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It's mere slander. It reminds me of the Smithsonian's insistence that punctuality, hard work, objectivity, and politeness were aspects of "white dominant culture" and "white suprem…

Find a Church which still does this: "There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales, and…

"So I'd like to engage AI risk from both these perspectives. I think the arguments for superintelligence are somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions. But even if you fi…

"John wore a T-shirt that featured a smiley face with a bullet hole in the forehead from which trickled a few drops of blood" Sounds like a Watchmen Comedian logo t-shirt. It could…

"but I can't help but see parallels between today and the Industrial Revolution" You're not the only one. The current Pope Leo XIV explicitly named himself after the the previous L…

I'm not an enthusiast. I'm a Butlerian. Imagine hearing pre-attention-is-all-you-need that "AI" could do something that Donald Knuth could not (quickly solve the stated problem in …

Maybe. “The laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations.” - Paul Dirac “It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, …

"humans" Donald Knuth is an extremal outlier human and the problem is squarely in his field of expertise. Claude, guided by Filip Stappers, a friend of Knuth, solved a problem that…

Nov 16 Update: Rebecca Heineman - Organizer It’s time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless. So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my…

> > IQ is compute speed, not storage. > Says who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_... Von Neumann's mathematical fluency, calculation speed, and general…

Thanks! (My son loves to play.) BTW, the old Windows installer runs great under Crossover on Apple Silicon. I'm going to try running this native. I'll file issues for what I can't …

“Our clients understand that a two- to three-minute ad load is more valuable than a nine-minute ad load,” says Mark Read, head of WPP, the world’s largest ad company and Groupm’s p…

Then it's a shame that society has largely decided to discard as outdated longstanding philosophies whose tenets do teach the intrinsic value of each human independent of their eco…

The intersection of "AI", "I won't harm you if you don't harm me", and "I get to unilaterally decide what harm is" is going to be wild.

A fair summary (based on information from Open Secrets) would be that the vast preponderance of contributions were to Democratic and/or progressive candidates or funds ($36,846,356…

Yes, please. Thank you. I'm not sure which is the better argument: that they are a safety menace due to distraction from driving (video billboards?) or that they are profoundly ugl…

Diplomacy is a species of high-stakes asking. 'Mr Herapath, I understand that you wish to visit the whaler, and you have my permission to go. You are no doubt aware that there is a…

First of all, I wish you luck with your effort to have children. It's almost a cliche at this point, but the prefrontal cortex isn't mature until between 25 and 30 on average. "One…

Their business model is literally profiting off of poor customer service (as a service). Get your credit card from a local credit union with at least one physical presence near you…

"Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Th…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-to-offer-booster-sho... Three months, available to all adults. "All adults in the United Kingdom will be able to get their booster Covid-19 …

It seems apparent that the US government is pursuing a novel strategy to route around the Bill of Rights: Steps: * Allow (and encourage) private sector monopolies to form * Use its…

That "just" is doing a lot of work. It seems to me that many of these "rationalize all the things" schemes tend to bottom out at and build onto an "incorruptible kernel of truth" w…

Hanson says regarding national metrics: 'Well, now we’re going to authorize this same sort of agency to estimate number like GDP except we’re going to tell them to put more things …

What allows this tactic to work is the size asymmetry between very large companies and smaller companies. It is much less effective against similarly sized companies. Very large co…