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“Eliezer has sometimes made statements that are much stronger than necessary for his larger point, and those statements turn out to be false upon close examination” is something I already generically believe, e.g. see here.

I get the impression that this guy (whose job at an AGI thinkpiece institute founded by a cryptobillionaire depends on believing this) would say this about ALL of EYs statements, leaving his larger point floating in the air, "supported" by whatever EY statements you aren't currently looking at.

I strongly predict that a decent chunk of the high-contributing users who LW has already lost would've been less likely to leave and would be more likely to return with marginal movement in that direction [deciding to do exactly what I wanted].

"I have to stress that the people who are not here to speak for themselves (top people, mind you) are right here with me. They're just out of frame, agreeing with me."

You don't have to spit on cops and antagonize them to not speak to them or offer them any info.

Wait until you're in a protest with knowledgeable people who have your back to square up against the police.

https://archive.is/rDQPO

There was a satirical addon back in this day that would change the Firefox name every time you opened it to like WaterHippo or SunJackal to make fun of this.

We should improve society somewhat.

"The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!" - Big Bill Haywood, 1929

I use the Spotify data via Every Noise at Once (https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=name&name=) to gather band suggestions, but it is an annoying amount of work compared to having a script that sees all of my music and makes a playlist of 20+ songs using that data for me. Have not found a solution for that.

"The West has far too much freedom and needs to give people the option to voluntarily constrain themselves: in food, in sex, in religion and in the computational inputs they accept."

Incoherent gibberish, too dumb to realize how mask off he is.

I respect a weird bit. Gotta keep people on their toes.

Maybe the admins can check their connection logs and tell us how many accounts (like me) are viewing on desktop versus mobile.

He didn't post it to "https://lemm.ee/c/meta", he posted it to https://lemmy.world/c/meta@lemm.ee, which is on lemmy.world but federates to other servers via lemm.ee.