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Fukuyama: "Trumpism is basically a mentality drenched in what Nietzsche labeled ressentiment, that is, acute resentment of others based on wounded pride, perceived disregard, fears of inadequacy, and a desire to exact revenge on those who had earlier failed to pay adequate respect."
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People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Tweets From the Wolf of Bay St. · @TheBayStWolf • Tweet
@rez0__ You've probably seen Anthropic's paper on sycophancy in LLMs.
There's a sycophancy dataset to experiment on, too. https://t.co/f59CODwm64
why the most rational course of action isn’t always trying to choose the best. And it turns out to be at the heart of, among other things, web design and clinical trials—two topics that normally aren’t mentioned in the same sentence.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Who is the most interesting person alive?
My opinion: Josh Waitzkin
Here's why: https://t.co/YvJUFwjriD
‘AI alignment’ - how the model should behave
Amanda Askell - Anthropic
“How a morally motivated kind human would act”
Ethics is a lot more like physics than we think - uncertainty, hypotheses
Models should be uncertain about moral systems
Scott Rogers
@scottrogers
