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Also Debate or alignment via market making is a infohazard gain-of-function lab

Additional problem with alignment via debate: Löbian circuits discoverable via mutual introspection, allow for deceptive cooperation

@Paradox I would love that I think

Current gf would not be happy with it

Wandering around on holiday today and feeling the daygame itch

In Edinburgh atm if any mutuals want to meet

dunking on bad yt video, sarcasm, carnivores doing carnivore things 

@phseiff subscribe for informative paleontology dunks

@Paradox I don't have a writeup, but I try to follow what's outlined in these podcasts (link to first episode):

uncoiling.substack.com/p/romeo

With the explicit goal of deep transformation/e-word

Meditation has (unlike most other things) increasing marginal returns

I wish e/acc would write down their position in more detail

It seems less & less likely that deepfakes will have a big impact

They've been available for half a decade now, what happened? Baaically nothing

@aquarial True for transitivity, still feels unsatisfactory

@rune

I will also give away some of my income, because I believe these things! It'll be ~10%, since i don't have 11 bio. (or 125 bio. dollars)

@rune

6. Neither is ~125 bio., although the case is less clear here—but the Giving Pledge doesn't say anything about how that money is supposed to be used, and indeed I believe it's going to be used for mostly stupid stuff. I don't consider the Giving Pledge to be an effective altruist institution, because the lack of constraints on effectiveness.

@rune (And not just use it for money laundering).

4. Giving away all your money immediately is *not* the optimal way to make the world better. It would be pretty stupid to do that.

5. 11 billion dollars is *not* sufficient to solve even one global problem. And there are many of those: global poverty, climate change, factory farming, global catastrophic biorisk…

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