Giving him the night off. Hopefully I’ll be repaid in the future when they’re in charge

This series is interesting but I find the idea that the consumer is blameless to be very misleading. "What manufacturers decide to build". There is no consumer here?

Let me be clear I am not really a "pessimist". I think its going to be great. But I also think that many of the AI optimists would have predicted much more real world impact by now. The canaries in the coalmine paper alleges the damages began accumulating Nov 2022. That's four years for real world changes to show up, again in the optimist telling

I’ve become obsessed with how good of a song this is youtu.be/CEuRWLgWMjo?is=AmEY…

Exciting to hear @DKThomp and Rep Harder discuss the EIG housing reform: Right to Build Zones open.spotify.com/episode/0EN…

3 years and 7 months ago. And what would it have bought us? IMO we would have far more skepticism about AI risk today had we done this. Totally counterproductive.

I kind of feel like that would in fact be my response thefp.com/p/ross-douthat-how…

This is America, we are prepared for an invasion

I bet he’s having a bad weekend