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Anyone remember the South Park episode with the Prius emitting clouds of Smug?

Bowling Alone stats: slightly higher scores than bowling with other people stats.

Here are my desiderata:

Here are my eyes rolling out of my skull: 𝄇⥀.⥀𝄆

Saving the world sucks unless you do it while traveling the world in luxury as an EA "charity worker" maybe.

I made it to the second sentence and had to google "hedonium," which I figured was a portmanteau-type thing and indeed it was. In my search results for the word, I see LessWrong and Nick Bostrum at the top, so yeah.

I think the long content is a gullibility filter

Like those "one weird trick" videos that go on and on without displaying playback controls. Only the rubes get to the end.

When you make your alarmist arguments dishonestly, how can I freak out about the end of the world?

Let me translate one point:

People are already talking about an AI rights movement in major national papers

A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.

Haven't we all written a blog post with an "Acknowledgments" section at the end?

Those photos at them working all over the world in exotic locations, including the FTX condos in the Bahamas... ... and still referring to themselves as "charity workers."

I just tried it again. it's my Orbi wi-fi thing, every time I follow a link to LW - "Orbit has blocked a malware attempt."

I clicked the original LW link (not the archive link) and got a malware warning.

Because that would be the first thing I thought of, "AGI." Like, my kid is really depressed; if we only had developed a robot who could think.