It’s an alivist bias that stems from an extraordinarily privileged position.

The sheer arrogance of demanding security in extending the temporal reach of one's own entropy-producing activities. When literally every single ancestor followed the natural convention.

Real x-risk means that a superintelligent AI wants to end biological life in every instance of the multiverse, what we're dealing with is just a scary sounding local limit of survivability.

LeCun, 2026:

“It's highly plausible that accidental AGI misalignment due to goal misspecification can lead to asymptotically everybody dying. But that doesn‘t mean that it's the optimal way to achieve human extinction!“

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So if GiveWell recommends the Against Malaria Foundation, and Giving What We Can (@givingwhatwecan.bsky.social) recommends people give 10% of their income to effective charities, that makes a lot of sense to me.

And it's likely (even) more effective than taxing billionaires.

What Effective Altruism (in my opinion) does well, is that those people really think about what the *most* neglected areas and most neglected people are.

The extremely poor (Malaria), animals (ending factory farming), etc. are things that most states don‘t do that much for.

This is not an argument against higher taxes in the US. It's an argument for why I don't think it's necessarily true the state is the most effective way to help the ones most in need. Especially an extremely rich western state.

The US state (or the German state, where I live), doesn't exactly do what I would want my taxes to do. I think the US prioritises US citizens to a degree it shouldn't, esp. under a Trump administration.

And deprioritises the global poor.

I prefer the Against Malaria Foundation instead!

How does it do that?

I donate 10% of my income to the Against Malaria Foundation (which, according to GiveWell, gives me probably the best bang for my buck).

I do that because of EA people & ideas. And because Malaria fucking sucks and we should end it.

What's your problem with me doing this?

Civility? Not you too, Paul, no!! I don't want to have to block you if you keep going down that road

textbook Vlad, such a him thing to say. Totally giving vlad vibes, 100% unfiltered just like I knew him

Underrated. Rice and tofu can already both be delicious just as they are, many don't know this.

It took the Japanese hundreds of years to figure out that just putting a slice of tuna on some rice is a good dish, and then the whole world went crazy for it 20y ago!

Somebody needs to write an article criticising that reply while misunderstanding it, otherwise it doesn‘t really count

This is just surprisingly fun to play around with

I'm so glad Biden pardoned the writers for adding that fantastical element

I can't believe they made a whole movie inspired by alien intelligences built on complex self-attending architectures—and then found out they scale so well they now make a new iteration every couple of years.

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