Optimus Prime
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@RokoMijic Since your thesis is so well-formulated and well-argued-out, I expect the countries where women are banned from work to outcompete the countries with equal rights soon. Could happen any decade now.
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@nikicaga His profile says he is a Richard Wagner fan. This must mean he is into classical opera, right?.
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@RokoMijic On a serious note: feel free to make whatever exotic theory about the world, but when that theory fails to predict reality, and in fact runs in the exact opposite direction of it, I will choose to be skeptical.
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@DrewPavlou Don't worry guys. He will interview Putin next and ask him to say kind words about Zelenskyy. When that fails, he will say "I'm very disappointed that Putin wouldn't compliment Zelenskyy.". Whereupon he will finally realize that not everyone is 5 years old.
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@ConceptualJames @mcuban @carney Can we not engage in this cheap strawmanning? Cuban isn't pushing for communism, he is arguing a specific point about how implementation of DEI in industry differs from the activist rhetoric.
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@wanyeburkett This is extremely perceptive. I was once reading a debate on Quora about whether "short skirts lead to higher chance of rape", and one of the female participants argued: "If this were true, what are you saying, that men are just animals who cannot control themselves?".
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@wanyeburkett I thought about this quite a bit - I've certainly heard of rapists being described as much worse than animals. Her logic essentially was "If you use this argument it's going to make you (men) look really bad, are you sure you want to go ahead?". I call it reductio ad offensum.
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@weirddalle Why do people make horribly disfigured paintings and act like it contains some great moral or philosophical truth? No, it's just ugly. You could have just as well made a regular human being to represent consciousness. Or the most beautiful human to ever walk the earth.
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@micah_erfan No worries, I'm sure when he sits down with Putin, he'll ask that the interview be done in Ukrainian. /s.
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@fofrAI "Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.".
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@adonis_singh Actually Sama has already said that o3-mini is weaker than o1. It's not going to cause so much as a whimper, let alone riots.
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@splitbycomma This is the one time it's justified to have different reactions. DeepSeek is 30x cheaper, open-source, and transparent with its chains of thought in the API. It's everything OpenAI is not.
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@Noahpinion I think the Groypers are already pretty demoralized from their anti-Israel campaign. This war will be a quick one.
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@RichardHanania While Sam has his strengths, the words "moral clarity" and "Sam Harris" haven't belonged in the same sentence for close to a decade now.
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@RichardHanania Are you sure this is unique? I feel this is one of those "western softness" moments you are usually going off about. I'm 90% sure you could find a dozen+ instances of american soldiers in the iraq war not caring about dying iraqis. And a lot more for non-american armies.
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@robbowlin86 @Jeremy70843822 @Timcast She said: “Puberty blockers are fucked, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.” I won't give you her retraction since I don't want you to lose all respect for her just yet.
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@StefanFSchubert Wow, if these two graphs are accurate, then this is the strongest case for immigration I've heard. Open and shut.
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@rmcentush This is the most retarded immigration take of all time, but it keeps getting traction in right-wing circles because they are full of horny men who can't stop jerking off to the fantasy of hot exotic women pouring over the border, waiting to serve them.
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@tracewoodgrains This might be a controversial take but I think some of these guys might be a little pampered.
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@BannedKirby @esjesjesj That left-wing men are really playing 4D chess, they support left-wing causes to destroy society so that women will want them. In reality, "dweebs" are right-wing traditionalists like the stonetoss author himself.
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@DecorumEnforcer @yuhline I have to ask, is this take based on real interactions or is this simply online culture-war rhetoric?. Whenever I've met Mexican workers in the US (not sure if they were legal), they've unfailingly been the nicest people I've ever known. Have you had a different experience?.
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@StefanFSchubert Let me clarify this a bit. I am operating under the assumption: .1) "GDP growth per-capita" reflects some actual quantity which has been the same for the US and Europe in terms of fundamentals. 2) The population increase is what explains the US advantage in total GDP. Basically,.
