Chana
@ChanaMessinger
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the stakes and the world and the stars Head of Video for 80,000 Hours - send me content ideas! Opinions are my own, though.
Berkeley, CA
Joined March 2009
Rationality is the art of not pretending you don't know things.
@ChanaMessinger my interpretation of that was when the stakes are high enough everyone stops pretending not to know things.
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I feel like people I know are increasingly likely to be on Joe Rogan in the near future so LISTEN TO ME when I say you MUST study up on quantum computing and aliens.
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The AI 2027 scenario is terrifying and important. More people should be thinking about how radical change might come over the next few years, how likely it is, and how a sane world would be reacting to it. We want to bring you into the story, and the conversation. Video here:
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If I may say so myself, it’s immersive, beautiful and compelling, with interviews to put the whole thing in context and a banger discussion of what a sane world would be doing. Huge props to our host of AI in Context, @AricFloyd !.
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Delighted to finally share with the world what I’ve been up to with the help of some incredible people — a video tour of the wave-making, Vice-Presidential-attention getting AI 2027 scenario. (Link below).
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Dawn Yang went so hard on the illustrations for the NYT Zizians article
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I just had a dream in which I spent a lot of time napping! Very weird.
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When I'm really sleep deprived I seem to dream more about sleeping.
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What's the best political art of the last 15 years? . So far I have: .- Hamilton.- This is America. I suspect I'm missing a lot in hip-hop and Palestinian art, and don't know about conservative art. Thoughts?.
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"Tell me about your friends!". "I feel like you're asking a lot of questions answered by my t-shirt"
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At the end of a response to "write the first four paragraphs of the declaration of Independence in the style of a less wrong blog post", chat ends with this beauty
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Won a hot dog eating contest today. I was behind, but mustard the fortitude to ketchup, and ate them all with relish. Sauerkraut.
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We have all these No Kings protests and yet Kaiser Permanente is still operational??!?.
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have you ever met a jewish woman.
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"Postmortem" would be a great name for a magazine about this kind of thing - follow ups, where is it now, etc . Intellectual accountability, the last note on takeaways. .
As far as I know, there has never been a real postmortem on the whole "$99 computers will pull the Third World out of poverty" bit that pretty much everyone in tech treated as serious for at least a decade. It moved from WIRED covers, TED talks, and UN proclamations to silence.
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