priors, probably a nut job with a vague right lean but opinions all over the place

@robertwiblin Data collection/methodology artifact?

The global fertility rate suddenly started falling 4.5x faster in 2016. (Slope of -0.009 from 2006-2016, then -0.041 from 2016-2023!)

@austinc3301 @ludwigABAP She's tried so hard to make it her thing! People just don't care as much about the AI RiSk iNdUsTrIaL cOmpLeX and are rightly spooked about AI

@ludwigABAP "they exist because they can capture the attention of groups large enough that they can to strive" Wait till you hear what Nirit does for a living!

levels of grift that are incomprehensible to people who are honest and can’t conceptualize how 6D chess is played People like Yud provide no value, they exist because they can capture the attention of groups large enough that they can to strive, but take away the idiots he manages to convince and what is left of Yud except Harry Potter fanfiction?

@funnyjaye125691 @panickssery Ok, but Noah, Yglesias, and Klein constantly talk about correcting economic failures. Yglesias has definitely written about demographic concerns. It's more likely that they believe social media is one of many issues that leads to right wing surges, but not the only one!

The extreme Internet censorship we see in Britain and elsewhere was totally predictable and if Harris was elected we would have seen agitation for it here Our own "smart liberals" Yglesias, Klein, Smith, Shor, etc push the same narrative that unregulated social media, rather than economic or demographic concerns, is to blame for right-wing surges, and endorse govt censorship they can cement their control over the discourse—politicians follow their lead Harris, 2019: "We will double the civil rights division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms" This is the most dangerous threat to our civil liberties in America because it could permanently cripple discourse about the issues with our governance (the Yglesias article below was originally titled "How to Regulate Facebook and Twitter" before it was changed)

@FeralPHunter Turns out it's literally true x.com/jayvanbavel/st…

i have theory that The Algorithm exposes you to more of the worst parts of your outgroup than your outgroup sees and this does absolutely terrible things for communication and theory of mind

A take: LinkedIn is the healthiest social media platform right now. Hot take: We should Linkedin-ify all social media. Yes, it's a good thing when every other post is not a video of someone dying!