Gabriel

[Gabriel @are_glib]

*To the tune of Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon'* QAAAAAAAAAAnon

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

I generally hate pleasure, happiness, and fun. So you should take seriously when I concur with the conventional wisdom that the mood in NYC is extremely good right now.

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

- i'm angry about this because i personally and for others want access to fable, and simultaneously believe anthropic's safeguards were sufficient and the US government badly misunderstood the information they were presented
- but in abstract this is in fact exactly what I want. it's heartening to see the USG treat artificial intelligence with the seriousness and immediacy it deserves. this kind of swift action is what might have a chance of saving us from unaligned RSI.
- but i also very much don't trust *this* government to handle this well, to take sane unilateral action, to chart any kind of correct path.
- and this escalates the global race enormously. this is as strong a signal as you can get to, not just China but the EU and even our closest allies, that the US will not be sharing this advantage. that if they want sovereignty they're going to have to fight for it
- obviously, that was always the case, and it was always going to happen eventually. but i don't think now was the time to send that signal. it would have been better to delay as long as possible.

very mixed feelings today

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

I'm so much more afraid of this than being murdered on the subway. Now I'm not _that_ afraid of either, to be clear. But being killed by a random car is just so much more likely. It happens literally every third day. (As opposed to not even once a month.)
https://t.co/GGDNo5D6dQ

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

There should be like 50 landmarks in NYC, the other 37,500 are basically nonsense designed to keep new housing from being built lol

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

when i was a baby my dad was driving me late at night and a drunk driver asleep at the wheel hit us head-on. my dad was in a coma for weeks. i needed hundreds of stitches. i still have a massive scar.

many years later, i got to work at waymo during the first few years we were testing, launching, and scaling in sf. there was a huge amount to do, but it all felt pretty fucking amazing when we got to see logs like this. superhuman moments.

it's easy to write off these things as just another expensive uber competitor for techies who don't want to talk to people. but humans behind the wheel are one of the top causes of death and injury globally. and one day not long from now self driving cars will make the kinds of accidents that happened to me a thing of the past.

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@ettingermentum "utilitarians must like Bush because pepfar cancels out Iraq" is myopic. The bare minimum utilitarian life-saving from a US president is maybe three pepfars and zero wars

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@dontfallforem @grochbegley "If someone kills you in a car, they go to jail" no they don't

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

It looks to me like telegrams were the optimal level of social communication technology, and society began to disintegrate after voice radio was invented, though not to the same extent as it began to collapse after television.

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

OMG they're about to press the 'fix everything now' button!

[Gabriel @are_glib]

the depression of meeting someone who seems cool and then finding out they work for meta

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@aaronminnis @ettingermentum national voters largely haven't heard of it so aren't fatigued

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney's post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University.

[near @nearcyan]

it's low-status to have ethical concerns in silicon valley. people give you a buzzkilling glare. gambling for kids? they love it, check out our revenue. finetuning chatgpt to maximize conversation length? what, do you hate innovation? investing in directly competing companies? cmon man we're saving humanity here and im the main character

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@ettingermentum agreed that Dems in particular have fucked this up badly but is there a lower favorability ceiling now due to polarization?

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@GladysDaycare @shaabiranks impossible to participate in society without working for Blackwater

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Meta is by far my least favorite big tech company and it’s precisely because they’re willing to ship awful, dystopian stuff like this

No inspiring vision, just endless slop and a desire to “win”

[Gabriel @are_glib]

@i_zzzzzz electrolytes are essential for a fleet-footed Cypriot like yourself

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I often got called “an old soul” and such like by adults when I was a child. I think this was a kind way of saying I was a sad little freak