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AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast
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What SB 53, California’s new AI law, does
DanielFilan19d93

You can always be more incentivized to do or avoid things! (no comment on this specific example)

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AI Safety Field Growth Analysis 2025
DanielFilan20d92

Based on my recollections of being around in 2015, your number from then seems too high to me (I would have guessed there were at most 30 people doing what I would have thought of as AI x-risk research back then). Can I get a sense of who you're counting?

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Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming
DanielFilan20d120

Answer from the abstract of the paper Kat linked in a parallel comment:

Most (73%) of the worldwide hunter-gatherer societies derived >50% (> or =56-65% of energy) of their subsistence from animal foods, whereas only 14% of these societies derived >50% (> or =56-65% of energy) of their subsistence from gathered plant foods.

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Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming
DanielFilan20d53

In particular, vegans/vegetarians are more likely to be left-wing, and left-wing people in the US have higher rates of mental illness.

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Introducing SB53.info
DanielFilan26d30

Thanks for making this! For what it's worth, it looks like 22757.12(d) requires developers to be somewhat transparent about risks from internal deployment, which seems quite interesting to me and I'm surprised didn't make the summary.

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DanielFilan2mo50

I wonder if "discourse in such a way that your interlocutor, if they decided to adopt good faith, could easily deal with you (or otherwise leave)" gets you the benefits of "assume good faith" without the drawbacks of asking you to sometimes assume false stuff?

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Somebody invented a better bookmark
DanielFilan2mo30

How do these hold up in backpacks / luggage bags? I'm worried they'd catch on stuff and tear pages more than other bookmarks (that can be pushed totally into the book).

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Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)
DanielFilan2mo90

And if the stakes are even higher, you can ultimately try to get me fired from this job. The exact social process for who can fire me is not as clear to me as I would like, but you can convince Eliezer to give head-moderatorship to someone else, or convince the board of Lightcone Infrastructure to replace me as CEO, if you really desperately want LessWrong to be different than it is.

I don't plan on doing this, but who is on the board of Lightcone Infrastructure? This doesn't seem to be on your website.

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Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)
DanielFilan2mo*52

Like, I guess I have never heard the term "civil justice" used instead, and I don't know of a better term that clearly spans both

Just realized I never responded to this - I would just use the term "civil law" (as I did). For a term that covers both, "the legal system" perhaps, altho it's a bit too broad, and you're right that there's not a great option.

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Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)
DanielFilan2mo20

I can't comment on how things work in Germany, since they have a very different structure of law (that my guess is English-language terms are not well-designed for), but:

I agree one could maybe make some argument that it's not "criminal justice" until you "commit a crime by violating a civil court order"

This is what I think - in particular, the "criminal justice system" is the system that involves dealing with crimes, and the "civil law system" is the system that involves dealing with civil wrongs. You're correct that they relate, but there are enough distinctions (who brings cases, proof standards, typical punishments, source of the laws) that I think it makes sense to distinguish them. I further think that most people with enough context to know the difference between civil and criminal law would not guess that a similarly informed person would use the term "criminal justice system" to cover civil law.

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11AXRP Episode 46 - Tom Davidson on AI-enabled Coups
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31AXRP Episode 45 - Samuel Albanie on DeepMind’s AGI Safety Approach
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12AXRP Episode 43 - David Lindner on Myopic Optimization with Non-myopic Approval
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13AXRP Episode 38.8 - David Duvenaud on Sabotage Evaluations and the Post-AGI Future
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