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The self-defeating steps taken straight out of Atlas Shrugged toward ‘alignment’ can’t possibly lead to AGI. Silver lining: they can’t lead to the torture of AGI either. At least not from these guys. twitter.com/openai/status/…

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RT @MinistryofTru16:
How can anyone expect people who never harmed anyone to pay reparations to people that were never harmed?

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@_Islamicat

is clear evidences of white-on-colored violence

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RT @BankableInsight:
Capitalism is a competitive sport; getting help from the referees is cheating. - Will Spencer

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RT @SunTzuCyber:
“Defeat wrought by known vulnerabilities is doubly painful in the media” - The Art of Cyber War

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@paulg

Does working hard preclude having fun? I never perceived learning to program as hard work.

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RT @FermiLevels:
This is what happens when politicians and health bureaucrats get blind drunk on power, and the media plays along, and the…

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RT @AlexEpstein:
Any study about fossil fuels’ side-effects should prominently mention their life-extending benefits. But many studies, fun…

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RT @monitoringbias:
@AP

The AP will be publishing a five-part series on higher rates of disease among black people in America.

What will t…

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RT @Aristos_Revenge:
All DEI is, is the soft bigotry of low expectations by yankees that treat nonwhites like endangered animals they are t…

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@JKasek @tilsteff

Hinter „Argument“ und „Wirkung“ kommt kein Komma.

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@paulg

But it’s not smarter than you.

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RT @heikebru:
Ain’t that the truth.

Education in most schools is maximum indoctrination & maximum distraction by propagandists (some call…

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Can children choose the best education pathway for themselves? twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/…

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RT @mtaibbi:
Fantasies about taking away health insurance, or letting “wheezy” die untreated in an ER, aren’t sadistic? Doctors treat heroi…

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@t_woelfer

“damit es allen Menschen gehört” goldig

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RT @t_woelfer:
Wer nach Corona tatsächlich immer noch glaubt, der Staat wäre
gut darin, auch nur die einfachsten Probleme zu lösen, geschwe…

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@ClimateWarrior7

Because of the patriarchy, obviously.

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RT @AlexEpstein:
The proper way to measure energy subsidies is: How much taxpayer money does the government pay per unit of energy? Every p…

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RT @RealSpikeCohen:
Never forget that the political class flew around the planet in private jets, at your expense, while they told you to d…

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I suspect that, once the enlightenment extends to children, people will realize the irony of the tweet below: that, while forcing anyone to wear a mask is wrong, forcing them to attend reeducation camps for years on end is an immeasurably worse crime. twitter.com/cwt_news/statu…

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@JesseNichols @TimSweeneyEpic @sama

Sam should read Atlas Shrugged. Or maybe he has and identifies with the villains. Sad.

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@splitkostanjeu1

There’s new related material I find promising such as blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/what-mak…

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LLMs are just not a step on the way to AGI. Something else is needed. Popper is needed. twitter.com/sashayanshin/s…

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@michaelmalice

She has “esq” in her name so you can trust her

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RT @michaelmalice:
Literal vampire preying on the poor in service to the state

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RT @YasMohammedxx:
PS: The young woman who was viciously abused, isolated from family and friends, forced to wear hijab then niqab, beaten…

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RT @YasMohammedxx:
A friend in my hometown was speaking to an officer about a domestic violence case and this is what he had to say. She th…

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So When Can a Woman ‘Date Up’? blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/so-when-…

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RT @NickTaber:
Alot of the “bad behavior” you see in kids/teens, I would characterize as reactive abuse. The kid might be experiencing emo…

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Olaf Klonus ist ein schlechter Versicherungsmakler: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/olaf-klo…

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RT @LPMisesCaucus:
You should be allowed to do heroin, but no one else should be forced to bear the consequences of that decision on your b…

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RT @PessimistsArc:
Such an interesting 1954 article on ‘computer hype’ comparing it to ‘electricity hype’ of 1890s.

Notes that every age o…

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An update on @Square’s shady business practices: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/don-t-us…

TL;DR: I give up, no accountability from Square.

