Bjørn Fesche

Robot optometrist, currently maximizing KL divergence.

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Intelligent and well intentioned people can disagree about anything.

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@lymanstoneky Aren’t they mostly well within the time of Christian cultural influence?

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@meaning_enjoyer Say more? I usually share your outlook (based on your tweets) so I’m curious to know why you’d think it’s such a settled case.

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@willccbb @leothecurious Say more?

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@willmacaskill Really enjoyed your latest on 80k. Your ideas around making sure we can negotiate with AI struck me as both fresh and hopeful (a rare and welcome combination)

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@lucyfarnik @mattyglesias @NathanpmYoung I mean, to the extent that these people are conflating a set of orgs which mostly gives money to global health and the like with a subset of people/orgs/donation streams which works on other things, I think that’s fair

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@lucyfarnik @mattyglesias @NathanpmYoung Ime there’s a lot of overlap! People who start out by caring about doing good and realizing there might be very different ways of doing so.

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@memeticsisyphus Hell yeah man. Well put.

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@AageB Bra for ham. Akademisk ytringsfrihet er viktig, og en norm som har erodert de siste årene.

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@KelseyTuoc You’ve attracted a staggering amount of vitriol for this, so let me add my bit to the counterbalance and say you’re a uniquely sane and good person.

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@captgouda24 @GhostCoase @my_vallentyne What the fuck man

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@phl43 I keep trying to explain to my mom that «summoning a genie» is much closer to right than «programming» is.

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@ThomasVLinge Touches the soul, every time

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@Not_Gilmore @NLRG_it Bravo!

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@Bob_Somebody021 @darwiniandharma @RichardHanania Fires preferentially for foreigners. And also what seems like a ridiculously costly subsidy for immigrants to you feels like a just distribution of a scarce resource (London housing) in a way that avoids the unjust market, which is always tilted in favor of the rich

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@Bob_Somebody021 @darwiniandharma @RichardHanania Spoon (i.e. white Londoners). Like I’ve said many times, I don’t contest that you’re making a solid rhetorical attack with «look how your morals make you discriminate against your own», but that’s different from saying lefty types have an empathy circuit which

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@Bob_Somebody021 @darwiniandharma @RichardHanania And, granted, far away «in culture»

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@Bob_Somebody021 @darwiniandharma @RichardHanania But the thing I care about wrt «telescopic altruism» is how much we owe people far away in time and space.