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petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
“Why are young people economic leftists?”
I can’t answer this question for the francophone world, but in the United States my answer/s would be:
1) young people are broadly extremely misinformed about the structure of Western economic systems. Many of them are convinced that our economies are far more laissez-faire and deregulated than they actually are.
2) young people are extremely misinformed about the sheer quantity of government spending, and especially how much the government spends relative to the income/wealth of the richest people (e.g. all the assets of every billionaire in America would fund single payer healthcare for a year and a half)
3) young people broadly feel like the ability to accumulate wealth is not a benefit to them and like they are locked out of systems of asset accumulation.
4) in youth circles, economic griping is paradoxically often “high status.” developing radical political approaches wrt cost of living is generally viewed positively.
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
Things to say to a rationalist:
• I don't debate 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀.
• Let me speak directly to your 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲.
• Is your P(doom) 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲?
• Sell me this 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗸.
• Would you rather have sex with a 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘄 or an 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘄?
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
Ezra Klein Podcast
Episode 1: “we’re embracing Abundance. we’re deregulating the economy and building infrastructure”
Episode 2: “please vote for this Democrat promising to empower unions and regulate Silicon Valley out of existence”
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
Laptop out on the metro north: Refined specimen of the upper middle-class, organized and efficient, the lifeblood of American capitalism, bald eagle shedding tear, I want to salute
Laptop out on the subway: this guy is fighting for his life
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
This very much sounds like a West-only AI cartel proposal and, in fact, if you read Dario's essay - under the very telling "pacing within democracies" chapter - he specifically says he'd need the US government to issue an "antitrust waiver" for this.
The plan transparently looks like this: agree among themselves not to compete too hard, get an antitrust waiver to make it legal, and while they're at it, get Washington - under the veneer of "safety" - to kneecap Chinese competitors because only "democratic" models can be in this "safe pacing" club.
I'm not even exaggerating: Dario pretty much writes this explicitly.
There are 3 steps to his plan and step 2 is literally: "Frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress" -> the "unchecked AI progress" that would need "limits" is simply AI progress that happens outside their agreement. Another word for it is simply competition 🤷♂️
He also explicitly writes that "a key part of pacing within democracies is to keep democracies’ AI lead over autocracies as large as possible." You can't possibly be clearer than this...
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
An alternative hypothesis:
- model performance is plateauing
- compute is getting much more expensive
- AI data centers are massively unpopular
- slowing down AI development is a way to explain slowing progress, reduce spending, and try to regain some goodwill.
- This is an effort to save the IPO not humanity.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
Today is another day to discover more of Christ. He has more life, more forgiveness, and more joy to give us.
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
Moderate “nice” lefties want their political murders to be aimed only at employees of companies they don’t like.
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
We genuinely need a white collar revolt
Bank of America Vice President Erin Piacenti, 32, was killed after police say a knife-wielding woman randomly stabbed two people in Times Square. The suspect, identified as Pamela Cisneros of Queens, allegedly first stabbed a 68-year-old man near Seventh Avenue before attacking Piacenti moments later.
Police say officers confronted Cisneros after witnesses flagged them down, repeatedly ordering her to drop two knives. Officials say Tasers failed, and officers opened fire when she advanced toward them; Cisneros later died at Bellevue Hospital.
petty bourgeois protestant retweeted
i think about this henry kissinger interview at the four seasons / the grill a lot
