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I’m puzzled by your view but also curious. What’s short term about the climate crisis? And with intensifying authoritarianism what do you think is going to reverse our current trajectory? And what do you think determines whether standard o
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Realistically climate catastrophe seems worse to me yes than living as a peasant or ancient Egyptian. Our choices aren’t so limited however. But if you mean we should look at our standard of living today and appreciate them, let’s examine
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With a wave of a billionaire’s hand, officials are elected, the constitution undone, a dictator installed, a new political party formed. This political structure is oligarchy not democracy. Due process, on the other hand, is a fundamental r
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Billionaires have funded a coup, supported climate change, mass surveillance, and a genocide in Gaza. Why are they not held to account for their wrongdoing but immigrants are being sent to concentration camps without due process for t
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It’s strange to me that we see people being rounded up and sent to concentration camps and many people consider lawfulness to be sufficient justification. No, right and wrong don’t derive from laws. It’s supposed to be the other way round.
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VC funding subsidizing the entry of these firms into the market. Few competitors contributing to pricing power among these firms. Network effects arising from coordinating the multi-sided market of drivers, restaurants, and consumers. Earl
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Inequality is built into our society’s structure - capitalism divides people into two classes - workers and owners. The level of wealth inequality in the current world is quite extreme. Even if you accept some degree of it because “it’s alw
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Business owners make their profits from simply owning their businesses. Workers profit by producing value and getting compensated for a portion of the value they produce - the rest going to business costs and owners. Why would higher worker
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Actually most democracies extend freedom of expression to everyone including immigrants. Withholding a visa by a government due to political statements is retaliation and retaliation is a method of suppressing someone’s free speech.
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Perhaps it’s not a conspiracy so much that denying technology’s broader context provides a bit of comforting escapism from the depressing realities around us. Unfortunately I think this escapism, while understandable, may not always be op
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It seems as if the buzz around AI is so intoxicating that people forgo basic reasoning about the world around them. The recent Grok video where Elon is giddy about Grok’s burgeoning capabilities. Altman’s claims that AI will usher in a new
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we don’t get our rights from our government. It can only recognize these rights. Free speech is a human right whether or not a government recognizes it. People under an authoritarian regime still have a human right to free speech even if
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The issue is retaliating against free speech using the visa process. A person doesn’t have a right to a visa but they have right to free speech. Using the visa process to retaliate against free speech violates a foundational principle of ou
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> If you posted social media saying you wanted to overthrow the Japanese government, would Japan be okay with it or would they put you in jail and/or deport you? This administration already considers protesting genocide a “threat t
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> We need to make sure that the AI is a good AI. And the thing that i think is most important for AI safety, at least my biological neural net tells me the most important thing for AI is to be maximally truth-seeking. so this is very fun
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That’s because it’s not really brand destruction so much as normalizing the support for fascism by a brand.
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First off, if you change something as an engineer you are responsible for testing it before deploying it to production. Besides they intentionally changed the system prompt to make it more politically incorrect. (It’s because they hold a un
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Simply because a court followed the letter of the law doesn’t make its decision just. Unjust societies from time immemorial have utilized courts to legitimize all sorts of rotten things. Claiming that the court is right to throw consumers
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> The real question is can they do a better job than no therapist. That's the option people face. Right, we don’t turn this around and collectively choose socialized medicine. Instead we appraise our choices as atomized consumers: d
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Yeah cause this niche product is the structural source of the problems he cites.
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Rapidly increased energy use from fossil fuels (despite up to half coming from renewables), is simply not good enough. We are likely in the process of exceeding the 1.5 degree threshold targeted by the Paris Climate Accords. Making gestures
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Several companies investing in AI Have made commitments to renewable and clean energy. However at most half of this increased energy demand is expected to come from renewables through 2030 and fossil fuels will continue to be heavily utiliz
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> it is supposed to usher the humanity into a new prosperous age (somehow). More like usher in climate catastrophe way ahead of schedule. AI-driven data center build outs are a major source of new energy use, and this trend is only inten
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> “Verbally they said it was because of extremist propaganda and narcotic paraphernalia," with "extremist propaganda" referring to the alleged meme With the “narcotic paraphernalia” referring to “a photo of the traveler wi
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> I don't think there's much to worry about with AI energy use AI is a large motivating factor in data center build outs, and data centers are projected to form an increasing portion of new energy usage. An individual query may
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Retaliation against free speech is completely normalized at this point. Primarily this administration has gone after large targets (recent Paramount case, the universities) and symbolic targets (students, a mayoral candidate). The circle of
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He claims to be advancing progress. He believes that progress comes from technology plus good governance. Yet our government is descending into authoritarianism and AI is fueling rising data center energy demands exacerbating the climate cr
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The reason is our government and regulators are captured by business concerns which profit from our data. The government in turn views mass surveillance as a powerful tool for social control. Although there are many more people whose priva
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In the short term horizon I think you are right. But over a longer horizon, we should expect model providers to internalize these mechanisms, similar to how chain of thought has been effectively “internalized” - which in turn has reduced th
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There is no need to develop this ‘skill’. This can all be automated as a preprocessing step before the main request runs. Then you can have agents with infinite context, etc.

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