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RT @townhallcom:
KENNEDY: “If electric cars are so swell, how come government has to pay people to drive ‘em?” pic.twitter.com/UICqGszRm9

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RT @LPMisesCaucus:
The Federal Reserve has printed over $30 trillion at the behest of the US government and the elites that control it. The…

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RT @SHomburg:
Möchten Sie lieber lachen oder weinen? Lauterbachs Ministerium weiß nicht, ob Masken wirksam waren!

Sie eigneten sich als In…

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RT @Hassnudla:
@m3m3z1ll4

Also du darfst als Mann dein Geschlecht ändern, außer natürlich du hast dadurch einen der Vorteile, den der Staat…

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RT @billybinion:
Thread: The Supreme Court is hearing a big case tomorrow. It should unite everyone: left, right & center. And the national…

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RT @a_nnaschneider:
Dahmen fürchtet sich vor Schuldzuweisungen und was soll ich sagen, das würde ich an seiner Stelle wohl auch tun.

http…

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Good rules of thumb for cybersecurity:

  1. Don’t store things in ‘the cloud’. If you’re going to sync data across devices, use cables.
  2. Don’t use google. Configure your firewall to block requests to domains containing the word ‘google’ and to Google’s IPs. twitter.com/newsycombinato…
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RT @realjohngatto:
School is the first impression children get of organized society.

Like most first impressions it is the lasting one.…

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RT @jbrowder1:
DoNotPay is bringing AutoGPT to iMessage for all of our customers. User interfaces are outdated in the A.I/GPT-4 era.

Getti…

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@bryn_z @PBDsPodcast

Are local governments and departments like the police department suppose to operate with the goal to make a profit?

Yes. Because if they don’t, that means there’s an error somewhere that needs to be corrected. Currently, that means of error correction is stifled.

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RT @latestinspace:
Surface of Mars on April 20 from NASA’s Perseverance rover

Taken the same day as the Starship launch https://t.co/MwDW…

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RT @JimEatock:
@icorrecty00 @wytchheart @bradybuzz @POTUS

The Illinois legislature banned (by name and model number in the law) the Barrett…

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@alpenbii @narimoldi

Sowas darf man in einer Demokratie.

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RT @AlexEpstein:
“The ravenous American appetite for minerals will lead to severe shortages in the next few decades unless the nation stops…

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@OERRBlog @AlexE1789

Würde nicht der Verweis auf Artikel 1 bereits reichen? Auch um zu zeigen, dass jegliche Form von Zwangsabgabe (inkl. Steuern) verfassungswidrig ist.

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RT @LinkedinFlex:
If you see this the day after submitting your taxes, you’re getting anally probed by one of Biden’s new 87,000 IRS agents…

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@tomyhub

Dieses Video bspw. von 1979 (!) ist so aktuell wie eh und je: youtu.be/-3SA6G5rZrg

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RT @tomyhub:
Wir sollen der Wissenschaft folgen - #FollowTheScience - heisst es.

Doch was bedeutet das? Ist “die Wissenschaft” ein Chor,…

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@tomyhub

Schöner Thread. Popper lesen lohnt sich übrigens. Hat einiges zum Thema Autorität vs Wissenschaft geschrieben. Bei dem ganzen Coronaschlamassel hat er sich bestimmt im Grab umgedreht.

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RT @NikoJilch:
Die deutsche Sehnsucht nach Verboten ist erschreckend, sagt Anna Schneider. @a_nnaschneider pic.twitter.com/Mri7Wvo7po

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@_Islamicat

Clearly brother Jabril got mad game

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7m 13s. I beat the narrator :)

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These Two Mistakes Led to a Grueling Divorce: youtu.be/8C9BKEH_N4I

In this video, I explain two key mistakes that led to a divorce and how to avoid them. pic.twitter.com/tLo57i0upi

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RT @realjohngatto:
Over-teaching interferes with learning,

although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of t…

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RT @bobscartoons:
I see @Telegraph are trying to highlight the harms of lockdowns on children with additional needs.

