Dylan Richardson

Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing. How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

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People will never cease to amaze me.

It's actually kind of striking how these arguments are stupid and don't matter because they don't have any predictive power, and if the prediction is "These systems can't do knowledge work", then those predictions are simply wrong.

I'm not even saying Anthropic is good but they are easily the best we are ever going to get

Putting your other contentions aside for the moment, you are pretty mislead about the actual state of thought in contemporary Philosophy of Mind if you think anything Askell said here is especially contentious.

There's a considerable spread of perspective, but nothing she said is uniquely unusual.

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It's already in vogue. It was out of vogue between the trump admins not during!

Kinda confused about the meta conversation, but isn't slimy more fitting?

Powdery is more with rough and coarse.

There's a possibility that the best thing to do is to cultivate many different online spaces, with short screen time caps on each.

Good thing to learn about, but I hope you differentiate between "wacky things Musk says" and the actual philosophical movement behind that name.
These are not the same ideologies or individuals.

This is a fake distinction.

I haven't looked into cat food specifically, but it is plausibly better to feed them ruminant based food. Many more fish than land animals and chickens than cows. Though it depends on the type of fish, wild caught without bottom trawling might be OK.

Good you are thinking about it though!

The idea that we need to deport 100 million people - almost one out of every three Americans! - was, a year ago, a deranged claim you’d hear from neo-Nazis to give themselves permission for limitless mass violence. Now it’s coming directly from this horrific agency’s horrific press office

Key word here is "naturalized".

I don't mind the offset part, it's the weird self-defeating antagonism toward veganuary that got my attention.

The Birth Lottery Draw again from the birth lottery to take a different sample from the way the circumstances outside your control go for living beings on Earth today.

I made a birth lottery roller, inspired by Giving What We Can's, but inclusive of nonhuman animals!

birth-lottery.thetetra.space

Probably the most disappointing AI use I've found is updating resumes and cover letters.

It just doesn't beat the baseline of me doing it myself. Even if I give it past resumes/letters & c/p the job description, it stills infers false things and over-indexes on particular requirements.

It's the paradigmatic case of a highly effective GHD intervention, arguably *the* most effective, as evaluated by GiveWell.
Especially when preferring high-certainty for most lives saved per dollar.

Birth Lottery If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

I happened to be born Swiss but I could just as easily have been born anywhere else. Where would the universe place you if you were born again today? Spin the globe - it’s a powerful reality check → www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

Present!

Do you find yourself incapable of making such prioritization distinctions?

Or is this just a flaw that everyone else has?

Guess Europe's second most farmed land animal. Pigs? Cows? Ducks?

It's rabbits — over 140 million are slaughtered annually, second only to chickens

And most live in cages on industrial farms

Appears the allegations were true

I'm not well informed, but I kind of suspect this is an example of the street light effect.

Starbucks union activity is a thing...so let's go get outraged!

But surely there are far more concerning industries for workers out there. Perhaps these tend to be ones without unions in the first place...

Both.
And they seem definitely worthwhile relative to the cost imo. Even if the slowdown is just on the order of months, that seems desirable given many intelligence explosion + value lock-in scenarios.

In general I think there's probably relatively few who have considered the matter so intensely that they actually *feel* that a 90% p-doom means they'll die young.

I'm betting the vast majority of doomers are more characterized by being drawn to grand claims and cohesive social identity markers.

I would say both directions too, although if your sample is composed of rationalists, I doubt there would be many anti-safety concern hedgehogs. On this app there would be.

Yes, but probably even more so by Tetlock's hedgehog vs fox distinction.

I often have the feeling that the number of fascinating, reality-derived sci-fi stories is waaaaay under accounted for by actual film and literature.

Give me 5 minutes and I'll have a dozen greats, yet the same boring tropes appear again and again.

These needn't be very principled or consistent demands/choices, but they at least have to be present somewhat.

People may not object to factory farms very vociferously, but they would object if I tortured a pig in my basement.