understanding the left

I don’t know how you can use LLMs without concluding that they’re already a very powerful technology — far more powerful than most experts would have predicted 10 years ago — with the potential to become more powerful in short order. The left may get dealt out of the hand if it doesn’t get better AI critics.

Hipster skepticism won’t help us understand AI’s potential or its risk

Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more

If you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.

my grand theory of politics is that leftists are those who care about justice, and rightists are those who care about order. If you care equally about both, you're a moderate. If you care about one to the exclusion of the other, then you're likely a radical.

While Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.