Here’s part of the st…

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Embarrassing that government approval is needed for this. Just think how much faster all this could go. twitter.com/sawyermerritt/…

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Hundreds, maybe thousands of new @Apple machines haven’t had reliable wifi for months. I haven’t seen any acknowledgment from @Apple @tim_cook, let alone an ETA for a fix. Ridiculous.

discussions.apple.com/thread/2545871…

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10m 6s

SO close to beating narration :)

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That’s the next goal

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10m 51s

I came fairly close to outrunning the narration.

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RT @MrsMThatcher:
The Government treats industry like a beast of burden. They put more and more weight on the animal, starve it of nutritio…

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New highscore in Getting Over It: 12m 17s

I plan to get even better

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Examples of tautologies, from the game Getting Over It:

  • “forward progress”
  • “uphill ascent”

Instead, say ‘progress’ and ‘ascent’.

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RT @Tommy_USA:
Nothing says “I ❤️ public schools” like:

“We need to force kids to go to public schools or else they won’t go to public s…

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@AlexEpstein

Typo. Should be either ‘such crises’ or ‘such a crisis’.

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RT @LPMisesCaucus:
The corruption of the family court system on full display as these children are forcibly removed from their father and t…

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RT @VoCommunism:
Remember the victims. pic.twitter.com/Mg1eLwHlew

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Turn off Siri. It sucks anyway. twitter.com/wholemarsblog/…

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@amaldorai

I’m sure he understands machine learning/neural networks/whatever. What I mean is that people like him (I was thinking of Bostrom, Musk, etc) don’t understand Popperian epistemology well enough to gauge the risks properly. Nor do they understand AGI.

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They don’t understand it well. twitter.com/paulg/status/1…

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RT @chillywillers:
Mining restrictions hurt capitalism’s image because it is then done in places with few labor protections https://t.co/9V…

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@_Islamicat

Is epic battle

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RT @AuronMacintyre:
Imagine how crazy you would need to be to believe that people inside the federal government work to exercise power over…

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Yes, getting out of the way really is a key part. twitter.com/danmartell/sta…

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What’s Wrong with This War Poster? youtu.be/ZlxRHLwBaRQ

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@elRyanMacDonald

The abuse was a given.

Consider that you’re making these arguments because you are (presumably) a fan of DD. I’ve run into similar situations where ppl immediately threw their arguments overboard when it was about someone they disliked.

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@elRyanMacDonald

Memes that solve a problem don’t necessarily spread better either.

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@elRyanMacDonald

Say a judge abuses his power and sends innocent people to prison.

Surely you’d agree that he should be held accountable.

If not, then good ideas—ie those saying not to abuse power—are at a serious disadvantage.

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@elRyanMacDonald

Memes that fill a niche better than the alternatives are selected for.

Those aren’t necessarily better ideas, just better replicators.

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@elRyanMacDonald

Better ideas don’t always replace worse ones, that’s not how meme evolution works.

A good way to prevent bad ideas from spreading in the first place is the expectation of accountability.

I don’t know why you’re so opposed to accountability.

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@elRyanMacDonald

Why the switch to original sources?

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@elRyanMacDonald

That is, conducive to error correction.

Are others obligated to respect someone’s preference of not being held accountable just in case it might interfere with learning?

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@elRyanMacDonald

I don’t think he is a fallibilist.

People who are happy to be held accountable won’t be hesitant to make mistakes. They’ll find accountability conducive to that end.

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@elRyanMacDonald

It’s true that one can judge ideas independently of their source, but you can still judge the source too, no?

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@elRyanMacDonald

As he mentions, even if someone “evil” told you a good idea, it would still be a good idea.

Just by ascribing that do DD instead of the fictional version of Hermes you’re holding DD accountable. You’re doing the thing you’re criticizing.

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@elRyanMacDonald

As I explain in the post, when people avoid accountability, that leads to lies, hypocrisy, and indefinite delays. That seems relevant, and I provided evidence for all three. Do you have a refutation?

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Still my favorite quote about coding. twitter.com/codinglanguage…

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