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
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
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