dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️)

it's almost like AIs have a cutoff date to their training material and will gladly tell you this, as will their documentation

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.

Yup, here's the less-academic explanation of one of the major datasets: "persistent pseudonyms" (ie, self-chosen usernames) is the most stable and least abusive configuration. Link to academic paper is in there somewhere. theconversation.com/online-anony...

let's fucking goooooooo

i got it on youtube and the next words out of my mouth cannot be reposted here

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I think there's way too much pessimism about the possibility of convincing people to change their object level views. On AI and the environment, animal welfare, and mainstream econ, my experience has been that 9 out of 10 people are open to good arguments.

rationally i know this is still good for democrats. irrationally, i'm still sad because it would've been really cool if we had won

yeah that i agree with. i still do not get why he finds the "psychophysical harmony" thing so compelling, it seems to have the usual structure of "confusing thing, therefore god"

...he's a college student

i don't think the videos were particularly convincing - which videos are you talking about?

did you get to the fire kasina bit yet? afaict that seems like a pretty clear explanation

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

afaict the only major rationalist blogger who endorsed it was Bentham's Bulldog, and the others were mostly generic substackers who were friends with BB? to my recollection most people stayed out of it or took the against position

that i definitely agree with

honestly i disagree with this a bit, but this may just be because i'm a habitual mathematician with long timelines

yeah i've heard he has very thin skin

honestly mostly just surprised this wasn't there when i checked a month ago

thanks!

thanks!

thanks!

thinnest skin imaginable lmao

One day all turkeys will be pardoned

omg i won twitter

it makes some difference, but they've been consistently overrated in reliability for a long time

as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'

yeah :(

...what the actual fuck, i thought he was at least kinda cool. fuck him ig

i don't think this is true but luckily i'm going to be empirically testing soon

decreasing pressure in one part of the system creates more slack elsewhere and complaints about solidarity are a psyop by conservatives to defang us

...why not? it's true and important