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I've had The Surgery (The Surgery, of course, being FFS) and I'm getting another surgery (ribcage remodeling), and of course I want to get double-jaw surgery next year,
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Fundamentally X is a product built for/around the unwashed masses of the app and not for the vaunted poster class.
Things like sports-posting (the lowest cognitive-tier of posting) have had multiple updates over the years instead of things like "saving drafts correctly".
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Re: labor disruptions: we're going to see a lot of the old "it's not happening" and "it's good that it is."
A paradox in pro-AI rhetoric is that they want to tout the idea of massive productivity benefits (not just random slop) but deny massive labor market disruptions, when I don't think it's possible to have one without the other.
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The thing I hate about poly circles is that as a woman it feels inescapable that I am seen and treated as a sex object.
When I work with more professional industries, I can be an ice queen, and the relationship stays professional. When I'm in tech, at least I can say "I'm taken" and we keep the focus on the tech.
In settings where everyone's poly, suddenly, I am unable to work 1:1 with a man on anything without things feeling a little slimy, and the greater social vibes start feeling cruising mixed with a Hobbesian all-against-all of female intrasexual competition.
Like, I was talking about game theory, why am I suddenly receiving a shoulder massage I didn't ask for?
Reminded of this passage from Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, and Plato's Republic about the necessity of modesty for women's participation in public life.
this is a huge part of why making events like this a central part of your community is bad. it creates a culture that is toxic and hostile to women
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I did this analysis, only based on 42 meetings, but still interesting that majority of Democrats that we met with support Pause-style regulations (based on our volunteer's reporting), and Republicans are evenly split across support/oppose/neutral.
Let's keep pro-human regulation a bipartisan issue! Us vs. the machines.
Interesting volunteer-reported data from our latest PauseCon: AI pause appears to be a bipartisan issue.
Caveat that this is from a small sample of 42 Congressional Office meetings.
66% of Democratic offices and 38% of Republican offices were supportive of Pause-style AI regulation. This is based on feedback from our volunteers, who met with their Congressional Offices on September 14th and 15th.
31% of Republicans and 28% of Democrats were neutral.
31% of Republicans and 7% of Democrats were opposed.
Democrat responses were consistent across the House and Senate, but the Republicans were a different story.
In the Senate, a 57% majority supported Pause-like regulation, and 43% opposed, with zero neutrals.
In the House, a 67% majority of Republicans were neutral, with the rest evenly divided in support and oppose.
This was a small sample, but the story from this data is that Republicans are roughly evenly split across Support, Neutral, and Oppose, whereas Democrats have a Support supermajority. The Senate appears to be more AI risk aware than the House.
This is specifically for Pause-style AI regulation, so we assume that the support for any regulation overall is higher.
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Methodology: On September 14th and 15th, PauseAI US volunteers met with 42 Congressional Offices, 29 Democratic and 13 Republican. After the meetings our volunteers filled out a survey were they assessed the Office’s position on Pause-style regulation on AI.
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The world described here would be phenomenally unjust and unfree. It would make most hitherto-known despotisms look humane.
Hear me out. The value of human labor is trending toward zero.
Some of the most talented people I've ever worked with can't find jobs right now.
And the people who don't see what's coming are responding the exact wrong way. More degrees. More certificates. More skills. The belief that if they make themselves more valuable to an employer, they'll be safe.
This is not the way.
The world is dividing into two classes: the labor class and the asset class.
The only way out is owning assets.
Scrimp. Save. Convert every dollar you can into things that can't be inflated away. Gold. Land. Bitcoin. To a lesser extent, stocks.
Investing in the value of your own labor is a great way to go broke slowly.
If you do invest in your skills, do it for exactly one reason: to convert that labor into assets as fast as humanly possible.
Labor is the on-ramp. Assets are the only way out.
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Advanced AI will inaugurate a regime of pure incumbency and an end to social mobility.
If you think being able to go as far as your talents will take you is an essential part of a just and free society, then AI is the technological incarnation of injustice and unfreedom.
Hear me out. The value of human labor is trending toward zero.
Some of the most talented people I've ever worked with can't find jobs right now.
And the people who don't see what's coming are responding the exact wrong way. More degrees. More certificates. More skills. The belief that if they make themselves more valuable to an employer, they'll be safe.
This is not the way.
The world is dividing into two classes: the labor class and the asset class.
The only way out is owning assets.
Scrimp. Save. Convert every dollar you can into things that can't be inflated away. Gold. Land. Bitcoin. To a lesser extent, stocks.
Investing in the value of your own labor is a great way to go broke slowly.
If you do invest in your skills, do it for exactly one reason: to convert that labor into assets as fast as humanly possible.
Labor is the on-ramp. Assets are the only way out.
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The tech right has nothing to do with conservatism; rather, it constitutes a particularly virulent strain of progressivism that is flatly inconsistent with small-d democratic American traditions.
They are, as I called them a couple years ago, "right-wing progressives."
The backlash against data centers is reinforcing the tech bros who think of democracy as an impediment to tech progress. They want a tech dictatorship. trib.al/2lLeed5
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This is also my observation - and I think it's an aspect of why there is a recurring accusation that EA orgs "target vulnerable people"
If you are filtering people on whether they can easily walk away from the rest of their lives, then many of those people will be vulnerable!
I’m not sure the details are right but IMO EA org hiring processes often do adversely select for people who don’t have high opportunity cost
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The vocabulary IQ test had a number of errors like this. "Millinery" does not mean "a type of hat"; it means "the business and work of a milliner," and by extension, "women's hats as an area of fashion."
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planes do in fact generate lift by pushing the air down; and if you don't believe this you can go near an active runway, stand under the flight path, and you will feel a burst of downward moving air after each plane passes: that's the air that gets pushed down.
(tired of the current discourse, trying to start a new one) the bernoulli principle is not real. planes generate lift by pushing the air down.
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but stand underneath an runway flight path and you'll quite literally feel the air that gets slammed down to keep airplanes in the air.
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if only you knew how bad things were
Code doesn’t have feelings, rights, or standing, and never should. If people cannot keep their heads on straight it is not unreasonable to conclude that the most powerful technology in the history of the world should not be run by those who see humanity as an open question.
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