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If Books Could Kill - Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E2onI8R3wdnxAS0p1O9j8?si=sgR1E44lRTGOY17mUikUFQ

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897

https://pca.st/episode/0e155eb9-93e0-4fe8-bde3-5f115f9b374a

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Off-Topic: Music Recommendation Thread
  • Most of the time, if I'm listening to anything, it's a playlist of Boards of Canada on shuffle - usually while I work.

    Otherwise, my music taste is pretty stalled these days wrt new music. Unwound got back together and I saw a couple of their shows, one in LA and another in Austin. The Blood Brothers also reunited and I have a ticket to see them in Dec. Melt-Banana just released a new album I haven't listened to yet.

    My friend's band, Yuppie Killer, released their discography on streaming sites. They're a hardcore punk band of expats in South Korea from 2012-2017.

    I play in a band, Constellation, and we're sending our first album to be mastered this week. Kind of throwback to 90's post-hardcore like Fugazi (yeah, we got cowbell) and Drive Like Jehu. Really excited about it.

  • For better or worse, /r/badphilosophy has re-opened

    Really, it was the headlines of Google's AI Overview pulling Reddit shitposts that inspired the return. If Reddit is going to sell its data to Google, then, you know, maybe flood the zone with sludge?

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    EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault
  • There’s currently a loud minority of EAs saying that EA should ostracize people if they associate with people who disagree with them.

    people who disagree with them.

    Oh, it's racists. The vague description is because it's racists. It's a woke cult now because some people don't want to associate with racists.

  • Yud lettuce know that we just don't get it :(
  • Before we accidentally make an AI capable of posing existential risk to human being safety

    It's cool to know that this isn't a real concern and therefore in a clear vantage of how all the downstream anxiety is really a piranha pool of grifts for venture bucks and ad clicks.

  • Yud lettuce know that we just don't get it :(
  • A year and two and a half months since his Time magazine doomer article.

    No shut downs of large AI training - in fact only expanded. No ceiling on compute power. No multinational agreements to regulate GPU clusters or first strike rogue datacenters.

    Just another note in a panic that accomplished nothing.

  • lmao it finally happened
  • I mean, I agree with the sentiment behind the sarcasm, but also feel the same way about the internet in general. Sometimes it's learning the same lesson in a new context. But Roko's basilisk though? Quite a cliff.

  • lmao it finally happened

    Someone I was following on TikTok, whose takes on tech industry bullshit and specifically AI hype I respected, made a video that Roko's basilisk is a serious concern. My apologies to those who have been in this same situation when I was less sympathetic.

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    The Future of Humanity versus Company Bottom Line

    www.businessinsider.com OpenAI just dissolved its team dedicated to managing AI risks, like the possibility of it 'going rogue'

    OpenAI reportedly disbanded its Superalignment team days after its co-leaders left.

    OpenAI just dissolved its team dedicated to managing AI risks, like the possibility of it 'going rogue'
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    When someone drops "immersion" when talking about VR

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    Scarier than the utter extinction of humanity

    Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky If you're not worried about the utter extinction of humanity, consider this scarier prospect: An AI reads the entire legal code -- which no human can know or obey -- and threatens to enforce it, via police reports and lawsuits, against anyone who doesn't comply with its orders. Jan 3, 2024 · 7:29 PM UTC

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