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@LasagneWest @esjesjesj On the contrary, I think evan is doing a great job by giving a specific criteria; because the original post is so vague as to be utterly meaningless.
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@abacaj Not really? I don't think o3 is particularly suitable for the average layperson. Even less than o1 was. Meanwhile Gemini is releasing a bunch of *products* -- not just models -- like NotebookLM, Flash 2.0 assistant, etc. o3 also has to deal with price points and safety.
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@DrewPavlou Joe Rogan's podcast reminds me of those capture-the-flag games where the first team to reach the flag gets to build a bunker and fortify their position. Basically whoever goes on JRE first can poison the well against their enemies and capture a huge part of the cultural.
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@SwannMarcus89 I was searching for the underlying cause of all the agony, and around 20 comments down I ran into a bunch of extremely sane opinions:
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@SwannMarcus89 I like how right-wing twitter lashes out at Walz by pointing out things he is good at.
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@jdcmedlock I'm always confused when conservatives post this type of message. What do they think should happen? People should be forced to vote a particular way? We should have socialism with the company given to republicans?.
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@RichardHanania European far-leftists coming to the same ideology as American trads is the Mobius strip of political horseshoe theory I didn't know I needed.
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@ryandavogel I wonder if we will see a "cliff" shape here; where the salaries keep going higher and higher due to increased value from quasi-AGIs until they suddenly drop to $0.
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@CaneRidgeSSR What would make a facial recognition software illegal? Just because it's too good at its job?.
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@whstancil Unfortunately this is not even an exaggeration. In the recent Ben Shapiro vs. Destiny debate, this was exactly the argument Ben made.
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@vanguardjames95 @RichardHanania She is a DEI hire, why? Just cos she's attractive-looking? Careful, you are going against the physiognomy principles of your own side. They will not be pleased with you.
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@abacaj The fact that OAI has no moat has been obvious for a long time. What is shocking, is that none of its multi-trillionaire competitors -- Meta, Gemini, Anthropic (backed by Amazon) managed to release anything close to o1, before a Chinese hedge fund-backed lab did. The other.
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@fchollet First off, I'd like to say that you've contributed immensely to the AI discourse, that I think you've often been criticized unfairly, and I've defended your viewpoints against said criticism plenty of times. But this one seems extremely weak. The whole argument against your.
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@InternetHippo @allahliker The greatest irony is that for decades, Alex Jones used to warn about powerful globalists who want to remake humanity in their image. Right now, Elon and Peter Thiel are the two people closest to his description, who explicitly say they want to chart humanity's future course.
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@underthenettle I assume he's talking about brown table / brown chair / brown shirt etc. something along those lines. My tweet is just a joke.
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@eigenrobot Really? I have the exact opposite view. I think Eliezer mostly spews platitudes but is on point here. Like the reason you valued humans economically is because you could get more out of them than you put in, and that's saying something true and important even if people engaged.
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@wanyeburkett I would say there were 2 evil acts committed here. One, by the cheating wife, through her deception. But a second, equally important one was committed by the husband. Deciding that someone you've loved and cared about for 14 years no longer matters because of genetics is evil.
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@RokoMijic What, are you saying people who agree with your policy have lower IQ? What an interesting fact. Totally coincidental, obviously.
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@RichardHanania I think this diagnosis is accurate. The Trump-era right is driven by hatred above all else, which it often projects on the US for being "woke". I first noticed this when our side started wishing for destruction of California. Liberals were not doing the same thing for RW states.
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@AISafetyMemes @repligate This actually doesn't surprise me. (Except for the fact that we can observe machines talking to each other at all, which is crazy). You find similar patterns in humans. People who are the most "pushy" or ill-behaved can dominate a conversation. Over time, human societies develop.
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@tracewoodgrains Is this talking about the manifesto or other writings unrelated to the shooting? If it's a manifesto, it would seem to be in the public interest to have it accessible. (At least journalists should be able to report on it, even if they don't put it out in full).
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@wesyang So she was able to have children, looks feminine, seems to have a normal life and found her happiness. Just has to use a bottle instead of breastfeeding. She seems to have gotten away pretty easy all things considered.
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@RichardMCNgo "Experience shows Trump’s claims should be taken seriously but not literally.". Somehow whenever anyone says this, it's always a stand-in for "Anything good Trump says, he will do; anything bad he says you can ignore.".
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@mattgcle @clairlemon @elonmusk @lindayaX @DrewPavlou @jacksonhinklle I think the use of "but" is perfectly appropriate in this instance.
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@samswoora Incredibly, the formula for Schwarzschild radius Rs = 2 GM / c^2 (i.e. event horizon of an ideal non-rotating blackhole) is exactly the same as what you get from simple Newtonian mechanics! Sometimes dumb luck can get you the right answer😉.
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I knew Usha was the better-looking Vance, but I didn't realize by just how much she mogged JD.
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@steady_drumbeat @woke8yearold Actually C completely contradicts the hypothesis. It suggests both types of salmon spend time in both shallow and deep water, making their environments identical, ruling out adaptation as an explanative factor.
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@growing_daniel Saying this publicly is an information hazard. If the remaining lewds dry up, this site won't be worth using.
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@peterrhague Exactly! I thought SpaceX was launching satellites, setting up Starlink, aiming for Mars, etc. But I had no idea they had designed 5 freaking engines, built multiple rockets, and were beating Boeing's ass when it came to securing NASA contracts.
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@RichardHanania I think this frame of reference is pretty bad. Because saying "you don't exist" only sounds bad to a person who already exists. If the population of earth was 7 billion instead of 8 billion, the extra 1 billion people wouldn't be around complaining about their non-existence.
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@PaulSkallas Actually, trying to use orthogonal metrics to heuristically determine truth because you are too lazy to simply judge the ideas is what causes most human error.
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@BigSwissMo @Societyorigina1 @Morbidful There are only 2 designations for a man on trial, innocent or guilty. There is no such thing as "guilty but not confirmed". If you propose any punishment it will be applied to falsely convicted. Keep that in mind.
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@PfizerLabRat Reminds me of how Vivek Ramaswamy was stanning for the Great Replacement Theory on CNN. And this week Ann Coulter informed him he was one of the "replacers".
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@RuggedLiberty19 @JoshEakle Exact opposite is definitely a stretch. But lately Trump has been moving more in that direction, especially on the economic front, with increased praise toward Tariffs and coming out against automation. Even on free speech I'm not sure how good Trump is. He is talking about.
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@RichardHanania This is straight up evil. Do these people get their fix from torturing parents?.
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@paulg @EconAndrew What would the topic of an "earnest" PhD in English literature look like?.
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@SwannMarcus89 I initially thought you were referring to Stancil as the "leftist" and was very confused. 😂.
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@AISafetyMemes This is a feature I definitely want, so it will be a blessing in that way. On the other hand, need to be more careful in how I talk, use temporary chat for limit testing. Most of all, the superintelligent nature of chatgpt will be much more apparent. We will all feel the AGI.
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@AnnCoulter Why is it incomprehensible? He is honoring a late friend, and one of the most beloved sportsmen in the country he won the tournament in. I don't think this incident is anything like the others, all of which occur in Hollywood and reflect an elite Hollywood-exclusive culture.
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@eigenrobot @robinhanson Is "society's capacity for nonmarket coordination" another word for culture?.
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@tracewoodgrains Why does SF have a budget shortfall in the first place? Where does all its tax money go?.
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@AISafetyMemes Out of AI memes, I love this meme the most, because (in its original form) it single-handedly destroys the largest number of dumb AI-denialist arguments on social media. "AI isn't really intelligent because it hasn't won a Nobel Prize". "How many nobel prizes have you won?"
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@BlkCrownAuthor @TheBrometheus No, I believe this comic is post-ironic, to illustrate the point that men and women really do take compliments differently. The idea that this comic's artist is some feminist with a blindspot engaging in a self-own is incorrect.
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@Ancient_Masc @PicturesFoIder I can see that Christianity has done a fantastic job of civilizing you. Not.
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@tracewoodgrains I wonder how the world appears from their perspective? They must think conservatives are an indelibly flawed people, an untermensch, that either need to be destroyed or at least fought and contained for the good of the world. Their ideology preaches inclusion but their actions.
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Haven't found much excitement on twitter lately, but I came across this great article by Noah Smith (written on May 3rd): .
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@cremieuxrecueil No fan of Mark, but isn't he covering his tracks here by saying "diversity is a competitive advantage"?.
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@LasagneWest @esjesjesj Do you want to contribute meaningfully to this discussion? Then can you: .1) Give a definition of a movie "being made to please transpeople". 2) Give a rigorous, falsifiable test that allows us to check whether a movie fits the above description. (if so and so, YES, else NO).
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@eyeslasho I'm constantly surprised by how few people understand per capita. The other day Gad Saad -- an evolutionary psychology professor -- posted the following:. Since Black on White criminal incidents are 5x of W-on-B incidents, and black population is 5x smaller, this means per-capita.
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@MHastingz @paulg This is a great example of stupidity encountering intelligence and lowering its eyes in condescension.
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@yhdistyminen Impressed how many pitfalls of wokeness France avoided. Willingness to adopt nuclear power, no stifling of free speech like the UK and Germany, high TFR.
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@MilanBrahmbha11 @martyrmade India since the Cold-war era has been a master of playing all sides. India hates China which the US loves, but also loves Russia which the US dislikes. It courts both Iran and Israel. Despite this, it has maintained strong relations with US due to its status as a growing market.
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@ericwhatchaneed @Noahpinion Fully agree. Random, unprovoked attacks make a high-trust society into a low-trust society very quickly. This is much worse than crimes committed with a well-established motive. People will be afraid to walk outside if this goes unpunished.
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@aidan_mclau That's because the Valar, Ilya, is no longer with them. Without Ilya's light, they are going to wither away soon as their ideas descend into entropic ruin.
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@NicoGrunenberg @GarrettPetersen @RichardHanania I think you missed his point. He is talking about the design being unchanged because it was already close to optimal; not actually using a helicopter built in 1962.
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@griggori @tracewoodgrains It's astonishing how ignorant both sides are of their tribe's actual beliefs. The trans issue is a classic motte-and-bailey for the right: say "we only care about kids transitioning" but then almost every mainstream commentator is opposed to it in adults as well.
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@OwenGregorian @eyeslasho I'm not sure you understand what the word "socialist" means. Can you point to specific Biden policies that you think a white nationalist would support? Do you know anyone who supports Biden and loves Hitler?. Let's talk in facts rather than labels.
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Very important to remember this.
Liberalism hasn't failed. Liberalism has created more freedom, health, and prosperity than any other political philosophy ever theorized by humanity. Tear it down at your own peril.
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@KetterStone @RichardHanania The Haitian migrants aren't illegal though -- they are in the US on Temporary Protected Status which is legal. And they aren't criminals -- they have a lower crime rate than other legal immigrants (way lower than natives). So what's the issue with the Haitians, specifically?
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@AISafetyMemes @ASM65617010 Holy shit, did Deepseek jailbreak OpenAI models to train on their chain of thought? Or what is going on here?.
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@Empty_America It's legitimately criminal how many positive developments occur in the world that we barely hear about. And the environmental movement could rightly collect a victory lap here, instead of being all doom and gloom.
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@KevinAFischer @Andercot Incredible. And thank you for the response. So with reference to the Levels of AGI paper, it is fair to say that Claude is now at the "Virtuoso" level in (quantum) physics.
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@CathyYoung63 @C_Kavanagh I'm surprised you don't know Destiny given all the drama he has been involved in recently. Perhaps you know him by one of his other names - Mr. Bonnell, Mr. Morelli, Mr. Bonucci, Mr. Vermicelli. .
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