lol
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
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Alexander is being dishonest here. Sure, it might have been a "joke," but the whole reason Alexander made the joke is because these TESCREAL utilitarian-esque folks are all about maximization and optimization--and they take seriously there being ginormous #'s of future people.
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
Achievement unlocked: the single worst critique of *if anyone builds it*.
Bonus xp: gratuitous tescreal mud-slings. Bonus xp 2: accusing Scott & the rats of failing to count(!) how many people exist in the world.
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
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You could balance this out by suing The New Statesman into oblivion, which would save 55 billion lives.
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
Levels of internet fame you don't want
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
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Broke: you know damn well your longtermist friends consider "6x as important as the death of all currently living humans" a meaningful multiplicand all the time
Woke: you know damn well reducing global chicken consumption by 3% for 20 years would save 50 billion lives
In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.
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What is so funny about this is that the review was an extended exercise in sneering at weird nerds from the lofty vantage point of a cultural sophisticate.
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In a recent article on "the AI apocalypse", Gareth Watkins of @newstatesman condemns me for a statement I made in a SSC post. I described @kelseytuoc's difficulty interfacing with doctors to renew her Adderall prescription, and said it decreased her effectiveness 20% and therefore "cost approximately 54 billion lives". He says that "this is the kind of thinking that is considered serious by rationalists [and] why Sam Bankman-Fried was able to justify security fraud."
I'm proud of my work reminding my friends to take their medications, but this statement was a joke. For example, there are only 8 billion people in the world, and even Kelsey probably cannot save each of them more than six times. I request a correction.