adding ”uplift” to the list of EA shibboleths
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LWer: politics is really hard to be Rational about, so how about we just forget all about it?
Bad: arguing about prison abolition
Good: arguing about how to fastest get to the closest Muni station
being "banned by Amazon" is probably good for PR
Consider me well and truly milkshake-ducked now
phew, the comments on the slobstack...
https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-epstein-hysteria/comment/219672502
edit I guess this is also an example of "Rationalist Brain" - reflexively contrarian, overly literal interpretations of wordings, the defense of one venerable old white man over multiple anonymous female victims, etc. You can have principled views on how Epstein was treated when he was alive and how his case has been handled after he died, but you can also choose the keep those views to yourself, or publish them on your substack for all to point and mock.
Slave revolts were basically constant, and I think it would have been easy for contemporary British to blame the success of the Haitian revolt on the uselessness of the French, not that slavery was doomed because the slaves now had a "win".
Brazil had horrific slave revolts and didn't abolish slavery until the late 1880s.
Amodei is the definition of "book smart" vs "street smart".
I dunno who "Bentham's Bulldog" is, but they live up to their nick and I like the cut of their jib:
The community is reduced to downvoting, sputtering, and "the real influential philosophers ~~live in Canada~~ are working in industry, not academia":
Thanks! Does every LLM vendor publish them, or is it an Anthropic thing only?
And of course it's self-published by the vendor, so basically just PR.
officially out of the loop here:
What is an LLM "system card", does it have any sort of scientific/technical validity, or is it just performance theater by the LLM vendor?
LWer: slavery was bad and abolishing the slave trade was a net good
LW commenters: really?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDZcsojmRXo5qKNBm/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade
(I can kind of understand that intellectual honesty can prompt people to question a narrative, and in some ways I respect it, but there comes a time when you need to ask yourself "am I being the best person I can be by defending slavery" and back away from the keyboard)
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If you want to re-litigate the New Deal, rehabilitating Hoover is a good first step.
The American far-right has the New Deal as its foundational Dolchstosslegende.