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[nathan @toothofdog]

@mattyglesias he's just totally confused about what "moral progress" means. in any case, liberals have already made the point he's actually making, except better: https://t.co/y2a82uDVqA

[nathan @toothofdog]

1) incredible that the people who complain the original position is "incoherent" are now saying stuff like this 2) this confuses moral progress with standing to blame 3) liberals have made this point for decades, see "sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility" for ex.

[wanye @xwanyex]

My biggest problem with most forms of modern liberalism is that I reject that we’ve made substantial moral progress over the last few hundred years. You are not the moral superiors of your ancestors. I think, in fact, you’re just lucky to be alive in a time where it’s possible to express alternative moral positions, because of technological progress and improved material conditions. I think that you’d behave exactly as your ancestors did, given the same information and constraints under which they labored.

And I think, further, the outrageous narcissism and arrogance that results from believing that all human beings up until about five minutes ago were racist and sexist pieces of shit is really deranging people’s sense of society and of their place in it.

And this, ultimately, makes them their ancestors’ moral inferiors in most ways that matter.

[nathan @toothofdog]

@alexrmoskowitz okay i get that this is a dunk but NIU is one of the better philosophy MA programs in the US and Arizona was a top 15 PhD program in the early-mid 2010s

[nathan @toothofdog]

yo why does this guy kinda look like the mustard blud

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Pulled up to DC to fix the Anti-datacenter vibes

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

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[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

Continued technological progress exposes potential flaws in capitalism. Exactly as Marx predicted

[nathan @toothofdog]

@originalwololo unrelated but i like ur carbot infestor pfp

[nathan @toothofdog]

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[tomie @tomieinlove]

Well, my fourth application to Anthropic was just rejected, this time with Dario personally telling me to never contact him again. No matter. Due to recent visions, I now realize I’m the younger brother of Jesus Christ

[nathan @toothofdog]

i think this is what the rationalists call “missing a mood”…

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

[nathan @toothofdog]

@RaykiruS @ChazakielDoremi in any case both one boxers and two boxers agree that one boxers make more money, they just disagree about how/whether this matters

[nathan @toothofdog]

@RaykiruS @ChazakielDoremi ah my bad, got the percentage wrong! but my point was that whether the predictor is perfect or merely reasonably accurate changes little about the situation, so it seems like we agree?

[nathan @toothofdog]

there's a reason why he's the goat

[nathan @toothofdog]

one of my favorite parts of after virtue is when macintyre goes off on a tangent to refute the idea in the quote below and then randomly drops an argument for why ai alignment would be extremely hard: truly a book that keeps giving!

[Jonas Čeika @Jonas_Ceika]

INCREDIBLE quote from the 1976 movie The Network

[nathan @toothofdog]

@NathanpmYoung regardless of the merits of the policy, her tweet seems perfectly responsive to the original claim?

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

I understand why they're doing it, but it's kind of funny that people who changed the Department of Defense's name to the "Department of War", explaining that real men don't hide behind euphemisms, now refuse to formally acknowledge the obvious fact that America is at war.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Full-grown adults discussing elite college admissions is genuinely one of the most boring possible forms of discourse.

[deepfates @deepfates]

Anthropic was just wisdomgooning and mind their own business when Ivy League Pete showed on some maga communism type shi. So Dario went gigachad and ideologymogged him like actually no we're libmaxxing we believe in the rule of law. and it totally spiked Pete's cortisol

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR