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We don't have any humanists left
But can someone write an essay or Zizek rant that examines how the freaks at Anthropic are enacting a bible-size bratty sub kink in their insistence that they can't stop building something they think is going to kill us and need daddy to regulate
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AFRL conducted a test of preliminary Rocket Cargo capabilities via @SpaceX Bandwagon-5 on a Falcon 9 launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station @SLDelta45. This test involved a SpaceX Starfall capsule loaded with #AFRL agile cargo pods for point-to-point delivery missions.
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It's noticeable that the national security arguments don't seem to move the public. This speaks to the fact that AI is completely disanalogous to conventional arms races.
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The worst thing about using a phone in the dark is that it lights your face without lighting your surroundings. Scrolling, hyper-visible but blind; I like to pretend I'm an anglerfish lure, the beacon of a predator much greater than myself
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it's incredible that the variable-voltage variable-frequency commutator-less synchronous motor drive was invented closer to the invention of the three-phase electric motor than to the widespread use of VVVF motor drives (which needed power electronics to actually thrive)
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Surveys show that across nearly all modern societies, the top two sources of meaning in life are (1) family, (2) work.
The Right rightly gives no quarter to movements that seek to abolish the family. Why are they showing so much more tolerance toward a movement (the AI industry) that seeks to abolish work?
If AI leads to the abolition of work, or even just reduces it from a skilled activity to merely prompting the bot, we will experience an unprecedented social/psychological crisis.
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I'm often a defender of gatekeeping, but this is perhaps the most absurd form of gatekeeping I've ever seen.
When you started thinking about something has absolutely zero bearing on the quality of your thinking on that thing, once you start thinking about it.
Also, a good chunk of the earliest people to think about it had the deranged idea that the solution to the problem was to proliferate a bazillion companies racing to AGI/ASI...
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The average optimistic young man just gets brutally timerugged these days. "Oh you don't have to take finasteride, you can just do head massages!" "Oh you don't have to get SARPE, you can just spend some time thumbpulling!" etc etc
None of these holistic tiktok memes ever work. They just trick hopeful young people into spending years wasting 30m daily on absolute nonsense before they eventually realize it was all a scam and do the thing they were trying to avoid anyway. Enormous loss of human capital
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On further reflection, despite Scott misrepresenting my position (and that of Rudolf and Dan as well), I'm glad we've reached the point that handover-ists find themselves needing to proactively make arguments for their position, rather than just quietly smuggling it into what are supposed to be serious policy documents, uncommented upon there as if it's the most obvious thing ever.
I was also very careful to do the same - distinguishing handover advocates from outright successionists - in my essay that Scott linked, but that doesn't stop him from falsely accusing me of painting the two as the same thing. Just because I (correctly) say both are bad does not mean I am saying they are the same thing!
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Yep, the prevalence of 'handover-ism' among prominent AI safety people has, until recently, not been emphasised enough. I personally don't really see the practical difference between successionism vs handoverism except for vibes.
On further reflection, despite Scott misrepresenting my position (and that of Rudolf and Dan as well), I'm glad we've reached the point that handover-ists find themselves needing to proactively make arguments for their position, rather than just quietly smuggling it into what are supposed to be serious policy documents, uncommented upon there as if it's the most obvious thing ever.
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everyone clowns on it but security through obscurity sure made "4" last a while
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The flesh is weak. The tech industry is built on exploiting that fact.
Americans have a "revealed preference" for doing less of basically everything except going online and I have serious doubts that this is making us happier.
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I firmly reject the idea - which this is one variation of - that our role is merely to consume, not to produce.
