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Human | Husband | Father | Liberal all the way | Political nerd by passion (used to work in the field a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...) #Tolkien #StarWars #StarTrek #SciFi #PolSci #Science #Climate #🟦 #NAFO 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally 😺⚽🏒🏈🎞️🎭📺📻📚

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Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4w ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 4w ago

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Emily Kay@emilylkay.bsky.social · 4w ago

I Stand With Pink! Thank you, Pink, and Shana Tova

Pink Explains Slamming Macklemore’s Pro-Palestine Performances, Acknowledges Heavy Backlash: ‘I’m Standing Up for My Own People, and I Thought I Knew How Lonely That Would Be. It’s Lonelier Than That’

Pink had fallen silent in the face of backlash from many quarters following her reposting a call for Macklemore to be dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour in the wake of his nightly pro-Palestinian songs ...

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Dan Whitehead@danwhitehead.net · last mo.

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last mo.

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · last mo.

I wish people who "just have questions" about trans issues would spend even five minutes just *trying* to research trans issues. Because the inevitable conclusion I get from 95% of people who do this is that all they really want is their internal discomfort with trans people validated.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last mo.

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.

America’s trend toward higher profits, higher share prices, and mounting executive pay but near stagnant wages is unsustainable — economically and politically. It's time to bring back profit sharing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Share the Profits! Why US business must return to rewarding workers properly | Robert Reich

The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.

Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have risen just 12.5% — according to NBC.