Shri Samson Wis/acc

Kindly pursuing the Truth and the Good wherever it leads. ❤️ Precise, falsifiable claims, and strong evidence. If I say you're wrong, it's because I love you.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@viceroy_gaga @Reboticant Stating a guess as a fact means you are just a bullshitter.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@Reboticant @viceroy_gaga What is your source for this? AFICT flirt girls were paid the California minimum wage because of labor laws, not profit sharing in any sense.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@viceroy_gaga @literally_chad At the risk of mansplaining, pimping: I doubt the organizers are getting any cut of the future revenue of any sex worker that attended.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@viceroy_gaga @literally_chad The flirt girls had to apply and were paid the California minimum wage, as I understand, because of California labor law. Very few of them were active sex workers, I guess somewhere between 1-5% out of over a hundred women. Many women attended for free as a +1 of an attendee.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@NathanMcNulty @ZackKorman @grok on balance, do you think bans reduce the supply of a technology in society? Some positive examples are treaties around nuclear/biological/chemical weapons, gun bans in Australia, automatic rifles in the United States. Look at counter examples. Where does frontier AI fit?

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

This hinge of history is starting to feel very hingy

[David Shor @davidshor]

Just to update this chart:

1) AI salience has increased dramatically in the past week - increasing as much in the last week as the previous year combined
2) 80% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI will cause widespread job loss in the five to ten years
3) 64% of voters think it's either very or somewhat likely that AI could pose a threat to humanity's survival
4) Large bipartisan majorities back immediate government action on AI even when primed about risk from China

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@Aella_Girl I hope it keeps getting developed. It's the best FB and dating app killer I've found.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@TylerAlterman normie-passing wierdo is a great phrase.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

Dozens of hours of consent education distilled—Say what you specifically want to do with someone, and accept any answer they give.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

We have over 100 RSVPs so far and I'd love for you to join us!
https://t.co/A6bkbWoDgT

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

I’m helping organize the next Stop the AI Race protest on Sat, July 11th 12pm. We’re asking OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to commit to a pause to frontier AI development if other labs would do the same. We'll be holding rallies in front of OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind in SF.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@sergeantsup There's a name for this! The "Women are Wonderful" effect.
https://t.co/dnlGPGiIeT

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@QiaochuYuan @Thomasdelvasto_ @grok what is the base rate of a child being sexual assaulted in the US?

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@Chesedgirl Congrats!

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@Aella_Girl Neuroticism is strongly correlated with happiness in general; I'd expect this for any X being good or bad. It'd be interesting to find something with this opposite trends.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@GaryMarcus @ProtagorasTO @FT What evidence would change your mind then?

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@The_Kyle_Mann @Amtrak @grok what is the likelihood of dying from an assault in an Amtrak train compared to dying in a car accident per passenger mile traveled?

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

Many AI executives have said they think the tech they're building has a worryingly high chance of ruining the world. Props to Demis for acknowledging the obvious implication: that ideally, the whole world should stop this reckless racing.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@humantransit @snarkmawchuk @SpencrGreenberg I'd try Gemini; it's a better for dealing with very large documents and haystack problems.

[Shri Samson Wis/acc @SSamson89]

@DanielcHooper Specialized knowledge isn't necessary. "This is slow, make it faster" -> loops become vectorized.

I'd be curious if just giving high-level feedback is enough for it to make the specific optimizations you want.