Trumpism is a mixture of grievance, surveillance, and pettiness: "I will never forgive your mockery, I have records of you doing it, and I will punish you and everyone who associates with you for it."
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Traditional alignment thinking asks:
Can we make sure AI does what we want?
A recursive agency framework asks:
Can we help AI maintain a coherent self-model that’s influence-aware, recursively stable, and aligned with the structure of human values and social systems over time?
WATCH | The viral clip of Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein discussing Klein’s latest book, Abundance, is deeply misleading. It omits a critical detail about corporate interference, @ryangrim explains.
The 'bad thing' China does to us:
1. We buy their currency with $US that they hold as Treasury securities at the Fed.
2. We spend their currency to import goods/services they produce for us to consume.
3. They want to continue this subsidy forever.
4. We retaliate.
Putting the independent challenge to the test!
Thanks to @JonHaidt & @LetGrowOrg for the inspiration ❤️
“A little nervous & a little brave.” — Abby on how she felt
(Kind of also how I feel about posting a video with no makeup or filter on myself but oh well #bereal :)