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Examining is fine in my book. But examining the ability to think of recognizably distinct demographics should be done with great care and sensitivity. And that was not an examinati…

> inability to process information clearly and think in reality in lieu of ideology is the cornerstone of conservative thinking. Can we not do this kind of thing please?

> This is the party of so-called "rationalists". Eh?

What was the question? The rampant flagging here is quite annoying.

Do you have some further reading where one can understand the basics of the subject?

The vast majority of non-EA charity givers to not expend effort on trying to find the most dollar efficient charities (or indeed pushing for quantification at all), which makes the…

This is already true to a great extent. A family with lots of genetic health conditions are probably going to remain poor.

While steelmanning is a great practice, it sometimes feels a bit unfair that many positions are not allowed to be steelmanned (socially or otherwise).

Sadly I don't have time to go into it now, but they're massively overpaying due to miscallibrated risk tolerance. (Paying tens of millions per QALY is not a good use of money, 1 mi…

> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster. Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power production.

And yet somehow there are infinity times more reals than rationals... Very hard to get your head around!

Honestly, a future where diplomas are just noise and employers stop caring about them and thus young people stop wasting years of their lives "learning" something they don't care a…

Can't see any eugenics there, can you quote?

They probably suspect you to be a slow coder who writes code with bad abstractions because they percieve the maths skills as how one does things in software engineering.

This is silly, many countries use consumer messaging for internal communications. The UK government famously uses whatsapp for example.

This doesn't apply to literal ASI, mostly because copy-pasteable intelligence is an absolute gamechanger, particularly if the physical interaction problems that prevent exponential…

This entire thread is worthless social media junk food.

Disgruntled ex-employee disparaging their old colleagues and bosses is extremely common, I don't get why this is getting so many upvotes...

Right now, sure. But when a 21 year old is picking a field they need to think 10 years from now.

Is DEI really centrist? I thought it was progressive left... It definitely used to be. Do we have any surveys on this?

Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.

> I think my main takeaway for sites like /pol/ is that you can't really pretend to act one way for humor for extended periods of time without it rubbing off on you in one way or a…

The vast majority of people will get stressed talking to people they think are evil or against their values. Someone breaking down in tears because another person says they "don't …

"Politics" is a stupid word because everyone has a different idea about what it means and so they all talk past each other.