Benjamin Hause

phd philosophy, building - would love your feedback!

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@hieudinh_ the real photo looks great

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@raroque looks nice. did you use an external service for deep linking or was claude code able to whip it up for you?

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

that’s essentially how i feel about ai doomerism. come up with all the sleek arguments you want for it -- but the only thing it invokes in me is fond memories of the philosophy seminar.

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

i think one reason i am not inclined towards ai doomerism is that all the arguments i hear for it are highly theoretical, and i’m generally skeptical of theoretical reasoning.

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

but philosophers don’t go around accepting every crazy argument they read. no, we understand that theoretical reasoning is unreliable, and so these arguments almost all  have flaws that are simply hard to to identify.

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@Liv_Boeree done! there's no waiting or anything, takes just 1 min!

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.

The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.

We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.

Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.

The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at [phone] and tell them to vote NO.

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@nocodecoder I haven't tried OpenCode or Kimi but I imagine it works about the same

[Paul Graham @paulg]

ICE just shot and killed a woman Minneapolis. A US citizen. How long before we say "Enough is enough?"

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@haleyparkdesign really wonderful

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

Imagine almost living long enough to reach the age of human immortality but then you die and just have to be reincarnated as a cockroach forever

[Naval @naval]

Creation without a creator is meaningless.

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@haoxingdu ya i noticed that too

[Jake @JustJake]

What we do for money, what we choose to build

These say a lot about who we are

I work hard every day because this is not the future I would like to live in

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

@louisvarge https://t.co/AhUE2TmRBw

[Benjamin Hause @HauseBenjamin]

Just learned about a project @louisvarge is working on - you can literally pay people to switch from low to high welfare chicken and get receipts. Sounds really cool. Link below

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

New episode w @Lewis_Bollard - a deep dive on the surprising economics of the meat industry.

0:00:00 – The astonishing efficiency of factory farming
0:07:18 – It was a mistake making this about diet
0:09:54 – Tech that’s sparing 100s of millions of animals/year
0:16:16 – Brainless chickens and higher welfare breeds
0:28:21 – $1 can prevent 10 years of animal suffering
0:37:26 – The situation in China and the developing world
0:41:41 – How the meat lobby got a lock on Congress
0:53:23 – Business structure of the meat industry
0:57:42 – Corporate campaigns are underrated

Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc (look up Dwarkesh Podcast).