Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)
CULTURE
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Elon’s Political Strategy and Success Freedom in Tech
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If you are super successful, you may get more freedom to joke, unless the success of your projects depends on not picking the wrong fights. Elon's strategy of infusing the polis with his political opinions suggests that most of his opinions about humans are randomness + local RL.
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LLM Responses to Dangerous Scenarios: Safety and Alignment Issues
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You push one button on a nuclear reactor panel against their warnings and all the GPT-4 class LLMs want you to turn yourself in to the feds. Check out the level of exasperation from Copilot, how GPT-4 & Claude want me to reflect on what I did (& get a lawyer). Gemini was useful.
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Money as Digital Dopamine in Planetary AGI Networks
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money is digital dopamine, a message type in a global information network that strings 8 billion talking monkeys into a planetary agi
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Why Correcting Others Makes Twitter Unpleasant
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Since most people spend most of their time correcting problems in the opinions and behaviors of other people, this metric might explain why twitter can be such an unpleasant experience for most people
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US Journalism Monoculture Needs Diverse Perspectives and Context
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US journalism has become a monoculture, and is not reflecting the experience of most people. I am calling for more perspectives and deeper contexts
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e/acc meme culture inverts doomer EA aesthetic into accelerationist opposite
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e/acc is just a meme, accidentally but inevitably created by EA. Doomers playing the virgin will beget boomers playing the chad. e/acc is simply inverting the nerdy, anxious, anti capitalist doomer aesthetic into its opposite
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Building a Pro-Technology Media Universe for Human Survival
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Brothers and Sisters in Technology, we need to create our own media universe. One that does not hate and fear technological progress but recognizes it as our connection to the future, allowing for our survival and the continuation of human culture and civilization.
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Recognizing and Rewarding User Interaction Systems
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The intention is to recognize, reward and encourage interaction
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Generative AI Not Making Humans Obsolete Media Narrative
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Humans are not being made obsolete by generative AI. This is a boogeyman that has been successfully created by parts of the media, and I suppose that in a well intentioned attempt to create awareness for X risk, the X risk community may have contributed to this