The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
The EAs were too “woke” and too concerned with appearances.
seeming has become more important than doing.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Algorithm-driven echo chambers ensure that we only ever hear from people we already agree with. It’s not that people don’t argue anymore—we argue constantly —but the nature of the debate has changed. The goal is no longer to explore or challenge ideas, but to perform intelligence and “win” whatever discourse is currently relevant. The effect is an... See more
The death of the public intellectual
We see curiosity theater all around.
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Audience members asking questions at panels that are actually mini-speeches. People at dinner name-dropping obscure books in conversation but never engaging with their core arguments. Folks on social media starting ‘learning projects’ and abandoning them after a week.
Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
I’m struck by how profoundly non-humanistic many AI leaders sound.
- Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts
- x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain
- e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation
- Alex Wang calls... See more
Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖x.comGuyInPlace
19h
I don't have issues with elected officials saying performative stuff to connect with their constituents. But the discourse on "elites" really has become it's own weird entity disconnected from reality. We're at the point that the characters on The Office would be considered elites because they work in an office, some have college... See more
19h
I don't have issues with elected officials saying performative stuff to connect with their constituents. But the discourse on "elites" really has become it's own weird entity disconnected from reality. We're at the point that the characters on The Office would be considered elites because they work in an office, some have college... See more