Research Fellow @joinFAI; opinions mine not theirs | Working to make US transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, & less safe | prev: Econ & CS @UChicago
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This one was fun. Because it's adaptive, most of the test is right at your level of ability, so it's neither boring nor overly challe ging (though I will say that a few of the hardest ones I was entirely guessing)
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I understand why there’s a pro AI/Data Center camp. Purely from an economic and financial standpoint it makes sense. I’m not sure they however have any theory of mind whatsoever for why Americans aren’t all over it.
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you think that the fact that scale can make seemingly trivial things matter more is a “shallow party trick”?
idk man that sounds like a woke argument for safetyism to me
The EA/Rationalist shtick of using massive scale ("10^10000 freaking shrimp!") to try at short-circuiting moral intuitions is a shallow parlor trick.
You wouldn't think they'd find it so endlessly fascinating, but they do. It's like being obsessed with the lore of Super Mario.
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well that’s either a “avoid the hypothetical” or a misread: you can buy as many tickets as you want and specify which color.
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ok here’s a lottery: 100 tickets, $1 each, 50 red 50 blue. i roll a d20 you can't see, then draw from whatever you didn't buy. red: 10^(10^roll) people are kicked in the shin. blue: i kill a guy
after the roll i'll buy back any ticket for 50¢. how many tickets are you buying?
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to double down, you should be drinking clear alcohols mixed with zero calorie mixers (seltzer or diet soda)
alcohol itself contains some calories, but only like 100 per standard drink. there’s no need to make it worse than it needs to be
Alcohol is the #1 obstacle to weight loss. Just one beer is 200 calories. That means the average person is consuming over 4,000 extra calories every single workday
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it also, of course, doesn’t address the actual problem at all. i’ll just pick another absurd thing to crank to infinity through the tails.
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I’m not sure whether this is a joke or not but an important question for reading the Bible or any religious text should be “is this what an all-knowing and all-loving God who designed the world as we know it to be *really* mean this”
I think I changed my mind on homosexuality (and all sexuality) being a sin. I think *only* bisexuality is a sin. A homosexual does not "lie with a man *as with* a woman."
Notably, marital bisexuality is functionally (ergo by nature) monosexual.
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my heuristic here is the donut. a donut is like 270 calories. would you rather have 3 beers, or 3 shots of vodka with a mixer and then a donut?
for me, the donut wins every time. drinking calories without noticing is way easier than eating them
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median american voters: 75-25 against AI. Hate cheaper managerial work, hate platonically ideal suburban development
dc bureaucrats: let's throw a big pro-datacenter party and tell everyone about it on the internet!
maybe they're right about us "beltway insiders"
JUST IN: 900+ people are set to attend a “pro-data center party” in Washington, D.C. tonight, featuring AI-themed cocktails & a generative AI photo booth.
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“that would alarm the average citizen”—wow, that’s terrible. Those guys are so smart and well informed. I really care how they feel about things.
NEW: Dario Amodei has said that AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI may be "justified in going rogue." Experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade." So do some government officials.
Once relegated to science fiction, the idea of "AI welfare" has become shockingly mainstream at some of the most powerful companies in the world. It is changing the way AI research is conducted and the way models are programmed. And critics say these changes have raised the odds of all kinds of catastrophic scenarios—including the ones these companies are warning about.
I spent months investigating the frontier labs and AI "safety" experts seeking to regulate AI. What I found was a profoundly anti-human ideology that would alarm the average citizen and could determine the future of a world-altering technology.🧵
freebeacon.com/america/suici…
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