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>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save lives >numbers look good >feel powerful >couple years later >someone asks an innocent question >why only count people alive today >huh >future people matter too >obviously >my grandchildren shouldn't matter less just because they haven't spawned yet >reasonable.jpg >keep following logic >what about their grandchildren >also yes >what about people in 500 years >sure >5000 years >why not >500 million years >starting to get weird but morality is morality >open calculator >humanity could survive for an astronomically long time >could colonize galaxy >could have trillions upon trillions of descendants >maybe digital people too >maybe simulated civilizations >maybe dyson spheres full of happy uploaded minds >calculator starts smoking >realize currently living humans are rounding error >8 billion people suddenly looking extremely beta >future contains potentially 10^something people >can't even fit beneficiaries in google sheets >new moral priority unlocked >protect the long-term future >stop thinking in units of "people helped" >start thinking in "fraction of cosmic endowment preserved" >malaria? >terrible >but only kills existing humans >AI extinction could delete the entire light cone >nuclear war could permanently derail civilization >bad institutions could lock in terrible values for ten million years >someone invents wrong constitution in 2140 >quadrillions suffer >better fund governance workshop now >friend says maybe we should improve hospitals >explain opportunity cost >friend says hospitals are full of actual sick people >explain scope sensitivity >friend stops inviting me to dinner >need to decide what to fund >easy >expected value >suppose project has one in a million chance of preventing extinction >sounds tiny >but extinction destroys 10^50 future lives >multiply >mother of god >$10 million project has expected value of several galaxies >charity evaluation complete >someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from >expert judgement >which expert >us >how calibrated >extremely thoughtfully >reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative >still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude >epistemic robustness achieved >someone says maybe project doesn't work >assign 20% chance >still astronomical >maybe project makes problem worse >assign 5% chance >still astronomical >why 5 >because 30 felt pessimistic >publish 46-page report >contains seventeen sensitivity analyses >every sensitivity analysis begins after assuming intervention has positive sign >critic says you're multiplying enormous hypothetical stakes by extremely uncertain probabilities >yes >that's literally why it's important >critic says the uncertainty might be structural rather than numerical >make probability smaller >critic says no, I mean maybe your model is wrong >make probability smaller again >critic begins rubbing temples >discover AI safety >perfect longtermist cause >AI might kill everyone >or create utopia >or seize galaxy >or tile universe with paperclips >or create billions of conscious software minds >finally a problem with numbers big enough for me >start AI safety nonprofit >mission: prevent dangerous AI >hire smartest people available >smartest people immediately start building better AI to understand dangerous AI >interesting >we must understand capabilities to understand safety >we must scale models to study alignment >we must race ahead so less responsible actors don't get there first >we must deploy systems to learn how deployment can go wrong >we must build the thing quickly because building the thing quickly is dangerous >outsider asks why the people most worried about AI apocalypse all work at AI companies >complicated field >company releases stronger model >very concerned >company begins training even stronger model >extremely concerned >company raises $14 billion >concern reaches unprecedented levels >need to influence government >future is at stake >normal democratic process too slow >politicians don't understand exponential curves >public doesn't understand x-risk >experts must guide them >who counts as expert >people who understand x-risk >who understands x-risk >our friends >someone objects that this seems politically convenient >explain we're representing future generations >future generations unavailable for comment >develop concept of value lock-in >terrifying possibility that one ideology controls civilization forever >therefore extremely important that civilization adopts correct values before lock-in >whose values >let's circle back >begin with impartial morality >end with small group of people deciding what quadrillions of hypothetical beings would want >beautiful arc >meanwhile actual humans keep doing annoying things >voting wrong >having parochial attachments >loving family more than strangers >caring about local community >getting upset when told their suffering is cosmically negligible >evolutionary biases everywhere >explain that moral intuition cannot be trusted >except intuition that future digital people count >and intuition that extinction is uniquely bad >and intuition that our probability estimates are sane >and intuition that our institutional choices improve the future >those intuitions survived peer review >someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter >inefficient >could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher >think of all the simulated people you just killed >okay maybe don't phrase it that way publicly >PR team says "future generations deserve a voice" >much better >journalist asks what longtermism means >say "future people matter" >everyone agrees >great >journalist asks what follows from that >well technically we should redirect enormous resources toward low-probability interventions affecting astronomical futures >journalist raises eyebrow >return to "future people matter" >motte has entered the chat >critic: of course future people matter >me: glad we agree >critic: I don't agree that your institute knows how to help them >me: why do you hate our grandchildren >eventually notice uncomfortable implication >if future value dominates everything >then helping people today mostly matters through effects on future >education matters because future institutions >health matters because future productivity >democracy matters because future trajectory >human beings slowly become instrumental variables in their own moral philosophy >see starving child >feel compassion >check spreadsheet >child's direct welfare contribution negligible >but perhaps childhood nutrition improves national institutional quality >compassion restored >tell myself this is impartial altruism >one day assistant asks obvious question >"how do you know your intervention actually improves the far future?" >silence >open spreadsheet >increase column width >add confidence interval >assistant asks again >"no, I mean how do you know the sign is positive?" >stare into cosmic light cone >10^50 people staring back >none of them exist >none of them can tell me >none of them can falsify my assumptions >realize I have invented the perfect constituency >infinitely important >completely silent >and always represented by me

