Veedrac

The Terms are not the Map.

[Veedrac @TheRealVeedrac]

@carl_feynman @Philip_Mundhen3 I think you're misreading the post you're replying to? It doesn't say anything negative about Drexler. It's saying that nanomachines could achieve more than signalling chemicals.

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@JosephPolitano A bureaucrat would never just give a 73 quintillion percent tariff. It's always like 73,100,000,001,780,105,193%.

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@JosephPolitano Ok Joey you didn't need to hike them another 50% to prove your point.

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@JosephPolitano Does this actually stop imports? Solar panel prices have something like a 44% learning curve. This puts you back a lot, but a lot is still less than two years.

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@ArmandDoma That setting your house on fire is a bad idea doesn't then imply that controlled burning never works in general. It definitely does!

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@KelseyTuoc Hmm, I had a different interpretation of The Good Place, which is that it started with a depiction of intuitionist morality, and slowly, painfully slowly, guided its viewer away. So to object to the initial framing is to agree with the point the show was making.

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@ptrschmdtnlsn It seems not that hard to believe Harvard fails to organizationally want things that would benefit it to have.

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@ptrschmdtnlsn The question only says I'm unarmed. The goose might have a gun.

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@Algon_33 @ESYudkowsky That's not kosher.

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@ESYudkowsky Doesn't this heavily discount the viability of human intelligence augmentation?

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@moebio So did I.
https://t.co/uQb79V8ucJ

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH If you think the beliefs you ascribed to TracingWoodgrains are legitimate models of their motivations, then I'm sorry but your party has destroyed your ability to think, and parties that destroy their members' ability to think are bad.

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH Thinking the Democratic Party is full of self-destructive hatred like this that prevents them from being effective and enables evil. Wanting to solve problems based on technical understanding rather than scapegoat. Caring also about the people the Democrats choose to hate.

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH The hatred inherent in building a party ideology where anything short of absolute agreement is “Literally Evil” is not dependent on or even related to relativism.

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH So the point of labelling the people is? What are people meant to take from that except scorn and exclusion?

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH What is the difference, when the action that results is to label them as capital-e Evil either way?

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@diskursgeist @tracewoodgrains @SlatorH This kind of unconditional hate is a large part of what drives people to the right.

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@benlandautaylor @Vaniver Wikipedia, 2015
https://t.co/hUkQME1W5e

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@benlandautaylor Claiming that in late 2023 you were prescient based on the claim that AGI wasn't a separate term from ASI in a tweet that assumes AI winter sure is a spin.