Should *Luke Skywalker* be out fighting Marxists?!

Yes, yes I think he should.

Narrator: “But it is.”

I know just the one.

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Many such cases.

None of these technologies is bullshit.

We recently released an interview w/ Gregory Salmieri .

youtube.com/watch?v=iwyNkc…

We cover:

- Concepts like 'intelligence,' 'volition,' 'consciousness.'
- Whether #generativeAI has any of these things, and how we'd know.
- How property rights would apply to dangerous emerging tech.

That response makes him at least an 8.

I don’t think that every startup should employ philosophers, exactly, but I do think a certain subset of startups that could really benefit from it underinvests in intellectual clarity and moral vision.

I started graying around 14 or 15. This caused people to just assume I was mature and filled with information, which image I then kind of grew into.

In the whole, I’d say it was a win for everyone.

That must be why they’re called Locust Language Models.

As should we all.

This is akin to saying that there’s no dichotomy between alchemy and chemistry because alchemists made some valid scientific discoveries.

But that’s clearly false.

People talk about the lost joy of childhood, but a benefit of having children is that you receive a socially sanctioned avenue for recapturing that.

If a guy spends hours on tickle fights and making goofy faces w/ his kids, no one can say sh*t to him--he's just being a good dad.

It's not fair to expect Don Watkins 🇮🇱 to be on fire all the time, he's got a lot of content to put out!

In 5th grade, my teacher gave similar feedback on one of my papers.

She said something like, 'My god, we get it, you're clever. But the point of writing is to *communicate*, and that's not what you're doing here.'

It remains one of the most valuable things I learned in school.

You know those ancient structures people think aliens *must* have made because the stones or whatever are so perfectly cut you can't even slide a piece of paper betwixt them?

Turns out that can be done with fairly rudimentary chemistry.

Relevant to Samo Burja and Jason Crawford