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holy wow, just....whoaquote:I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:42 |
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didnt read gas thread ban op
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:44 |
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your post was too long. i didn't read it
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:47 |
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As a Millennial I posted:your post was too long. i didn't read it sorry e: its actually quite "funy comoputer" but i respect that your time is valuable
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:49 |
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OP i'm gonna need some bolding here for the funy computer parts
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:50 |
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this sure is a thread
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:53 |
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oh i found itquote:Correction: This article originally stated that the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is in Oakland; it's in Berkeley.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 19:59 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:OP i'm gonna need some bolding here for the funy computer parts Effective altruism (or EA, as proponents refer to it) is more than a belief, though. It's a movement, and like any movement, it has begun to develop a culture, and a set of powerful stakeholders, and a certain range of worrying pathologies. At the moment, EA is very white, very male, and dominated by tech industry workers. And it is increasingly obsessed with ideas and data that reflect the class position and interests of the movement's members rather than a desire to help actual people. In the beginning, EA was mostly about fighting global poverty. Now it's becoming more and more about funding computer science research to forestall an artificial intelligence–provoked apocalypse. At the risk of overgeneralizing, the computer science majors have convinced each other that the best way to save the world is to do computer science research. Compared to that, multiple attendees said, global poverty is a "rounding error." I identify as an effective altruist: I think it's important to do good with your life, and doing as much good as possible is a noble goal. I even think AI risk is a real challenge worth addressing. But speaking as a white male nerd on the autism spectrum, effective altruism can't just be for white male nerds on the autism spectrum.
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:14 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Effective altruism (or EA, as proponents refer to it) is more than a belief, though. It's a movement, and like any movement, it has begun to develop a culture, and a set of powerful stakeholders, and a certain range of worrying pathologies. At the moment, EA is very white, very male, and dominated by tech industry workers. And it is increasingly obsessed with ideas and data that reflect the class position and interests of the movement's members rather than a desire to help actual people. gonna have to be shorter than this buddy
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:16 |
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iuf your thoughts cant fit into 140 chars then llol #smdh #getaload
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:16 |
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the rest of the article is filled with stuff like that, its not very long even stupid twitter generation can't even read a 2 page article
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:16 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I identify as an effective altruist: I think it's important to do good with your life, and doing as much good as possible is a noble goal. I even think AI risk is a real challenge worth addressing. But speaking as a white male nerd on the autism spectrum, effective altruism can't just be for white male nerds on the autism spectrum. lol
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:18 |
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i read the whole thing and lol kill all nerds
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:39 |
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so is effective altruism the same people as lesswrong
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 20:40 |
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Hammerite posted:so is effective altruism the same people as lesswrong i had only ever heard of the term before when i ran across a link to this one guy (literally named jeff k lol) who donates a bigger than average cut of his salary to data-driven poverty eradication groups. but then i ran across this article and just....lol the jeff guy gives money for like, anti-malaria nets and parasite treatments because he read research that found you can save lives this way for like 100bux a life. holy poo poo, that's pretty good right? nope, not good enough, gotta apply the soylent guy's ideas about "efficiency" and consider the billions of theoretical future people who might one day face down a matrix-style AI bent on the extermination of humans. prototype research robots are almost getting halfway decent at loading a dishwasher now, it's obviously only a few years until skynet, DUH
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 21:50 |
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pram posted:iuf your thoughts cant fit into 140 chars then llol #smdh #getaload nerds create charity, believe stopping the robot apocalypse is more important that world hunger
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 22:07 |
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thx #lol #killnerds
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# ? Aug 11, 2015 22:10 |
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i wish i could waste millions of dollars on naive futurist bullshit
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:02 |
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"oh no guys watch out AI is coming to kill us!" *the best AI in the world beats a chess grandmaster. sometimes.*
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 00:04 |
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Hammerite posted:so is effective altruism the same people as lesswrong I'm told: yes shocking, isn't it?
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 02:06 |
its amazing they found so many words to write the idea that they dont care about poor people
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 02:08 |
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Eonwe posted:its amazing they found so many words to write the idea that they dont care about poor people It's not that they don't care about poor people. it's that the only poor people they have ever paid more than a moment's thought to are fictional characters from science fiction films
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 02:48 |
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quote:The number of future humans who will never exist if humans go extinct is so great that reducing the risk of extinction by 0.00000000000000001 percent can be expected to save 100 billion more lives than, say, preventing the genocide of 1 billion people. lol that's a hop skip and a jump away from advocating genocide of 1 billion people for the greater good.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 03:24 |
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blugu64 posted:lol that's a hop skip and a jump away from advocating genocide of 1 billion people for the greater good. how can we minimise the number of people living in poverty? well,
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 09:26 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the soylent guy's ideas about "efficiency" idea: a challenge to raise awareness of water availability and water usage reality: a man stuffing himself into a plastic alibaba flightsuit, showering himself with an artisanal blend of dirt and bacteria, rounding out his diet with regular Rifaximin doses to ensure his turds are as dense as they are resistant to antibiotics
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 15:02 |
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Vlad the Retailer posted:idea: a challenge to raise awareness of water availability and water usage what the gently caress
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 19:53 |
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why does he think that flightsuit doesnt need to be cleaned lol
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 19:55 |
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pram posted:why does he think that flightsuit doesnt need to be cleaned lol oh god... didn't you see you're in for a treat http://genius.it/robrhinehart.com?p=1331
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:01 |
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whoops that's the annotated version here's the spoiler, but i recommend experiencing it yourself: he donates the old one and buys a new one
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:02 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:It's not that they don't care about poor people. it's that the only poor people they have ever paid more than a moment's thought to are fictional characters from science fiction films
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:03 |
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As a Millennial I posted:whoops that's the annotated version lmao
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:06 |
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On the production side I lean mostly toward polyester, which is not only easily recyclable, it has a negligible water footprint. For energy, a polyester t shirt takes about 12.5MJ to make, which is 3.5kWh, less than half a cycle in a washer and dryer. So if you’re not washing a bunch of clothes at once it can be more efficient to make new clothes than to wash them.
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:07 |
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tbh if i had no friends and didn't share an office, maybe i'd go soylent. i'm that boring of a person
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 20:09 |
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i've always wondered what the marginal resource cost of a buunch of paper plates is versus the average life of your ordnary set of 8 ceramic plates
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:03 |
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As a Millennial I posted:tbh if i had no friends and didn't share an office, maybe i'd go soylent. i'm that boring of a person ensure plus is designed by actual professionals and is subject to food production regulations also it is cheaper and comes in flavors
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:07 |
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but... is it made from algae
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:14 |
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I think it's time we recognize Universal Expert Disorder [aka the assumption of transitive competence] as a harmful mental illness
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:26 |
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pic of qirex locked up in an institution w/ bruce willis and brad pitt
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:31 |
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I am pretty good at math and logic therefore I must be good at solving all the world's problems
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# ? Aug 12, 2015 21:35 |
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i am p good at being a surgeon therefore i must be great at being an investor
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