young_opsimath ⏸️

An Effective Altruist in grad school who's interested in catastrophic risk reduction and the welfare of non-human animals.

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@gazorpazorp28 @svarasura @ryancbriggs I disagree with your entire model of the world. I think you have landed on exactly all the wrong casual factors.

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@chicfryrice @bubbleboi Median H1B earns $120K, median American wage is ~$65K

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@herbivoryze 1. You need a team, some credence
2. Connection with professionals who have thought about the problem
3. A really solid pitch, why this conference should happen, what it aims to achieve, etc
4. Funding, Navigation Fund is maybe your best bet contingent on 1-3 being fulfilled

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@Im_actuallyacat @1a3orn I'm sure the book's authors are not 100% certain

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@__mihir What about those who go to Claude huh

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@smugjd @MariGO2thepolls If a "ton" of us were, I would've seen it or heard about it during IRL meet ups and conferences. Further, those discussions would have dominated the forum, shaped community events and goals, etc.

Seems plausible that your perception is majorly skewed by online chatter.

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@medjedowo @AndyMasley Nope

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@trist_cole @realalpha2000 I guess higher religiosity makes cooperation harder. Anyway, I'm sure there is someone out there who fits the constraints, good luck.

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Phrased this way, it sounds beautiful 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

A Hindu Gujarati Indian guy using Scandinavian pagan heaven to honor a Midwestern Protestant Christian

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@NothingIsArt Tbf, better than life in the wild

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@a_musingcat Based on priors, probably a nut job with a vague right lean but opinions all over the place

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@robertwiblin Data collection/methodology artifact?

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@austinc3301 @ludwigABAP She's tried so hard to make it her thing! People just don't care as much about the AI RiSk iNdUsTrIaL cOmpLeX and are rightly spooked about AI

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@funnyjaye125691 @panickssery Ok, but Noah, Yglesias, and Klein constantly talk about correcting economic failures. Yglesias has definitely written about demographic concerns.

It's more likely that they believe social media is one of many issues that leads to right wing surges, but not the only one!

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@FeralPHunter Turns out it's literally true

https://t.co/BYZbY3AYNc

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media

Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions https://t.co/IUy6sTcmI1 via @jburnmurdoch

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A take: LinkedIn is the healthiest social media platform right now.

Hot take: We should Linkedin-ify all social media. Yes, it's a good thing when every other post is not a video of someone dying!