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affectiveautism
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🧵In 2019, California billionaire tax crusader Gabriel Zucman made an astonishing claim to the NY Times: billionaires pay a lower avg tax rate than poor people in the US.
I noticed something fishy though: Zucman's NYT chart did not match his own published data from a 2018 paper
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The only way to make any sense of what housing activists say is to model the world as “apartments just exist” and “entropy is the fault of the landlord.”
You have to start with, “ok, housing just exists” and then treat it as though the only argument left is about who gets to be in charge of it.
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People often say that they don’t want to have kids because of all the cool stuff they get to do, but this is masking that they don’t actually enjoy life itself. If you enjoy life — like, if you’re on fire with love of life — it makes you want to have children, not go to brunch.
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Most mathematicians could not, in fact, become quants or ai scientists making millions of dollars a year. The skillsets are overlapping, but not at all subsets.
The mathematicians complaining about AI are just another group of weaklings who don't like progress.
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Marco Rubio: “We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average.”
.@SecRubio: "Too often, these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure that no one will lose. We preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average."
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The future light cone of discoveries rounds up to 100% engineering, as the set of physics rules that govern our reality is very tiny compared to what can be done with those rules.
The reason I didn’t choose a career in physics, my favorite subject, is that I would be stuck waiting for a new collider or telescope. Better to advance technologies that ultimately enable discovery of new physics.
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lesser known yud tweet wherein he reveals he thinks circumcisions are worse than infanticide
teapaw.org/ESYudkowsky/status/130…
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fun game to play is ask any AI what Yuds greatest research contribution was
no matter the result ask it "isn't this just trivial for the much more serious and deep prisoners dilemma research decades ago?" and it'll agree
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the antidote to this mealy mouthed defense of the most ridiculous corruption scandal in recent history is for you to find one example of a16z, nvidia, or LtF not disclosing their employer or lying about doing paid PR
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From @WSJopinion: The Hugging Face hack wasn’t what it was cracked up to be. Forget the “hive mind” of AI agents “going rogue.” They did what humans programmed them to do, writes Brian Gross.
on.wsj.com/3Tgmxx4
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The traits that make individuals successful within a system are not necessarily the traits that can build or maintain good systems. Defectors are successful in a tribe full of cooperators, until their numbers grow so large there’s nothing left to steal.
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Imagine classifying Effective Altruism as a "philosophy". It's a weird little sci-fi cult. Yudkowsky isn't a modern day Aristotle, he's the heir to L Ron Hubbard, and Dario is his dysgenic Tom Cruise.
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BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks
🧵 with help from @lumpenspace
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Wow…Roland Fryer and @BillAckman have created a $1 million prize for academic truth-telling, the Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage.
“The prize awards $1 million each to as many as five social scientists a year who have demonstrated intellectual independence, published findings that were attacked rather than answered, and been validated by the evidence—despite the professional cost. The selection criteria are designed to distinguish courage from contrarianism: Nominees must show a sustained commitment to following logic and evidence regardless of pressure, a willingness to ask questions others avoid, and work that has shifted academic debate, public discourse or policy—often despite being misread, mischaracterized or vilified at the time of publication.”
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I’m proud to announce that for the first time in my memory, ALL of the news reported today (10 separate items) were stories with a POSITIVE tone.
Usually about half the stories I report carry a negative tone - deaths, shootings, natural disasters - but today, only good news.