But you'll never connect the dots. It will be "just" a layoff, "just" higher prices for everything, "just" a mortgage of 10% and stagflation everywhere on Earth.

Buckle up, my insouciant friend; you will find the future both hard and surprising.

Five years at 2mil per ship will make Iran rich.

To the extent that AI is a successful interface, it will necessarily be addressable in language previously only suited to people. So it is responsible to begin thinking of it as such, even tendentiously, so we don't miss some leverage that our wetware could see if we thought about it in that way.

Think of it as sort of like modelling a univariate function on a 2D Cartesian plane -- there is nothing 'in' the u-func that makes it graphable, but, by enabling us to recruit specialized optic-chiasm subsystems, it makes some functions much, much easier to reason about.

Similarly, if you can recruit the millions (billions?) of evolution-years that were focused on detecting dangerous antisocial personalities and tendencies, you just might spot something important in an AI.

It's worth doing for the precautionary principle alone, if not for the possibility of insight.

Congratulations, you have won American Post of the Day

Do not universalize your temptation to graft

This guy isn't a liberal, he's a guy looking to justify his discomfort by dressing it up with a bit of rehydrated bible-school epistemology

The Orange-utan typically requires his newly-onboarded minions to do something odious or seemingly hypocritical, in contradiction to either regular moral sense or their own stated scruples, such that without his sponsorship, they would have no hope of being taken seriously. Their political capital becomes hostage capital.

Sometimes it's something small, like RFKjr's famous cheeseburger shot on AF1. But usually it's election denialism.

The other guy who famously did this to his associates is of course Epstein.

Funny how they seem to be running the same playbook! Almost like they knew each other real well