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Also wanted to add the famous quote attributed to Goering at Nuremberg. https://www.mit.edu/people/fuller/peace/war_goering.html "Of course the people don't want war. But after all…

Italy also counts natural infection as well according to the article you linked. https://italygreenpass.com/how-do-i-get-a-green-pass-for-tra... > Italian citizens and permanent re…

Ok... but that mostly just seems like Germany. At least the stereotype of Germany is that all the rules are very strict and it's very important to follow them. From "What makes Ger…

>[Scott #111] I would never object to anyone speculating about such fun things! The one part that I do object to, is people passing over the metaphysical enormity of what needs to …

Interesting clarification Aaronson makes here: Will Says: Comment #9 December 2nd, 2022 at 7:26 pm Hi Scott, I think I must be missing something in your argument. If “A foofs B” ha…

Ah ok, so Australia, UK, Spain, Italy, Poland. Not the U.S. though right? I guess Europeans had a much stricter lockdown. You're right though, I genuinely didn't know it was so str…

They do address this in the article (albeit in a flowery way): > Surprisingly, despite the skeletal simplicity of their wormhole, the researchers detected a second signature of wor…

I disagree with your suggestion that diplomacy is necessarily a form of submission. Peace can still be made while maintaining a position of strength. For example, U.S.-Soviet relat…

Where in the West were there actual curfews? In the U.S. I don't remember there being any; just some talk about potentially quarantining NYC which of course never actually happened…

I always thought starting with CSAM was just a convenient pretext for slowly introducing surveillance tech in the U.S. #1-#7 are all bad. I don't think saying "some aspects of [bad…

Why do you think you can trust the hardware? What about E911, etc.?

>who is purchasing art Mostly money launderers, I've heard. >we won't be killed off by AGI because humans don't have malicious intent I wouldn't say malice is necessary. It's just …

I agree. TikTok going down wouldn't be the end of the world. But there is so much other reliance on Chinese manufacturing in the West: electronics, furniture, machinery, etc. https…

It goes back into at least the 80s as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Just pointing that all software is exploitable. And punishing the application developer might not be right if the vulnerability is caused by a lower level dependency. For example, …

> enforcement of security vulnerability should be by law I think whether there "should" be a law making you liable could depend on the details of the exploit. If you get exploited …

4) If computers get good enough at 1) or 2), then there'd be much bigger problems, and essentially all humans will become the starving artists. Also, I'm not so sure that language …

These board games are models of real human problems. And these reasoning and tree searching tasks are very general, and humans perform these very often in work and in personal life…