I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Today marks the end of what is surely one of the worst terms in #SCOTUS history. Guns and prayer and abortion got most of the attention. But that's not all the Court did. Here are just some of the Court's bad decisions:
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It is a little hard for me to take the hand-wringing about non-violent protests outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices seriously when the Supreme Court itself ruled protests outside the homes of *doctors who provide abortions* is protected by the 1st amendment.
@LoriCKW@anteuzi The birth rate is declining and they want to combat it. But people can’t afford children because they can’t afford education because they aren’t paid worth a damn which means they aren’t afforded higher paying jobs. Funny all these plans to oppresses the working class backfire.
“Between 2002 and 2018, Americans saw the cost of housing rise 26 percent, the cost of health care rise 35 percent, and the cost of education rise 70 percent.” - @AlecJRoss
When politicians use faith as an excuse to pass and uphold laws that seize control of people’s bodies but not guarantee them healthcare, feed the poor, shelter the homeless, or welcome the stranger, you have to wonder if it’s really about faith at all.
Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus. Any suggestion that a president might not respect this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable.
Trump just had peaceful demonstrators viciously attacked. No, Mr. President. This is not a dictatorship. This is the United States of America. Our citizens have a constitutional right to peacefully protest. It's called the First Amendment.
Guy at airport, seeing my laptop sticker: Do you work for @Textio?
Me: I do.
Guy: that’s awesome, I’m super good friends with your CEO.
Me: oh yeah?
Guy: yeah we used to work together. Awesome dude.
Me: I’ll tell him you said hi!