A great example of wank, all over the AI sentience question.

Any BlueSky discussion of EA/Longtermism:

Dustin Moskovitz: 😐

I think your view of longtermism is a bit exaggerated.

But also, you are wrong about it being so overwhelmingly dominant.
This is a little bit out of date, but I think it roughly holds up: rethinkpriorities.org/research-are...

"Billionaire Philanthropist One Shot By Basic Moral Philosophy At 5% Power."

Le Guin for the win.

I said that mostly because of your comment on AI - that IS directly opposite the goal of AI safety.

AI safety folk are largely *against* "growing" "intelligences". Eg the "EA affiliated Pause AI movement literally wants LLM training to be stopped.

You *are* mistaken here.

Reading the 2nd Robert Caro LBJ book right now - astonishing how he stole the 1949 Texas Senate election! Remind you of anyone...?

He won by 87 votes out of 988,295.

Accurate.

Saw this ad on Insta recently. No more telling indication of the taboos around these topics than the price that sperm banks have to set.

LOL. Let's hope sanctuary cities hold up... www.cato.org/blog/preside...

It sometimes feels like the religious right has faded in significance in recent years, but it still has significant power unfortunately.