what I’m looking for in a community is people who take rat/EA ideas as given, and “yes and” them by talking about feelings with a non-berkeley-rationalist-dialect. “tpot” feels frustrating to me because it used to be close to this and now isn’t. I just want a name for this

I had bad handwriting in college but all the TAs loved me because I’d latex all my notes and problems sets

MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌

Plausibly the answer is because this is actually just really expensive and very few families can afford it

one risk when having a child is that they will have a severe disability requiring lifelong care and other financial support. Why can’t I buy insurance against that risk

heterosexual dating discourse is totally not my lane I’ll probably delete this in a bit

Model Y Standard & Model 3 Standard are here

it kinda makes me feel weird when men on here complain about women not wanting to have kids but would never consider the possibility of becoming a stay at home dad

I haven’t paid much attention to Israel-Palestine recently but it’s pretty wild that Greta Thunberg solved the whole conflict good for her

compromise position on trans children: they can access hrt but they are not allowed to speak to any trans person over the age of 18. we can tell the conservatives that it’s to prevent pedophilia but actually it’s just to prevent brain worms from spreading

it is very nice to be in a context where you can assume that prices are fair. therefore, contrary to the Econ 101 take, offering someone a too-high price is bad for them and creates negative externalities

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it’s very hard to get an unfiltered view of how people spend their time. this post is my best attempt at that: I’d appreciate if you responded to this with what you’ve been doing for the past 30 minutes

something strange about getting over it. you think its going to follow you around forever and then one day you realize you found something completely new to obsess over. its only a strange loop when you're looking at it, but when you're not, its more like a dragon. happy hunting

someone missed the post on conservation of expected evidence

mom who joins the pause ai protests because she thinks that her ai-capabilities-researcher son works too hard and could use a break

reminder that the people selling in the second picture are making a mistake

listening to the yudkowsky podcast makes me want to give up on working on AI safety. and like I’ve read his million-word fanfiction multiple times I should not be a hard audience here

guy who supports this policy because it slows down AI

listening to a podcast I loved during 2020 and they are unironically talking about TESCREAL ideology it’s funny to see how far I’ve come

okay I’ve had enough of people liking this and moving on. starting a group chat to cultivate this vibe* and think about what lives we want to have after the singularity. reply if you want in *subject to backing out in disgrace if not enough props

im realizing that when I read posts on the timeline I mentally model the other person as having different life experiences and different takes on things but mostly shared values, especially on things that aren’t the current post. now realizing that’s often not true

real abrogail thrune hours

new EA cause area: give basic economics lessons to sci fi authors