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Let's have this conversation every day until we die
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Finished this podcast feeling much more concerned about AI safety. Pinker, who is apparently smart and seems to understand the terrain quite well, was totally unconvincing
Dan Williams
@danwilliamsphilOct 7
Replying to @dioscuri
@dioscuri and I were honoured to be joined by @sapinker to discuss AI, including concepts like "AGI" and "superintelligence", existential risk, instrumental convergence, consciousness, and more . Full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=JLJ7UL5C… (1/2)
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If you actually read the article you find that he got lost on his own and Claude has almost nothing to do with it
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Diana carving out an interesting niche as an effective altruist who’s apparently indifferent to human suffering
Diana S. Fleischman
@sentientistOct 5
The shrimp actually want help though
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Absolute mess, a series of words which are all related to the topic at hand but are not obviously arranged in any intentional manner. Hard to even say what it gets wrong because it's so incoherent throughout. Let's start with the bizarre definition of sentience:
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinsonSep 29
spencer roberts offers a useful reminder that machines are not sentient currentaffairs.org/news/why-…
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More straight-up nonsense:
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There's just no argument presented. None of it makes any sense for even a second. I don't understand how anyone could read this and think to publish it. Isn't Nathan J Robinson smart? What's happening?
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Hard to imagine that there's anything to be said about wokeness that could possibly be worth paying for, at this point.
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NYC DSA posting AI-generated bad takes about AI...interesting.
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And what textbook did you read that in?
kate wehwalt
@mcmansionhellSep 19
the concept of writing an essay confessing to committing a textbook case of emotional incest
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Absolutely lethal observation from Aidan on Kantians: you can never trust a Kantian because you never know when they’re being sincere or just fiddling with their maxims.
Andrew Orlowski
@AndrewOrlowskiSep 16
An absolutely lethal observation from @CarissaVeliz on Effective Altruists.
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If people can’t offer better criticism of EA very soon then I’m seriously going to have to give away a kidney
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Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81. nyti.ms/4hrp9BD

Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

nytimes.com
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The problem with rationalists simply cannot be that they aren't smart or thoughtful.
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternetSep 15
I simply do not think the posters of LessWrong are generally smart and thoughtful as compared to the rest of society, for what that's worth.
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