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First they came for the epistemology. We don't know what happened after that.

Shows how irrelevantly slowly the courts are moving compared to the events determining our lives these days. We need automated courts to work through legal challenges at the speed of software or we'll essentially be confronting the Singularity in a lawless world.

Pushing back AGI while giving us cool but limited toys is an amazing win for humanity. Path dependency Accelerationism has never before been this beneficial.

Mapping the paths by which people evolve into them. There are varied clusters of behavior with different attractors. But it should be easy to distinguish them from one another statistically. People are barely using LLMs to model language but that’s most of what they are good for.

Could be a lot more generous than that. How much food do we actually want to make freely available to everyone almost a century after the government started destroying food to raise prices. I would be thrilled to pay 1% of my income to contribute to that and not mad at 5%.

It was also a way to create a permanent state of exception and preserve the military mobilization of the Second World War until the prior way of life was forgotten and the new elite had become permanent one.

Both optimism and pessimism are types of choosing to be wrong for perceived social benefit.

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It’s time for Israel to bail out Ukraine in exchange for their part of our traditional homeland in the Russian Pale. A secular Jewish Nationalism has no justification for restricting its territorial ambitions on the base of biblical claims.

Can anyone steelman for me the implied epistemology here? “ 22: Effective altruists have been funding teams working on lab-grown meat for almost a decade now. Around 2020, they hired some experts to double-check that this was possible in principle, and the experts wrote scathing analyses saying it was cost-ineffective by so many orders of magnitude that it was basically a pipe dream. Reactions were mixed, but a lot of us beat ourselves up and vowed to be less gullible next time. But now a new report comes out arguing that the previous reports were wrong, that lab-grown meat production is going much better than the earlier reports thought possible, and it’s more or less cost-effective already for the simplest products! Again, mixed reactions, and although some of the numbers are indisputable the analysis itself this is by a VC firm with lab-based meat investments. Here are some related Metaculus questions.”

You get that AOC was recently cancelled for not being antisemitic enough to satisfy her political allies, right?

First they came for the epistemology. We don't know what happened after that.

Pushing back AGI while giving us cool but limited toys is an amazing win for humanity. Path dependency Accelerationism has never before been this beneficial.

Shows how irrelevantly slowly the courts are moving compared to the events determining our lives these days. We need automated courts to work through legal challenges at the speed of software or we'll essentially be confronting the Singularity in a lawless world.

Both optimism and pessimism are types of choosing to be wrong for perceived social benefit.

Link has been removed.

Can anyone steelman for me the implied epistemology here? “ 22: Effective altruists have been funding teams working on lab-grown meat for almost a decade now. Around 2020, they hired some experts to double-check that this was possible in principle, and the experts wrote scathing analyses saying it was cost-ineffective by so many orders of magnitude that it was basically a pipe dream. Reactions were mixed, but a lot of us beat ourselves up and vowed to be less gullible next time. But now a new report comes out arguing that the previous reports were wrong, that lab-grown meat production is going much better than the earlier reports thought possible, and it’s more or less cost-effective already for the simplest products! Again, mixed reactions, and although some of the numbers are indisputable the analysis itself this is by a VC firm with lab-based meat investments. Here are some related Metaculus questions.”

It was also a way to create a permanent state of exception and preserve the military mobilization of the Second World War until the prior way of life was forgotten and the new elite had become permanent one.

Mapping the paths by which people evolve into them. There are varied clusters of behavior with different attractors. But it should be easy to distinguish them from one another statistically. People are barely using LLMs to model language but that’s most of what they are good for.

Having a Claude conversation about how this may entitle you to civic damages.

Could be a lot more generous than that. How much food do we actually want to make freely available to everyone almost a century after the government started destroying food to raise prices. I would be thrilled to pay 1% of my income to contribute to that and not mad at 5%.