Nina (@NinaPanickssery) on X (original) (raw)
there’s a grain of joke in every joke
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I'm just a grabby-alien parent living in the age of em dash 
example is the one job a pig would be least likely to do in pigsociety
It should not be illegal to give bad advice! That’s how you end up with a society where no-one is willing to give any advice at all.
People will really be like “you believe in having a family? that pales in impact compared to my strategy, having a great career” and then have a totally banal career
When you tell a LessWronger that probably they can start a family without all their children dying in the next 20 years...
It takes skill and hard work to be this good at wasting money. Most obvious ways to get rid of money would probably be better, including just handing it out randomly.
I want to register a prediction that “AI romantic partners” will never become a big thing. It will continue to be the domain of a small minority of loser idiots. Most humans will continue to prefer human partners indefinitely.
Replying to @EigenGender
> how people spend their time how people who spend their time right before they decide to open twitter
I think writing a PhD thesis on smell is a very good idea and I would be tempted to do the same It would look something like this:
Read these jokes from 1600 years ago and tell me that humans in a few centuries will be so dissimilar from us that we may as well be indifferent between them and AIs
Review of Scott Alexander's book review of "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"

Baby has spent more time at Lighthaven than any other location besides our apartment—on track for an optimal childhood
Meeting extremely high IQ people who hold absurd beliefs and behave very irrationally eventually hammers in the point that "ability to perform useful computation" and "behaves like a coherent, rational goal-directed agent" are different things.