@_ueaj@hecubian_devil Unfortunately the NYC-DSA tech action working group OC is marginalizing anyone who raises these concerns and labels them as disorganizers and EAs. They have put forth a hostile amendment to the safety res that is proposed. Perhaps the national org will do better but I doubt it
"How do single-celled algae swim toward light sources" is the kind of project that gets DOGE'd—how does this help Americans?
20 years later, the underlying protein is a central tool in human neuroscience.
We're a rich country, we should be funding way more basic science.
more people should read Parmenides to get the experience of being rhetorically dunked on by a chain of locally valid-seeming steps
the human value function is quite weak over words. it's good to be wary of long arguments playing with meanings and sliding around radial categories
if you’ve deluded yourself into thinking you’re “rational,” it’s easy to mistake kneejerk contrarianism for high decoupling. or as momma engineer said, “don’t get too open-minded or your brain might fall out your ears!”
Curtis Sliwa is like the first major antagonist of a shonen battle manga who seems like such a bad guy but he eventually gets so ingratiated to the main group that you forget he wasn’t always there
quite unfortunate for the fate of humanity that so many important and now-relevant topics have primarily been thought about by people who are so damn weird
TESCREAL is roughly as useful concept for understanding AI debates as IPATMAT is for understanding conflicts in the Middle East.
In case you're wondering, IPATMAT stands for Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, Turks, Muslims, Americans and Tasmanians.
What IPATMAT adherents (mostly) have in common is that they hold opinions about the borders and governance of various territories in Middle East. Sure, the opinions often contradict each other, and many IPATMATists spend much attention fighting other IPATMATists. But IPATMAT concept gives you a single ideology you can blame for wars, suicide attacks and all sorts of extremism.
Why Tasmanians? Mostly to make the acronym sound better - similarly to C in TESCREAL representing Cosmism, which usually refers to a 19th century Russian philosophy mostly not present in debates about AI.