Alex Measure

Machine learning, natural language processing, programming, and better government.

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@signulll Aura doesn't put food on the table in mega yacht.

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@DavidSacks @stratechery They are making a strong case for regulation or nationalization.

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@Steve_Yegge It reminds me of the South Park episode where they find the cure for AIDS and everyone in some poor AIDS ravaged village is celebrating. Then someone asks, what's the cure, and the cure is just having lots of money and so everyone is sad. Replace cure for AIDS with AGI.

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@jeremyphoward @bfockter @karpathy It's a cartoonishly evil act, but also really dumb. Like c'mon guys, you aren't Gods yet, why are you telling us you plan to be evil ones.

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@mattyglesias I dunno how much to trust this one poll, but you see it in Trump's success too. A lot of voters were deeply alienated by the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements and these scandals mark him as "not one of those".

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@mattyglesias Because corporate earnings, especially in fast growing IT sectors, are easily avoided through reinvestment while capital valuation grows astronomically?

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@GaryMarcus There are lots of potentially winner-take-all markets that could be unlocked by AI advances. The most frequently discussed one is recursive self improvement.

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@mmjukic Institutional inertia does not come from the intelligence of the person that created it, basically all the major governmental institutions were developed by people completely ignorant of modern biology, physics, economics, information technology, etc.

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@bschne Pope Claudius.

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@holynski_ GTA VI

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@paulg The guy planting potatoes makes something people want. So does the guy repairing the road the busy highway, the best public school teacher in the world, and the police officer stopping a serial killer. None of them makes even a million.

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@davidshor @Nate_Cohn @jbarro @SeanTrende Proportional representation seems like a much better system and it solves the issue completely at the tiny cost of strict locality guarantee.

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@AmanTGeorge @JHWeissmann My pregnant wife nearly got clobbered by one on an H street NE sidewalk. It's awful, motorized vehicles should not be allowed on sidewalks.

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@robinhanson I mean, how do you explain to someone that this guy over here, who looks a lot like you, has similar education, deserves 7 million times as much money as you? Does he work 7 million times harder? Is he 7 million times smarter? How are people supposed to rationalize this?

[Rachael Bedard @RBMD1982]

Oh wow. @nytopinion published a real, firsthand account by a mother, Rebecca Archer, who lost her daughter to SSPE - the late stage, nightmare measles complication. The piece is excruciating.

“She was rapidly slipping away. The nurses tested her strength each day, and each day she was getting weaker. I remember giving her a bath. She said, “Mom, get in.” So I did, and I brushed her hair. When she tried to get out, she fell. After that, we started using a wheelchair.”

https://t.co/c7tDLeaBK5

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@nikitabier @BillyM2k Why not fact check every post and share what it finds?

[Chengpeng @CPMou2022]

This isn’t an edge case. From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:
• ~2M weekly messages on health insurance
• ~600K weekly messages from people living in “hospital deserts” (30 min drive to nearest hospital)
• 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours

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@SahilBloom @thesundaylight A light? Was quite revolutionary when it was invented 140 years ago.

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@paulg What do unions have to do with it?

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@RobertOnley @ColinPClarke @KofmanMichael He is the commander in chief, the words of the commander determine the military objectives. You can't have a moron at the top and expect everyone below to be able to fix it.