My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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The Pizza Belt: Navigating AI Singularity Risks
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The pizza belt is the slim habitable sphere during a tech singularity. It's the event horizon where we live while the doomers get eaten by nano machines below and the e/accs suffocate in the bursting transformer bubble above.
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Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns
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I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.
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AI transforms public spaces transit retail education employment
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Most people spend lots of time in public transit, on city sidewalks, in retail stores, places of education, employment and administration
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Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly
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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)
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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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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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Human Expertise Remains Valuable Under AGI Compute Constraints
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Worthwhile economic argument about why human intellectual labor will be valuable even if we achieve AGI: As long as AGI compute is limited (& it will be under any reasonable scenario), it may be cheaper to use human experts in their area of expertise, saving AGI for other work.
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Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Work Week Amid AI Automation
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Bernie Sanders proposed a bill establishing a four-day work week in the U.S. with no loss of pay, citing productivity gains from AI and automation.
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Financial Incentives and Safety: Boeing’s Recklessness Problem
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This is…not central planning. This is wanting not to die in a plane crash and thinking that if those benefitting financially from undercutting plane safety were also endangered by Boeing’s recklessness perhaps they would not find making planes safer to be a hard decision.