Want to shout out @GuyNorcal @lifeofc @Northof80 @TheMatthewA @ZanzibarVenturz @NedRyersonBing @OGtheperson @sjf_keef @toadswiback @beijingdou @defianceworks @0xBGS @phraze @songadaymann @JoshuaFisher @moodSlime_ @pinkapewife Thanks for believing in the vision - and supporting music -looking forward to getting these Ed-ible tracks your way Cookie 1. Title -Say My Name

Presale Opened Now! link Below It’s hard to be a musician. Music is one of the most important art forms we have, yet artists are constantly told to create for pennies. We fight algorithms, chase streams, and hope a playlist decides we're worthy of being heard. Even when people listen, those listens rarely translate into meaningful income. The way we consume music feels broken. It's been broken for a long time. I just didn't know how to challenge it. Today, releasing music often means uploading it to a crowded streaming platform, hoping an algorithm notices it or a playlist gives it a chance. Listening has become passive. Music is everywhere, but we rarely experience it with intention anymore. It's become so convenient that we've lost much of the ritual that once surrounded it. I started asking myself a simple question: How do we make people feel again? How do we make them care again? That question sent me down a rabbit hole. I love food, and I love music. The two have always lived side by side, especially within hip hop and the many cultures and subcultures connected to it. We celebrate albums over meals, gather around music at cookouts, and build communities around both food and music. That connection made me wonder: What if music wasn't just heard? What if it could be eaten? That's where Edible Albums came from. An Edible Album is a new way for artists to release music through edible mediums, such as cookies. Each cookie represents a song on the album and contains an edible QR code. As you eat each cookie, you scan the code to unlock that track, turning the act of listening into a deliberate experience. Instead of pressing play on another playlist, you're invited to slow down, taste, listen, and connect with the music one song at a time. The goal isn't simply to sell cookies. It's to create a format where music becomes an event again, something people gather around, remember, and experience with intention, while giving artists a new way to create value beyond fractions of a cent per stream. Also collaborated with @cbuy_cbuy_cbuy where you can get your Ed-ible albums and @DemoDotSupply where the music will be hosted. Thanks for your support

it’ll take me longer to process all of this than it did to create the collection itself. but for now, I can say thank you. anything written here would not suffice for the gratitude that envelopes every cell in my body currently. to the folks who reached out prior to the drop with well wishes. those that spent time with the collection in any capacity. to the people who ended up winning one. to glitch the fucking best partners in history. to transient. to anyone whose ever read a single word by me. or enjoyed a single smile from a stupid meme. or departed reality for a moment in an animation. I created things for so long in a vacuum of unbridled isolation for so long, it’s a really special thing to have found people who enjoy the things I make. and make things of their own. or collaborate through shared stories of midwestern depravity or happy nostalgia. thank you. die

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