Lightcone (of shame)
weird flex but OK
... maybe not OK, at that
Ah, but have you considered the fact that because he titled his book Rationality, he is by definition rational, and anyone seeking to argue against him using logic and reason is automatically self-defeating?
You can just do this really simple exercise: Go to any standard evolutionary biology textbook and ask, is Gould buried? Is he gone? Has he been discarded? Tossed into the dustbin of hist—no, he hasn't.
However, Divyansh Kaushik, associate director for emerging technologies and national security at the Federation of American Scientists, told VentureBeat that President Biden’s AI Executive Order, introduced in November 2023, specifically asks NIST and the AISI to focus on certain tasks — including CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials) — for which Paul Christiano is “extremely qualified.”
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It had already reached the university where I work by February 1!
And QAnon loons were already telling people to drink bleach in January.
(I remember a "welp, we're in for it now" moment when Trevor Bedford tweeted on the first of March that a genome analysis "strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks". The e-mail from the university chancellor saying that classes were canceled went out during the middle of a statistical-physics class I was teaching, the evening of March 11.)
Not a bad idea.
"Knight to e12."
"Queen takes Vampire Bishop."
"And a waifu is only a waifu, but a good cigar is a smoke."