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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 27, 2023

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I don't think he actually believes it, and even so it's like trying to prove a negative. Why is he trying hard to lose weight on twitter if he's not even going to be around to enjoy it? The objective is to get someone like Thiel, Musk, or Vitalik Buterin to drop some big $.

Lex is also a fucking moron throughout the whole conversation, he can barely even interact with Yud's thought experiments of imagining yourself being someone trapped in a box, trying to exert control over the world outside yourself, and he brings up essentially worthless viewpoints throughout the whole discussion. You can see Eliezer trying to diplomatically offer suggested discussion routes, but Lex just doesn't know enough about the topic to provide any intelligent pushback or guide the audience through the actual AI safety arguments.

Lex almost never pushes back hard. that is part of his brand, and is how he gets top guests, who don't want to be put on a hotseat.

Lex almost never pushes back hard.

It was funny (not quite in a haha way) when Lex loosely asserted that he believed that people would 'wake up' to the threat and billionaires and governments would start pouring money into solving alignment, he even put a timeline on it.

EY immediately asks him if he wants to place a bet on it, and Lex pulls the most inartful pivot/deflection I've ever seen to not just avoid agreeing to put money on his 'prediction' but having to even explain his prediction, or acknowledge that he was just challenged.

I mean, treating your guest with kid gloves is one thing, but here you've got a guy who WANTS the hotseat, and is openly trying to turn up the temperature and you just completely drop the line of questioning you were on. If he's intentionally playing dumber than he is than bravo, I believe his performance.

I don't think he actually believes it, and even so it's like trying to prove a negative. Why is he trying hard to lose weight on twitter if he's not even going to be around to enjoy it?

The most merciful thing about the human mind something something correlate all its contents something something.

It's unreasonable to expect day-to-day behavior to be completely in accord with abstract beliefs. He is still a monkey who wants higher status. Religious fanatics will still look at porn, and moral nihilists will still get outraged at someone who milkshakes their kid.

Why is he trying hard to lose weight on twitter if he's not even going to be around to enjoy it?

He wants that sweet nerd pussy, duh. He's in his 40s and poly, that means his prime is right now.

MIRI has done donation drives before. They aren't doing them now. Maybe this is 4D-chess reverse psychology, but gee he seems legitimately distressed by all this.

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