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Effective Altruism with Kelsey Piper

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AI Alignment Is a Thing That Shouldn't Be Concerned

I can think of no historical examples in which we have successfully steered large-scale economic progress. Is there reason to believe that expending time and energy on this will allow us to avoid the world where like AI turns us into all into paper clubs anymore efficiently then if we just throw our hands in the air and say eh it'll be one of this? We are at very early stages like general ais aren't here yet but we have these fairly powerful systems you know they can like write a mediocre news article or make beautiful artwork. I don't know if we need to go down the rabbit hole about the repugnant inclusion we can slow their pugging inclusion okay so basically it's

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creates a lot of waste. That's ethan mannister. He's like a community manager for defunct boosted board users. He runs the discord for boosted boards and also is one of the mads on the subretit. And being in that kind of environmentalist front, as an architecture student, i have to worry a lot about where these products that i'm using for my education go. It's kind of antithetical if i'm, you know, practising sustainable building and sustainable design, i need to make sure that the things i'm using do not contribute to something that i'm trying to stop.
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This is really curious to me. I moult try to make an analogy, but it will see if it works or not. But i think it's really interesting that they still despite being modular, expect it to last seven years and then you get rid of it. And i wonder what that limiting factor is. Is it just because it's going to get too slow after seven years and won't support the sophora any more? Or is it just because, well, the other thing is, how many people want by a phone that isn't as performint because it will be more reparable in the future? Ah, and you're talking obout how there's so much colbalt in the world, but it's inside of gadgets that we don't use any more. And i'm thinking, like, i remember when i get like, a a note book for school, and i would like take notes on like, half the pages, and then once the class was over, i didn't need to take notes on it any more. And i just got rid of that note book. I didn't use the last fifty pages in the book. They're perfectly usable, blank pages, but i just don't feel the need to use those, because they're part of something i'm done using right?

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