Andy Masley

I guess I'm separately pretty skeptical of criticizing motives. Psychologizing people kills the object level conversation

As a rule, I only ever say "I'm just some guy" to emphasize that people should take me less seriously. If you see me deploying that to say people shouldn't criticize me, take me less seriously.

I am against smol beanism in all contexts. If you're writing publicly, lots of criticism is always legit as long as it's not crossing into doxxing or harassment.

people who don't have access to paid models and/or don't use LLMs regularly still have no idea how capable they are

Bro

I predict that my vision for New England will not be approved if it's put to a vote in a town meeting

In Western Mass., environmentalists fear that solar farms are fire hazards - The Boston Globe In the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, solar proposals have surged. Some residents are fighting back.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/01/s...

I basically think it's potentially worse than useless to indiscriminately "activate" everyday people on environmental issues, because it's too easy to think in terms of good guys and bad guys, and hard to think about trade-offs and collective action problems.

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He knows remarkably little about climate for someone who's claimed to care about it for so long

Ya I assume Joshi thinks EA is just a way to hype the AI labs etc.

I'm wildly unsure about AI safety and alignment, truly no clue if any lab is doing good or catastrophic evil there.

But Claude as a consumer product right this moment is my guy. I'm still riding high on opus psychosis.

I feel seen

I posted it here and the only engagement it got was from the primary funder of my movement bsky.app/profile/andy...

I feel seen

And the long section toward the end

Mapping the AI & environment debate And clarifying what I believe

Had actually responded to this specific article in the intro here open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

Will type up a summary later today ya, fwiw I have Joshi blocked because he’s behaved in remarkably bad faith and pretended to not know pretty basic climate stuff in the past

Was curious about the responses yes

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People keep accusing me of lying about this but can never actually identify anything I’ve gotten wrong

1000% and I’m sure Dustin agrees

Big reason I’m not a rat at all. FWIW extremely positive support for me from EAs in comparison

Hadn’t realized Grimes went to Yarvin’s wedding? She‘s just 100% a fascist now, insane

It just depressed me every time progress slows. ~3000 deaths per month nationally. Even a few months of delaying progress could basically be equivalent to a major mass casualty event.

I remember in the lead up to 2016 when I was trying to convince some far left friends to vote for Hillary by bringing up the Supreme Court and saying Roe would be in danger. One responded "Well we need to abolish the Supreme Court" and they didn't seem to understand that this would also abolish Roe

Important to remember that only 50% of Americans can name the 3 branches of government. If someone's condescending to you about how the Supreme Court doesn't matter or whatever, there's a decent chance they don't really know what it is

Personal announcement: I'm excited to be transitioning into a full-time writing role with a grant from Coefficient Giving

My "AI no use much water" this month has been "Jon Stewart no know economics"

Yup they reached out to me after the hard fork interview