I’m coming to san francisco does any one want to hang out?.

Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything

@moultano Are you familiar with Harsanyi's aggregation theorem? Surprisingly modest assumptions on utility force the social utility function to be a sum of member's utility functions.

Every time I get into a back and forth with utilitarians I have to point out that aggregation fns other than Sum exist. Consider Sum(x)/(1+Sum(x)). Math doesn't have any requirement that shrimp utility be linear in shrimp, nor have a global upper bound.

SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

a bomb is about to go off that will kill all shrimp, rendering them extinct. you have a button that can stop this but it kill a random human somewhere in the world. do you press the button?.

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, . so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '. (found via HN)

Unironically I think the cumulative effects of something small don’t really matter and it’s dumb to think about that.