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Will Isaac Newsome
@willdoingthings
navigating between the Scylla of overusing metaphors and the Kraken of mixing them up
Berkeley/SFautothexis---gmail.isJoined September 2012

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This is pretty funny. I love how people keep testing the limits of rhetorically weaponized stupidity. 50% of my laughs on this site come from it and 50% from actual jokes. Feel like a lot of people would benefit from learning to see the humor in dumbassery.
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What is weird about the AI doomers is that the same people were utterly silent about the potential harms of social media. Is there something wholly broken about their understanding of human cognition and intelligence in general?
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not sure how much I agree with its sundry statements and connotations but this is a wonderfully provocative thread/stance
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security against ai risks needs to be stronger than hiding shit in the lab. the world doesn’t work like that. security against ai risks needs to be stronger than unenforceable international gpu control treaties. the world doesn’t work like that.
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Being right is its own reward but I was surprised to discover how little credit it gets you. One time I made a 'crazy' year-out prediction that came true, was clear number 1 in the forecast competition out of a few hundred, and this earned me zero acknowledgment let alone respect
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you were ahead of the curve. you went out, you gathered the pieces up, you put the puzzle together, and at great social cost you tried to warn everyone. and they were wrong. and you were right. do you know what you receive for this? absolutely nothing. you get nothing.
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Like a third of tweets I see in my For You feed could be fairly summarized as "boys vs. girls (love/hate)". It is crazy to me how interested y'all are in it. Men and women are just not that dissimilar from each other. It's such a narrow lens to look at human interaction through.
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i believe in God and providence but i'm not just gonna assume the singularity will go dandy by default, because i'm not an idiot whose 'beliefs' are entirely predicated on signaling social & ideological allegiances and thus can only end up in exhaustingly predictable clusters
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Getting my hair cut by kindly, pretty 32 year old latinas at SuperCuts for years as a kid probably shaped my sexuality more than anything else. They were always telling me how pretty my eyes were and how thick my hair was and how good I was at making the haircuts easy lol
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