The interminable length has got to have started out as a gullibility filter before ending up as an unspoken imperative to be taken seriously in those circles

Only in these circles could an article that AI can read to you in an hour and forty-eight minutes be clickbait for the paywalled "companion piece."

Paying 20-somethings to have orgies on the beach in Bali is a form of charity, if their laptops are nearby.

Starting a wall of text with a non sequitur is a bold strategy. I cannot follow his 9/11 logic at all.

One of these things is not like the others. (my bulleting)

We also understand the serious risks posed by these technologies. These risks range from

• the further entrenchment of existing inequalities, to
• manipulation and misinformation, to
• the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.

10/10, no notes

Oh, this guy Bryan seems like a real prize.

Existing toys for men are dead, limp, flaccid, gay .....

... we're going to take non-reproductive sex with human women off the table as a commodity. It's gone. Can't trade money for it. Can't trade a meal for it..."

Every scientist I know is always going on and on about how the Overton Window is about to shift on their field of study. This is how serious work gets done, by measuring public opinion.

EA is not a religion. Anyway, here are some pros / cons to marrying outside the religion.

...the less committed end of the EA spectrum (do you sneak dairy products when no one’s looking? fantasize about owning a yacht?)

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a yacht to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Most notably, he cropped the graph on the "ourworldindata" website - the annual average appears below all of those charts, and quite obviously line go up. I took his Sweden chart into excel and added a trend line just to make it all on one chart.

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

When you make your alarmist arguments dishonestly, how can I freak out about the end of the world?

Let me translate one point:

People are already talking about an AI rights movement in major national papers

A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.

Those photos at them working all over the world in exotic locations, including the FTX condos in the Bahamas... ... and still referring to themselves as "charity workers."