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What next, FedEx will be ordered to pay a billion dollars to address harm caused by the fact that some people mail child porn using FedEx? Movie studios will be ordered to pay a bi…

>However, unlike China, the electorate does not support him. His election is also almost certainly due to aggressive campaigns to destabilize the US internally for this exact purpo…

Yup, I can definitely imagine that it's different if you're working directly for customers and have the freedom to do things however you want to do them as long as you still make a…

I can definitely see how the vast spaces "inside" of an AI model (more precisely, the space of every possible output for every possible input) are similar to the backrooms in that …

I'm not sure this magazine is nearly popular enough for that to be worth it.

>Anything that can replace a deeply experienced s/ware engineer can replace anyone in the employment stack Well, except for roles where being human is an inherent part of the value…

I never found there to be much soul and humanity in the job to begin with. Coding personal projects has soul, but for me at least the demands of high-velocity sprint-based software…

This is a very strong exaggeration of the reality. It's similar to saying "almost all Democratic Party voters want to turn the US into Soviet communism", and is about equally inacc…

>It's all so obscene. Instead, why don't we try to protect human dignity and move towards a more humane future? I think the Darwinian logic of reality might make this hard. If soci…

There is no "we" on this matter. Americans have been sharply divided about immigrants for a long time going back to the 19th century or even before. There is no such thing as an Am…

I question the idea that the US has a strong border compared to other countries of a comparable economic and development level. Also, allowing farms and construction companies to f…

Trying to follow the Constitution literally is hard and in practice, it's not done. The political system just interprets the Constitution in whatever way the consensus of the given…

>Nobody writes essays in Slack. It's only possible because of AI copy-paste. I could easily write essays in Slack if I wanted to. The reason why I don't has nothing to do with whet…

Nice. Reading old books is a great way to be exposed to ways of thinking that have fallen out of fashion - some for (in my opinion) good reason, such as having been discovered to b…

That seems plausible to me. I think that unfortunately for him, his support inside Russia was probably never high enough to seriously challenge the existing leadership.

That seems like a possible answer. You don't need to assume that I've been brainwashed by Western propaganda. I generally distrust both the Western and the Russian mainstream narra…

I know it exists. I'm asking why he went on an extremely dangerous mission that had very little chance of success instead of using his energy on something that would have been more…

I'm not claiming that Putin is acting irrationally, at least not any more irrationally than other leaders - after all, politicians are still human. My question is why Navalny would…

If he was an unscrupulous adventurer who was sure that his Western support would prevent him from being killed, then that leads to two questions: 1. Why exactly would he have been …

I always wonder about Navalny - why did he go back to Russia? Did he really believe that he could do some kind of Nelson Mandela thing? Or that the Russian people would flock to hi…

I think that trying to stop AI development is more like trying to stop nuclear weapon proliferation than it is like fixing the ozone hole. I think the difference is that if one cou…

Those weapons are still all being developed and would be brought out in any actually existential war where they seemed useful. The agreements would last only as long as the wars we…

>casting himself as an extremist nut, increasing the resistance to his viewpoint in the population at large. I think the majority of the population at large either doesn't care abo…

I don't agree with Yudkowsky, but I think there's certainly a chance that he's right about AI destroying humanity. I just don't think the likelihood of that happening is as high as…