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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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12d ago
Working for a non-reform religious Jew means that your labor will likely go toward the lobbying efforts of the Jewish community.
Is the guy in question a non-reform religious Jew? If so, did Franco know that at the time?
Mounting a shaming campaign against any event that may have EAs in attendance (vibecamp is not an EA meetup even though some attendees are EAs) isn't going to save any chicken QALYs.
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12d ago
Scott is a good writer but is not particularly charismatic and refuses to give interviews (except the one I guess).
I don't know that Piper is focused on AI safety in particular rather than covering EA more broadly. I also see her as more of a journalist than a thinker.
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12d ago
At some point you're better off finding the most charismatic follower and installing him as the figurehead of the movement while you retire to be the eminence grise if you actually want to convince people. Aren't rationalists supposed to win?
EA and rat sphere seems filled with people that want to be weird. Which makes the "effective" part seem like a lie. Lots of charity involves convincing normies to give you money, and they basically suck at that. They are claiming all the weird people though, so maybe that is them just serving a market niche that no one else was serving well. They don't seem to have the awareness that this is what they are doing.
There's lots of perfectly ordinary EAs who care about malaria nets and not putting pigs and chickens into small cages (e.g. Lewis Bollard). It's just that they aren't the EAs that are posting their sex lives on Twitter.
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13d ago
On top of that, opus 4.8 is seriously reviled by half of the llm addict community.
Isn't this mostly the half that use Opus for ERP?
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13d ago
Due to enhanced productivity at the top, there is a lesser need for graduate students, postdocs and younger faculty, and the ones that do remain in the system receive inferior training because of heavy reliance on AI to pass coursework and generate their own novel research questions.
Why should they be worse at this? There's parts of the process that AI optimizes, and people don't need to be good at those things anymore. That just makes the remaining human input more valuable. Word processing and computer graphics also increased productivity. I bet most grad students couldn't chart a plot by hand these days.
we begin to lose the ability to comprehend what much of it means or how much of it can be applied.
Can't you just ask the AI? If there's no practical applications, well, I'm told that that goes for a lot of human research today, so seems like a win if we can do that with fewer people.
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13d ago
Your economic analysis of what would happen to the money is correct but I know enough parents to know many are genuinely trying to do their best for their children rather than living out some pompous caricature of the PMC, and are desperately afraid their children will fall into an unhappy state.
What's the conflict here? IME the PMC caricature is basically on the money. It probably doesn't even go far enough. People out there literally believe that it's abusive to have kids share a bedroom, and this has nothing to do with ensuring that your kids escape the permanent underclass. It's just pure competition.
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13d ago
Paul Fussell's Class
Was not about how much money you made but about your taste and proclivities. We can argue about Warren's taste, if you like, but your original comment was about net worth.
If you consider doctors the help, you are upper class
It's quite clear that even the lowliest senator considers doctors to be the help.
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13d ago
In fact the matter was not settled before nuclear testing proceeded.
Such grisly conjectures took on a different tone in ensuing decades, as nuclear weaponry progressively grew into a concrete endeavour and, eventually, a tragic reality. It became deeply distasteful to joke about how Earth's immolation may please "sun-bathers on the beaches of Mars". Yet diverse intellectuals including Carl Jung continued referring to the theory that novae are distant atomic tests gone awry. The journal Science even published a piece on the question, in June 1946, on the eve of the US's post-war tests in Bikini Atoll. It stated that not only "non-scientists" are "disturbed over the prospect" of planetary ignition.
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13d ago
The only people who think that the upper class starts at 99% are people between 90%-99% who don't want to face the reality that they aren't middle class. "No officer, you don't understand, I'm only at 98.5%ile."
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13d ago
$12M is close to top 1% in wealth. $3M is 94th percentile. This is not the upper middle class.
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13d ago
I'm far from an expert but would be interested to see what you came up with.
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13d ago
Sorry, I misunderstood "strike" to be a negative, as in baseball.
Being trans should radically increase your estimation of her security expertise.
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13d ago
Amusingly, this isn't what happened. It was even in Oppenheimer!
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14d ago
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I believe this isn't taxed.
Such loans involve interest payments and eventually result in consumption, which is usually taxed. Paging @DuplexFields to shill the Fairtax which might be a better approach to consumption taxation.
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14d ago
I've read a couple but nothing systematically. Which would you recommend?
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15d ago
Out of curiosity, how did you find this forum?
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15d ago
Finished with The Decipherment of Linear B. Very interesting to see the brass tacks of how ancient scripts get deciphered in cases without bilingual texts or even knowing what language it is.
Now on The End of Eternity. First 2/3 were entertaining enough but nothing especially amazing. I think it might be picking up though. Asimov continues to write like an autist; fortunately, that means he can write autists well.
HE MET THE girl in a corridor one day and stood aside, eyes averted, to let her pass.
But she remained standing, looking at him, until he had to look up and meet her eyes. She was all color and life and Harlan was conscious of a faint perfume about her.
She said, “You’re Technician Harlan, aren’t you?”
His impulse was to snub her, to force his way past, but, after all, he told himself, all this wasn’t her fault. Besides, to move past her now would mean touching her.
So he nodded briefly. “Yes.”
“I’m told you’re quite an expert on our Time.”
“I have been in it.”
“I would love to talk to you about it someday.” “I am busy. I wouldn’t have time.”
“But Mr. Harlan, surely you could find time someday.”
She smiled at him.
Harlan said in a desperate whisper, “Will you pass, please? Or will you stand aside to let me pass? Please!”
She moved by with a slow swing of her hips that brought blood tingling to his embarrassed cheeks.
He was angry at her for embarrassing him, angry at himself for being embarrassed, and angry, most of all, for some obscure reason, at Finge.
Has anyone else led a somewhat more solitary existence and prioritized only themselves over connections with others (outside of the connections you make at work anyway in a team, although those connections are more transactional in nature)?
There is some historic precedent.
Broadly speaking, there's a limited window for family formation (yes, even for men), so that's something that needs to be prioritized if that's something you want.
What's the evidence that he is?
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