Aidan@limosalapponica
Joined June 2016
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Diana carving out an interesting niche as an effective altruist who’s apparently indifferent to human suffering
Diana S. Fleischman
@sentientist
Oct 5
The shrimp actually want help though
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Absolute mess, a series of words which are all related to the topic at hand but are not obviously arranged in any intentional manner. Hard to even say what it gets wrong because it's so incoherent throughout. Let's start with the bizarre definition of sentience:
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
Sep 29
spencer roberts offers a useful reminder that machines are not sentient currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
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More straight-up nonsense:
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There's just no argument presented. None of it makes any sense for even a second. I don't understand how anyone could read this and think to publish it. Isn't Nathan J Robinson smart? What's happening?
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Hard to imagine that there's anything to be said about wokeness that could possibly be worth paying for, at this point.
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NYC DSA posting AI-generated bad takes about AI...interesting.
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And what textbook did you read that in?
kate wehwalt
@mcmansionhell
Sep 19
the concept of writing an essay confessing to committing a textbook case of emotional incest
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Absolutely lethal observation from Aidan on Kantians: you can never trust a Kantian because you never know when they’re being sincere or just fiddling with their maxims.
Andrew Orlowski
@AndrewOrlowski
Sep 16
An absolutely lethal observation from @CarissaVeliz on Effective Altruists.
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If people can’t offer better criticism of EA very soon then I’m seriously going to have to give away a kidney
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Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81. nyti.ms/4hrp9BD

Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

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The problem with rationalists simply cannot be that they aren't smart or thoughtful.
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet
Sep 15
I simply do not think the posters of LessWrong are generally smart and thoughtful as compared to the rest of society, for what that's worth.
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Semi-common Matt Yglesias W
Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
Sep 14
If you work in AI and are concerned about safety you can’t *just* tweet and sign open letters, you need to use your leverage at work to change the constellation of lobbying forces. slowboring.com/p/a-simple-pl…
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With a dash of evolutionary psychology-inspired speculation about my enemy's hidden motives 😉
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart
Sep 14
It must feel so good to analyze people's behavior from a "game theoretic" standpoint.
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This from @jon_stewartmill hits the familiar substack beats - Soviets bad, GA Cohen, Hayek - but for some reason leaves out discussion of Nordic socialism. I take most of its points, but I don't think it's very compelling w/o treatment of the Nordics. desertphilosophy.substack.co…
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I don't think this works as a rebuttal of market socialism. Presumably the average DSA member is not very interested in implementing the License Raj, but would endorse something closer to Nordic socialism.
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This point is more interesting to me - maybe markets + public ownership can't actually satisfy socialists' stated goals. But seems implausable that converting the US economy to ultra-Nordic socialism would count as "little progress" on socialist terms.
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