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@ChanaMessinger
devoted to hawkish logic and quarrelsome empiricism the stakes and the world and the stars (I work at CEA but opinions here are my own)
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I will say that there are people whose opinions I really respect and it can feel hard to say something I worry they'll think is dumb. This feels pretty normal and human, some of them do well at countering this, some less well, mostly people are pretty nice.
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quick someone do a Fermi on how much of the UK/US productivity gap can be explained by the time it takes to type more "u"s in words
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During SBF stuff there was a tweet about how you can't buy anything bigger than a car, you can't really buy impact directly, you're buying some amount of influence over some organization with a bunch of people who you hope will create impact - anyone know what I'm talking about?
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If you'd like to use squiggle (programming language for generating probability distributions) better, or more than you currently do, or learn how to use it, there's a walkthrough / practice planned for today in conjunction with the newly posted tutorial.
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“Google listed copyright, privacy and antitrust as the primary risks of the technology in the slide presentation.” I’m pretty sure the primary risks are the emergence of beyond-human intelligence, artificial consciousness, and humanity’s annihilation.
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I feel like all of a sudden there's a norm of putting who a google doc is and can be shared with at the top and it seems great and if it was already happening then even greater.
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It's so interesting and cool that not all humans want to be happy they want other things instead. Though sometimes humans don't want to be happy for sad reasons and I want to fix that.
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Probably good to have a nagging bad feeling if in a decision-relevant conversation where A is sayable but not-A is not (though this proves a little too much). But also good to have the skill to say not-A when it's socially complicated in a way that doesn't sound adversarial.
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If you're one of the people who doesn't use guesstimate as often as you'd like, come try it out with us!
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Also, join us in the EA Gathertown at 6pm GMT to get a feel for Guesstimate and ask any questions you have! [3/3] forum.effectivealtruism.org/events/Ehh7KYJ
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There's a bunch of interesting tools for thought and truth-seeking out there that maybe could be used more and better, and has been putting a bunch of work into collecting them, making tutorials for them and creating a sequence that will be coming out over this week.
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On the EA forum today, an introduction to the project I’ve been working on! Ever struggled to explain a view or find a crux? I've written quick introductions on software tools I think could be underused to help collaborative truth-seeking like this! [1/3] forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5WQQvoHr
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Why do only browsers (and some file explorers) have tabs? I'd be down for whatsapp tabs so I can see multiple conversations at once. Is there a technical reason?
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Very little makes me go look things up like starting to type out "but I haven't looked into this at all."
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Was anyone in MUN in college / high school for a good team? Can I talk to you about your crisis committee?
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Anyone know any experts in crisis preparation / tabletop exercises / that kind of thing? I'd be curious to interview them.
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Going to use "happy to blank slate this conversation" or "can we blank slate this conversation" as a way of erasing conversational debt for my anxious friends and my anxious mes who want to talk to people without thinking of all the failed nonresponses right there in the chat.
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