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Examining is fine in my book. But examining the ability to think of recognizably distinct demographics should be done with great care and sensitivity.

And that was not an examination, just some low effort attacks on the out group.

> inability to process information clearly and think in reality in lieu of ideology is the cornerstone of conservative thinking.

Can we not do this kind of thing please?

> This is the party of so-called "rationalists".

Eh?

What was the question? The rampant flagging here is quite annoying.

Do you have some further reading where one can understand the basics of the subject?

The vast majority of non-EA charity givers to not expend effort on trying to find the most dollar efficient charities (or indeed pushing for quantification at all), which makes their altruism ineffectual in a world with strong competition between charities (where the winners are inevitably those who spend the most on acquiring donations).

This is already true to a great extent. A family with lots of genetic health conditions are probably going to remain poor.

While steelmanning is a great practice, it sometimes feels a bit unfair that many positions are not allowed to be steelmanned (socially or otherwise).

Sadly I don't have time to go into it now, but they're massively overpaying due to miscallibrated risk tolerance. (Paying tens of millions per QALY is not a good use of money, 1 milliSv per year is an utterly insane goal)

The actual disaster had noticably bad short term effects on only a small area and long term effects on a tiny area.

> Fukushima - meltdown, too-small containment vessel, large disaster.

Probably overselling the "large" there... at least on the scale of global power production.

And yet somehow there are infinity times more reals than rationals...

Very hard to get your head around!

Honestly, a future where diplomas are just noise and employers stop caring about them and thus young people stop wasting years of their lives "learning" something they don't care about sounds like a huge improvement.

LLM cheaters might incidentally be doing society a service.

Can't see any eugenics there, can you quote?

They probably suspect you to be a slow coder who writes code with bad abstractions because they percieve the maths skills as how one does things in software engineering.

This is silly, many countries use consumer messaging for internal communications. The UK government famously uses whatsapp for example.

This doesn't apply to literal ASI, mostly because copy-pasteable intelligence is an absolute gamechanger, particularly if the physical interaction problems that prevent exponential growth (think autonomous robot factory) are solved (which I'd assume a full ASI could do).

People keep comparing to other tools, but a real ASI would be an agent, so the right metaphor is not the effect of the industrial revolution on workers, but the effect of the internal combustion engine on the horse.

This entire thread is worthless social media junk food.

Disgruntled ex-employee disparaging their old colleagues and bosses is extremely common, I don't get why this is getting so many upvotes...

Right now, sure. But when a 21 year old is picking a field they need to think 10 years from now.

Is DEI really centrist? I thought it was progressive left... It definitely used to be.

Do we have any surveys on this?

Maybe BlueSky has changed since last I looked, but it used to very progressive activist politically. On Twitter I can see right wing, centrist and left wing commentary.

> I think my main takeaway for sites like /pol/ is that you can't really pretend to act one way for humor for extended periods of time without it rubbing off on you in one way or another and that there are too many young people out there that stumble upon places like that and adopt those views since they lack the world experience yet to have formed their own.

As someone with an experience similar to this I think the route is more like:

You do the edgy trolling. You try to get better at being edgy by coming up with better and better arguments for the edgy thing. You start having doubts of "wait, this actually sounds like a good reason?". You have no one to actually seriously discuss the issue with because its outside the Overton Window (ostracisation or bans would be given in serious places if you entertained the ideas), instead you find only stupid strawman arguments. Years of not finding anything to beat those arguments gradually shifts your views.

This effect is one of the reasons I think it's extremely important to have as wide an Overton Window as possible and proper serious safe spaces to talk about taboo things.

The vast majority of people will get stressed talking to people they think are evil or against their values. Someone breaking down in tears because another person says they "don't give a fuck about the bloody Gazans" is not behaving particularly unusually.

The views don't matter as much as how strongly they are held.

"Politics" is a stupid word because everyone has a different idea about what it means and so they all talk past each other.

It's in favor of not having relationships break down in your community/company.

Only a small percentage of people are able to handle fundamental disagreements calmly and without it bleeding over to other interactions.

Will the SE and sales guy work as well together if the former knows the latter donates half his commission money to organizations that help kill babies?

> I never EVER saw politicians act proactively for the good of the nation or the people,

This is almost certainly because those cases don't make the news.

While the manner of layoff, role of layoff and person to lay off all seem foolish, profits do not mean that layoffs are a bad idea. You should hire people you need and if you want to good in the world, donate to the most effective charities (in QALYs/£).

You can use numbeo to compare. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Basically, almost all places, particularly in the UK, have worse salary to cost of living ratios.

> It is about total benefit to society, period.

It's about benefit to society per cost. If you can fire someone over here and hire someone over there in a role that brings more benefit to society, that's good. Eg. Fire the telephone sanitizer hire the addict rehabilitator.

It would by a "correlational clusters" gender definition put some transwomen in a mostly male gender (though, again, you'd have a lot more than two genders with with that definition).

And correlational clusters is one of the few ways it's not just semantics.