Editing Morals (section)

=== 2023 ===

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|content=Only a few years ago “AI safety” was a fringe topic outside East Bay futurists. 

[[Morals|Moral]]: pay attention to things that have not yet become concrete. Normal people, for reasons that remain opaque, cannot consider outcomes that have never before happened. 

cc: @ESYudkowsky
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: China already knows what we are doing by and large. American science is built on a model: they supply highly reliable workers, we supply our asymmetric scientific advantages born of our freedom. Don’t hate the PRC and their students. The US is always giving away the store.
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|content=“Graduate Students in STEM” is mostly a euphemism for America’s dirt cheap scientific workforce. Everyone in Science knows this by the way &amp; admits it behind closed doors. Everyone.

[We lie in public just to save millions FYI.]

Now let’s talk about that overflight by a balloon.
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|content=My point: you public servants have protected AND failed too much. You smear *every* one of us who merely trips over your mile-wide trail of incompetent statecraft from Bagram to Wuhan that passes through 71st St Manhattan &amp; east of Dayton.

[[Morals|MORAL]]: Protect less or succeed more. 🙏
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|content=Imagine if it were leaked that COVID came from an NIH grant: “This-has-no-business-being-in-the-public-domain.”

Or if Epstein were foreign intelligence operating with tacit approval of the US IC: “This-is-not-intended-for-public-consumption.”

Capisce?

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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Think carefully whether you wish to think carefully. It may be a serious mistake. There is good reason to think we will not think carefully until there is a spectacular close call. And even then it may not be enough. Stare at reality at your own peril. And good luck.
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|content=You aren’t getting it. We have been in @sapinker’s bubble for 70 years since late 1952 early 1953.

You are simply finding the first conversation that proves to you that none of us (myself very much included) are truly thinking. What is beginning to happen is inconceivable.
|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|content=Let me put it this way. Consider that where we are drives everyone who starts to get it totally mad from the perspective of normal people. Several examples: 

Edward Teller (Fusion)</br>
@ESYudkowsky (AI)</br>
Jim Watson (DNA)

If you start to realize where we really are you become warped.
|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|content=So the reason you are having these conversations is that you are talking to defense mechanisms. You are talking to people choosing a form of sanity (social sanity) over reality. 

And there is no monastic group yet looking at what is headed our way. Why is that? It’s so dumb.
|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|content=Simply put, the central mystery is the non-use of H bombs and genetic engineered plague for the 70 years we have had such insight into god like power. @sapinker’s illusion of you will. Why worry? Things just get better. And better.

To really understand this moment is to go mad.
|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|content=We haven’t seen swarms of facial recognition attack drones. Or engineered targeted plagues. Or H bomb use. Or climate calamity. Or total Market implosions. Etc. Etc. So it will simply not happen because it hasn’t. 

I don’t know what to tell you. You are often a careful thinker.
|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|timestamp=12:22 AM · May 14, 2023
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|content=I don’t get this at all. Dark matter is not sketchy. Neutrinos as extremely light electrically neutral leptons are *almost* dark. 

People ask me what I hate about String Theory and Quantum Gravity culture. It is this. The endless ST/QG propaganda and smearing of critics makes it look like  Dark Matter, Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Dark Energy, extra dimensions, etc. are all part of a Bullshit offensive of speculative nonsense.

I have been extremely harsh because this culture has left an impression with non-researchers that all of high energy particle physics theory  is ‘sketch’. Bullshit. One tiny group of people with an unusual scientific ethics of both overselling unsuccessful ideas and bad mouthing rival colleagues doesn’t have the right to destroy the credibility of this amazing community.

Even Supersymmetry and String Theory aren’t Sketch…Let alone dark matter and dark energy. And I am among the longest standing public critics wiling to say that string theory and quantum gravity are totally failing as solid physics programs. 

[[Morals|MORAL]]: Sketchy culture leave the impression that the science is sketchy. NO!! It’s the *culture* not the *theory* that is ‘sketch’. That is why we need to call out the unethical behavior that is undermining support and understanding of fundamental physics.

🙏
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