Brain organoids, veganism, feminism, sometimes research & parenting life. Ruthless cosmopolitan. Critics rave: "Least annoying bad takes I've seen all week"
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Joined December 2019
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Because sentient animals evolved to pursue their own flourishing, not our instrumental goals, any workflow that exploits them as biological machines can in theory be made more efficient, reproducible, and humane by replacing the animals with designed-to-purpose synthetic systems.
Would love to see an updated (and ideally public-accessible) version of the analysis in forethought.org/research/pre…—in particular the suggestion that RSI could suddenly allow lots more intelligence to fit into much smaller, easy-to-self-exfiltrate, hard-to-unplug compute footprints
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Full support to the good people of @hgsuuaw, whose hard-won parental benefits—which admin is now trying to slash—made it possible for us to have our wonderful daughter while completing our degrees in a city where childcare runs $ 2-4k/month. Solidarity forever!
The Harvard Graduate Student Union (UAW Local 5118) is on STRIKE! As they fight for a new contract, the Harvard Academic Workers are fighting for their FIRST contract. It's time Harvard comes to a fair deal with ALL its workers who are in this one fight together. @UAWRegion9A
"...No pork for Abdul, revise the menu/just hummus for you and me"
Crazy how often when rightists say "freedom" they mean the freedom to take away the freedom of someone lower than them in the hierarchy
It's not my style but ~fine to hope you or your kids will value your community enough to find friends and even a life partner within it.
The (common) problem is Goodharting this indicator into a goal in itself—having relationships outside the community but not in full good faith
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I think life is richer when you're open to every person and culture you meet. I'm enough of a liberal to say you're entitled to stay among your own if you want.
But if you're living among the nations, you owe it to yourself and those you live among to treat them as individuals
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My sense is that while we've all been distracted with undeniably important other stuff the probability of AI killing us all appears to have jumped considerably, which is an outcome I'm generally opposed to, if I'm being honest
Macrophysiological System🐀 retweeted
The Harvard Graduate Student Union (UAW Local 5118) is on STRIKE! As they fight for a new contract, the Harvard Academic Workers are fighting for their FIRST contract. It's time Harvard comes to a fair deal with ALL its workers who are in this one fight together. @UAWRegion9A
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A small cabal of self serving, ultra rich tech titans should not be allowed to drive humanity off a cliff with artificial super intelligence, while they quietly build their rockets and bunkers in New Zealand and Hawaii to escape the apocalypse.
Stand with us and DO NOT ACCEPT this future.
AI companies admit what they’re building might kill everyone. We don't have to agree to this.
Add your name at donotaccept.ai to say: we do not accept your terms.
AI alignment might work for a while, but eventually the Peter Principle is going to get us.
Maybe there are clever tricks we can use to control a model up to N times smarter than us. But if we use that control to keep making better ones, this will only stop when we lose control
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Bizarre that the UK has draconian restrictions on individual free speech (eg ~30 arrests/day for online posts like "I support Palestine Action") but also one of the most lethally unhinged tabloid presses in the world (Princess Diana, Milly Dowler, Caroline Flack). Pick a struggle
I know it doesn't solve the core conflict, but just descriptively like 98% of the trans youth sports debate is solved by letting everyone participate freely, while making "eligible for official recordkeeping in the competitive women's division" a moderately onerous opt-in status
Alternatively you could say that El-Sayed's election measured the power of a local centrist/Zionist Democratic leader deploying the full, bridge-burning, career-suicide nuclear option against a vulnerable progressive rival, and this effect is at most a net R+2
If you're interested in the question of what is a good model for political success, it's useful to compare his performance to other federal candidates for office in Michigan.
He's far from the worst — that's Will Lawrence, white leftist — but he's below average.
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