Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. An odd aspect of discussing serious threats is the amount of concern people express about you causing other people to be concerned. This kind of makes sense for interlocutors who don’t believe in the Continue reading
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Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. Some things you might learn from games are pretty blatant: Trivial Pursuit might teach you trivia, MasterType might teach you about typing, Grand Theft Auto might teach you about driving or crime. But sometimes Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. I’ve really wanted more good short accounts of why AI poses an existential risk. Working on one myself has been one of those incredibly high priorities I keep putting off. Meanwhile award-winning journalist Ben Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. often worry that people are being too deferential about their beliefs. I also hear others worrying about this, and nobody seemingly worrying about the reverse, except perhaps my friends and therapists (and I guess Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. A common view around me seems to be that journalists are frequently dishonorable and dangerous, and talking to them is a risk to be avoided unless you have a very specific piece of information Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. Every way I know to store clothes I hate, to a first approximation. I hate my current nominal method: keeping them folded on open-front shelves, because they fall out on the floor and I Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. Suppose you and Bobby the car salesman are haggling over the price of a car. You could try saying that you won’t pay more than $3k, but Bobby can equally retort that he won’t Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. It’s not always better to be more capable. As I mentioned yesterday, it can (famously) be helpful in negotiations to have your hands tied. That is, to be disempowered from giving up everything the Continue reading
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. It’s early in the morning, and sadly 1:29pm. After spending some time looking at things and picking them up and walking up the stairs and down the stairs and considering questions like “what should Continue reading