Zach Glaser ⏸️

Climate PhD student at Caltech. Listless young adult and blogger.

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@tautologer Patriot (2015)

A depressed spy and the difficulty of moving things from point A to point B

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

I'm going insane having to keep pointing this out.

A MAP CRACKING UNDER A 15 POINT DEFICIT DOES NOT MAKE IT A "DUMMYMANDER"!

House gerrymanders are to maximize chances of having the majority in a close election. If you lose by 15 points, you're already not getting the majority!

[Ben Gross @bengrossbg]

re: grad student unions

Everyone, everywhere, has a fundamental right to assemble and organize. The idea that grad students and researchers don’t because they like their job is nothing more than a violation of the fundamental principles of democratic action in free societies

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Corey_Leander Oh so you're RACIST racist

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

Just horrific, gutter-level islamaphobia

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Islamoleftism really does not like Hinduism, so this is plausible

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Corey_Leander @Noahpinion Given he thinks El-Sayed is an "Islamoleftist", it's called the Democrats! https://t.co/X5SzpA26zl

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Islamoleftism is a real thing

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Corey_Leander ?? Vague I realize, but given my research spans from remote sensing of thunderstorm development in CONUS to computational models of sea salt aerosol it's hard to summarize!

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@PaperCutVet Yeah, lmao, I'm aware. Don't understand how he fancies himself a Liberal when he clearly doesn't believe in the equality of man!

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Noahpinion That's a good way of putting it!

Happy to pollute the feeds of those corrupting my party with an anti-humanist politics

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Noahpinion Brother, you have 47380x more followers than me, I don't really mind the ratio

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

What a strange, strange man

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

@ziglaser Wait, so I'm:
* A gutter Islamophobe,
* A genocidal Zionist, AND
* A Judeofascist?????!!!

Damn bro, you're shooting so much ammo at me, I don't even EXIST anymore

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Noahpinion Nah, you're just any of those things more than any real person is an "Islamoleftist"

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Noahpinion Woah, woah, woah, I didn't call you either of those things! Though I suppose under your prefered verbiage it would be appropriate to label people like you "judeofascists", right?

Just a term with totally neutral, non-antisemitic connotation...

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch Most billionaires aren't effective altruists, and most effective altruists are't billionaires

I take seriously the notion that everyone's life is equal. Deciding where to donate from my small salary, I find it fairer to choose where it goes farthest rather than who I like most!

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch Eugenics against who though... eugenics was specifically against non-white people and people with disabilities

I struggle with how to parse ethical considerations for the young and old, how to weigh experience and remaining life, but everyone is equal to the process of aging!

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@Noahpinion Eh, I mean, I think the BIG GUNS have more to do with your defense of the mass killings of Palestinians

I think calling this gutter-level islamaphobia as more of like, a neutral observation of fact

[Max Nadeau @MaxNadeau_]

Anthropic has been getting a lot of criticism for their redactions, so I'd like to say that it seems like a hard tradeoff and I don't think the public knows enough to judge whether they're making it correctly.

But more importantly, METR's report leads me to think that Anthropic will be able to let their AIs recursively-self improve past human-level capabilities next year.

I think that would be unconscionable. I hope they choose not to do so, but I don't think the wider world should leave that decision in their hands.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

This is pretty much how things have gone...

ANTHROPIC: "AI is extremely perilous and should be carefully regulated"

CALIFORNIA GOV: "Ok, we will regulate you."

ANTHROPIC: "No! Good regulation is really hard to get right. We know so little about what to do. Instead we should let companies carefully iterate over time."

CALIFORNIA GOV: "Oh ok. How about we do a thing where you get to write what the rules are but we will hold you to them? Then you can make your own commitments as you think is best but they will be true commitments!"

ANTHROPIC: "Nah, we'd rather make fake commitments."

CALIFORNIA GOV: ...

[Zach Glaser ⏸️ @ziglaser]

@AndrewCurran_ It's incorrect, and imo demeaning to say they were pointless, it's worth trying even if it doesn't pan out! The current state of things wasn't inevitable, I'm glad people were trying their hardest even if it seems it won't work