Jessica Livingston's personal stake in OpenAI is maybe at most 0.1% or less and Paul Graham's, afaik, is 0.

So the bias doesn't seem as large as OP thinks

*https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2041366050693173393

And "toughness, adaptability, and determination" >>> "ambition", frankly

A: while world3 has be shown to be quite descriptive, the centre right (Nielsen) won't be persuaded, they need market-based narratives that (pre)scribe themselves.

In TFA, Nielsen signalled that he was open to "left-curious" ideas from 2023 Buterin.

Left-curious in the sense that the d in d/acc means both "defensive" and "decentralized"; one then squints and sees restraint/redistribution..

Q: Yet, solar-first power markets as a harbinger of d/acc don't move the centre-right one millimetre to the left. Why is this so? What would an "solar economy rebrand" of AGI (or ASI) that gets buy-in from the (centre-)right look like?

(It's not that I don't think programmers need to be sold on d/acc.. ngl, I believe convincing the centre-right is easier than it sounds, given the rep-damage that crypto has taken in the worldviews of non-libertarians

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr... )

While in the shower I came up with the following refinement:

Stochastic hubris=best preemptive defence against the gods

(And then what does Kelly say ;)

Your way sounds like what my friends call "symbol pushing": writing programs, not worrying about the compiler, or whether the program is "worth" writing in the first place.

But you sound like a person who likes to think deeply about what kinds of programs are worth writing. (Or else why care about AI in the first place? AI is the end of carefree programming? )

What I'd like to understand is whether your President (& his advisers) understands why Iran had to be attacked.

That will inform his decision on which actions he will take to "help open up the Strait" in the short term. These decisions will then inform us somewhat of his long term strategy for Korea, if he has any.

Does he think that ~5000 troops are truly required to be good neighbours? Does he think LNG is critical to the long term industrial policy? Then you'd know which factories to apply to (defence, definitely, but details matter too, like, are you a man of peace? :)

dubito, ergo sum

From this, I can go in practical (ie, separable from free will & other ontological considerations) directions, like:

insofar as organised religion does not equate existence with faith, maybe its most important use is to overcome the fear of death.

That's cool enough for me, but maybe there are other less "brainwashy", "respectful to the free will[0]" ways to overcome fear of meaninglessness/death/lack of validation from the world, plus all the anguish that these preceding emotional distractions entail?

[0] we do not have to admit the existence of free will in order to respect it? Thus can we substitute God with Free Will everywhere but retain the practical benefits of respecting free will without the ontological difficulties with the precise nature of God?

>"his host would believe"

I spy a 2-month-old Sz host who thinks like me and acts like "you":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952359

>I can see fragments of knowledge that he cannot hide

(>500 points in a couple(?) posts, presumably highlypaid hardware hacker to freelance software)

Principal-agent problem is supposed to be a 2-body problem but most interesting social problems are at least 3-agent problems

From your post on cosmetic KPIs, I sensed some Taoist Duality; so lemme highlight this other hint of Trinity:

>face is no longer the surface

face is natural and powerful medium for communication. Any connection to worldly things --- wealth or even suffering --- can only damage its efficacy.

Beyond duality of "overstated agency of rich" and "understated wisdom of not-super-poor" there exists a 3rd way:

  Universal freedom through mastery of communicative facial rationality.

I also replied to your posts here, here and here, as thoughtfully as I could

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970518

(was ghostbanned, so I had to use a new acct)