Arif Ahmed is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College,

so far so good...

and a campaigner for free speech

and there it is.

LOL

I also couldn't find this chateau on any website

Well this was probably before the story in irozhlas.cz. It looks like a nice place

Every contributor to the mag has an Urbit handle. Enough said.

I remember people convinced his big donations to Democrats would enable him to walk.

Edit I'm pretty sure those same people are gonna defend the judge's opinion that SBF is the worst defendant he's ever met with the fact he's autistic.

It's fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from "I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay" to "no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM"

And the arguments seem to boil down to them saying "if you wanna transition, just do it", and Zack is all like "nooooooo you must convince me not to via Rationality!!!!"

(sorry if I'm being flippant, this person seems to be in a lot of mental distress, but they're also kinda big deal in the community? Like fucking gwern weighed in a bit sarcastically?)

Using Nineteen Eighty-Four references incorrectly is a right-wing trope.

The "Ruthless" joke is one I remember from effing "Swallows and Amazons", the ancient British children's book, where one of the protagonists calls herself Nancy instead of her given name Ruth, because she's a pirate and pirates are ruthless.

There's a subtype of goldbugs that want "hard money" to be represented by something more universal than gold, like energy. It's why they convince themselves Bitcoin is worth something. Maybe this joker is one of them.

You are doing the Robot God's work here, my friend.

An aside - what will EY do when/if ole Muskovitch slams the paywall down on the smoking ruins of ExTwitter? All these perfectly crafted missives, lost from plebeian view. Such a tragedy.

1. no
2. no, (follows from 1)
3. no, but space exploration by drones with semi-autonomous decision making might be feasible. The power levels for such tech will have to go way down though.
4. define "mass transition". I believe a lot of jobs that require humans now (like customer support) will be enthusiastically robotized, but not that that outcome will be postive for either the workers or consumers. I doubt it will be more that maybe 10% of the total workforce though.
5. like someone mentioned, we can see "artificial intelligences" (corporations) do bad things right now and we aren't stopping them. Considering everybody in AI research subconsciously subscribes to the California ideology, there's no way they have the introspection to truly design an "aligned" AI.

So LW is just a fanfic appreciation forum, got it.