I don’t think I have ever seen that explanation work on someone who is misinformed, but if I am proven wrong then the world will be a better place.

I phone banked for Harris but she was making our jobs harder by taking unpopular positions. What will you have me say to the voter who won’t vote for a Newsom presidency because they take AIPAC money? Because I was told to just move on and call the next person.

His donation pledge was more of a flex because he’s increased his net worth more than he has donated. Also, people who were friends with Epstein should not get to decide where that money goes.

The guy is on the Epstein list and his wife left him because he was too friendly to the guy…

He also fucked over our public education system

Ehh, China is increasingly caring about it’s international image, and there’s always backroom deals.

After reading the Epstein emails: But why would investors invest in something they can’t literally fuck?

I want to take this argument of efficiency in a different direction. First, two key observations: the system doing the simulation will never be as efficient as the system being modeled. Second a conscious system is aware of it’s own efficiency. This means even if you simulate a whole human body to create consciousness it will not have the same quality. It will either be aware of all the extra resources required to create “self” or fed a simulation of self that hides it’s own nature and thus cannot be self aware.

I am seeing ads where businesses will try to influence AI to recommend your brand. I don’t know if they actually work but it strikes me as everything we hate about SEO but shoved into every facet and interface that a capitalist owns.

Let me see if I got this right: Because use cases for LLMs have to be resilient to hallucinations, large data centers will fall out of favor for smaller, cheaper deployments at the cost of accuracy. And once you have a business that is categorizing relevant data, you will gradually move away from black box LLMs and towards ML on the edge to cut costs and also at the cost of accuracy.

They have a hard time admitting they don’t understand something, so it must be very very complicated when they don’t. Pairs with not being a good communicator, which is what this guy was lamenting about.

It’s still telling you what you want to hear but with a different aesthetic. This will always be the case for systems that can’t even perceive it’s own lies.

It is also true people benefited from Obama’s DACA program. This isn’t a simple trolley problem let alone a single track

I’ll just tell that to my brother in law who just got released from ICE custody. Like I know this picture is probably true for Gaza, but it isn’t for many of my neighbors and family.

Is this because they want Russia to take the peace deal?

Klatch

There’s being rich and then there’s being wealthy. Being wealthy means you can fuck up everyday and still be rich.

“So anyways I built a new language luan and you are a bad person if you don’t appreciate it”

Eliezer, given the immense capacity of the human mind for self-delusion, it is entirely possible for someone to genuinely believe they’re being 100% altruistic even when it’s not the case. Since you know this, how then can you be so sure that you’re being entirely altruistic?

Because I didn’t wake up one morning and decide “Gee, I’m entirely altruistic”, or follow any of the other patterns that are the straightforward and knowable paths into delusive self-overestimation, nor do I currently exhibit any of the straightforward external signs which are the distinguishing marks of such a pattern. I know a lot about the way that the human mind tends to overestimate its own altruism.

Fun to unpack this here. First is the argument that we should be dismissive of any professed act of altruism unless someone is perfectly knowable. There is an interesting point here completely missed: even if the person knows themselves well enough to make the claim, others cannot possibly know another well enough to make the claim of another. Instead what we get is “trust me bro” because being contrarian is evidence of being on the correct path 🙄. We went from “we can’t possibly know another well enough to say they are altruist” to “I know when people are not altruist because they are predictable, but I am unpredictable therefore I am altruist”. I think this touches on the manipulation present in the community: you are either being manipulated and therefore cannot be an altruist because your motives are not your own (are you even selfish at this point?), OR you are contrarian enough to show you are in control of your own motives (nevermind we still can’t say whether your motives are altruistic). This is a very surface level read, I can’t bring myself to read all that slop. Parts are so redundant it feels like it was written by AI.

BuT aT wHaT cOsT?

I’m hoping it’s Global Hegemony.

It’s a shrewd move as the global south will be feeling the worst effects of climate change and China is the only country that’s offering infrastructure based on renewables at scale.