campfireSmoresEaten
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campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
Are you sure Kulak is a man? I've listened to the Kulak podcast and it's a woman's voice. Voice changer? Just a very convincing fake voice?
I was very surprised, but I guess some of the essays are about subjects which a woman might theoretically be more likely to write about than a man.
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
Yeah. In addition to that, I regret using the word "gross" in an internet vernacular sense
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
But since then, there have been few obviously pro-social successes of his.
Starlink is cool. I have higher willingness to support Ukraine than Musk, but Musk has done a lot more to support Ukraine than I have.
The continued achievements of SpaceX.
The continued rollout of electric cars.
His record on AI is mixed, but he has spoken out about the dangers. Including directly to some very high ranking politicians. I think it's weird he's not doing more. But if humanity is going to die, I would rather we die with someone having brought this to the attention of various powerful people directly. It's "dignity points", I guess.
He has acted as a sort of grey-tribe wing of the republican party with respect to things like the deficit, which is probably a good thing. And arguably he's sort of a moderate on immigration? I haven't really followed that.
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
Maybe without leaded gasoline the average IQ (or brain health, if IQ is too gross) of the United States would have been raised just enough to prevent this.
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
There is a common human thing where someone gets into a hole and takes a huge risk in hopes of getting out of that hole, which makes the problem much much worse.
If politicians embrace AI for this reason and then superintelligence kills everyone, I would describe this as that
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
I am fine with returning art, but I would object to returning Gibraltar or the Falklands. They seem very different to me.
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
There was that guy who bought a bunch of boxes of magic cards using bitcoin gained from some sort of criminal activity. The guy selling the magic cards was not a crypto-savvy guy. (And then the criminal sold the magic cards.)
campfireSmoresEaten
10mo ago
Well what did you have on your to-do list?
Well, shows what I know. Must be a voice changer or something. (That is not the kulak voice I was familiar with)
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