Taylor Swift as Edicaran fauna: a thread 🧵

Bryan Caplan

River_Tam accelerationism never works, making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better.

yes google i was looking for the former prime minister’s height in picometers

Sunny side yud

Well this is going to be an exciting new frontier of AI politics.

The 'ai-generated ghibli' trend seems designed to be a big fuck you to master Miyazaki at the end of his life but go on i guess. Good that some are using it to emphasize the enormous devotion and passion behind every frame of the real thing.

Gaza is the second intellectual shock I've had in my life: it shows the prevalence of psychopaths among otherwise well-functioning, seemingly civilized people. Few people are genuinely virtuous; they just act that way under the minority rule of the truly virtuous.

The next question is why you should preorder this book right away, rather than taking another two months to think about it, or waiting to hear what other people say after they read it. In terms of strictly selfish benefit: because we are planning some goodies for preorderers,

This interview with David Marchese and Rutger Bregman is the most intellectually compelling content I’ve consumed all year. Bregman, who I had dimly (on my part) never come across before,, makes an incredibly strong case for moral ambition. Literally last night before bed,

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

I told you we’d be back

Christopher Walken says Bugs Bunny is one of his favorite actors. He told Ben Stiller that "A lot of times I’ve played roles as if I was Bugs Bunny... but nobody knew"

SO good James Gunn Lex knows Superman is emotional but has a code The emotions allow Lex to goad Supes - & the code allows Lex to risk his life! So only because Lex KNOWS Supes is NOT truly a danger, Lex can make him LOOK like one. Arrogant yet smart move, brilliant

Superhuman persuasion doesn't look like the AI Jedi mind-tricking you into totally changing your beliefs through some magic sequence of words, more like: 1. They will have an amazing track record of being trustworthy/helpful 2. They will be good at calibrating exactly how

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Wait a minute… The guy trying desperately to usher in superintelligence at Meta is named Roko’s Basilisk-o????

I got interviewed by Øystein Runde for The Empirix podcast :D Link below

We overestimate how much we can change other people. We underestimate how much we can change ourselves.

Steve Bannon: “Well he’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ‘28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that. At the appropriate time we’ll lay out what the plan is, but there’s a plan and President Trump will be the president in ‘28.”