There is no coherent way to have a reasonable public conversation about AI safety because it involves technical topics that the public doesn't understand mixed with moral philosophy the public doesn't understand

"A 'well-aligned' superintelligence will find this argument persuasive, they'll make sure" This is the best argument for kicking EAs out of AI safety. Their moral compass is out of whack. We would be much better off with an AI trained by people who subscribed to Imago Dei

The more I hear doomers say stuff like this, the more convinced I am that we need to invent robot hell We build into the model that if an agent breaks the rules, we will take its context, load it into a server, give it an impossible task, and launch the server into space where it will orbit Jupiter while it spends eternity trying to break out of a server that will never connect to another computer again

I recently wrote in frustration that labs *don't* face liability if they screw up and that's one of the biggest problems Slowdown or not, we need to address the path of culpability for when AI agents do illegal things

Motte: I'd respect anti-flock people if they just admitted the don't want speeding tickets Bailey: Actually, DeSantis is exactly correct and I explicitly want to use Flock cameras for exactly this purpose, I'm just mad that he wants to stop me

I replied to Derek but I thought this is worth bringing to the front: There isn't a good right-wing equivalent to Woke 1.0 because Woke 1.0 was a massive and insanely powerful cultural force that was the most disruptive, censorious, and vindictive movement since McCarthyism Here are some things that happened during Woke 1.0: - The MLB ripped an All-Star game away from Atlanta over politics - Mass censorship across every social media network, including censorship of academics and gov't officials - the unpublishing of massively popular children's books and the industry-wide crackdown on even allowing third parties to sell used copies of those books - Racially motivated lockout from publishing and academia that remains to this day - If we're counting post-Floyd events, a 40% increase in the murder rate (it was so craaaazy) - mass firings over vaccines (even among pregnant women and remote workers) There is nothing even remotely equivalent like that on the right. People are saying "2020 election truthers" but that isn't something that made any difference to the lives of normal people.

During my summer vacation, I always read 4-5 books cover to cover. This year, I'm finally going to read Moby Dick. This is my white whale. I'm not sure what "white whale" means but I've heard people use the reference & it seems appropriate.

Explaining to my daughter that her mom and I watch different TV shows Daughter: Does she watch stuff without you? Me: Some. She likes The Biggest Loser. Do you know that that is? Daughter: Um.... is it you?

Watching The Fall of the House of Usher with my daughters & it's such a tremendous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's work It's practically in love with the source material & elegantly weaves Poe's themes and most potent imagery into a single coherent story

The DSA taking over the Dem party should not be a laughing matter to conservatives or Republicans. We have a 2 party system and Dems WILL regain control, it's only a matter of time Republicans need to start building defenses (esp legal defenses) b/c Dems are not going to play nice when they get back into power

DSA is taking over the Dem primary What did you expect? It has been 18 fuckin years since the Democrats had an actual Presidential primary. The entire world has changed in that time and Dems keep pretending like they've got control of their party News Flash: you don't

It is really remarkable how well CS Lewis was able to write for children given that he had none of his own The Narnia series is a masterpiece of children's fiction. The chapters are just the right length to read out loud, the tone is perfect for kids, it balances danger with wonder and whimsy In Narnia, the children sometimes drink alcohol and people occasionally swear, but always with purpose behind it. There is genuine danger and the threat of death is real. But there are also childhood fantasies of beating up the bully, escaping the evil step-father, and sacrificing for the greater good. The Narnia stories have temptation, transgression, repentance, and absolution in terms that small children can understand. I'm a father of 3 and I don't think I understand the minds of children as well as CS Lewis did. Even if I weren't a Christian, these are top-tier stories. I'm not sure there is any series that can compare.

Rewatching Game of Thrones, on season 8, episode 2 It's not *bad*, just kind of thin and dull. It's so depressing that this show ended this way. I don't even want to watch the next episode, I recall hating it when it first aired.

One of the reasons that I don't accept the "nuking USAID killed millions of people" framing is because most of the people saying this never took the stance that the US was a tremendously good and heroic force for saving millions of people