BREAKING UPDATE: The government pressured ABC — and ABC caved. The timing of ABC's decision, on the heels of the FCC chairman’s pledge to the network to “do this the easy way or the hard way,” tells the whole story. Another media outlet withered under government pressure,

The problem that this book faces is that there isn’t one argument for AI risk. There are two. First, “Ai risks are plausible”, which many people (incl labs) agree on Second, “AI risks are inevitable, which only ~Miri believes

Once again I am begging people to understand that not everything in life is zero sum

Just from 2000 to 2008, health insurance premiums rose by 97%. So the fact that premiums have risen by 60% in the 15 years since Obamacare was enacted shows that the cost of healthcare has risen much more slowly since it became law.

Happy to note I am decently familiar with the entire list and hence am officially ready to try to understand AGI :)

Nature continuing to live up to their traditional high standards I see…

Plot armor is usually totally fine imo Like duh if someone got shot 5 minutes in they wouldnt have made a movie about it It’s like watching a documentary about a lottery winner and going “smh what are the odds they would have won”

Exhuming Paul Dirac just to summarily fire him

Relational observables are still gauge invariant

I’m always confused about how people think there is infinite demand to pay $6k rent to live in NYC, but somehow we will be able to build enough non market housing to satisfy demand at <<$6k rent. Where did those infinity people willing to pay anything for housing go?

I’m pretty sure Johnson and Lindenstrauss would have expected this…

Looks like we converged quickly

There is no evidence that could ever possibly convince me that God favours the French

Nobody should ever complain about maths Wikipedia when physics Wikipedia exists. I’ve learned a lot of maths from Wikipedia. I’ve never successfully learned any physics whatsoever from it