David Youssef — LessWrong

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Well I can understand that but I said it earlier which is if you don't have a very specific critique to help me out for the future I would prefer to spend most of our time discussing the actual content of my idea and not moving it into a meta discussion about my writing style. If you have specific suggestions I'll be happy to take them in the future to improve my writing

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David Youssef5mo

The Only Option Left

I'm sorry that I didn't make it more clear but the reason I didn't update is because the information you presented me was stuff I already knew and had factored into my original calculations. That's why I already had a response ready.

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David Youssef5mo

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Oh I am actually speaking to both sides here. I'm also speaking to Republicans who voted for Trump expecting him to make positive changes in all of these areas and they've utterly failed. He has kept zero promises while at the same time raising the national debt and weakening our national security.

Also very honestly the wrecking ball argument has always seemed to me very lazy. It's always easier to break stuff than it is to rebuild it so if you want to be a wrecking ball I need to know what you're going to try to rebuild it with. Right now it looks like the philosophies of Curtis yarvin and project 2025 are the things they're going to try to use to rebuild the country and that's horrifying

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David Youssef5mo

The Only Option Left

Those are fair critiques and I'll admit that I'm not the best writer and that I could have structured this better or maybe tightened up this essay. As far as my ledger I would say that implicit predictions are there and valuable because we all implicitly predict that the sun will rise the next day just because we don't articulate it doesn't mean that prediction isn't real and we don't make decisions based off of it.

And here's the thing we couldn't have predicted the exact issues that would arise but there were lots of people on the left and liberals who did successfully predict that these things and many other parts of... (read more)

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David Youssef5mo

The Only Option Left

Well I plan to come back in 6 months and then a year to see how things are going so thank you for participating and we'll both update them based on what's happening in the world

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David Youssef5mo

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If you are sincere that you really did just want to help me then ask yourself what are the implications of the way you are communicating yourself. Cuz from where I'm standing all it does is distract from the point I'm actually trying to have whereas you could have private message to me about it and then offered some real critiques and then I could have edited it. From where I'm standing it feels like you're just trying to create a red herring and distract from the subject that I'm actually thinking is important. If you think the style of my writing is the most important thing then that should be a separate discussion we have entirely in a separate location

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David Youssef5mo

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I'm pretty sure that even when you look at base rates you find that most violence done to people on the right is done by other people on the right. Obviously it would not be as Extreme as right-wing violence on left-wing targets but the right is so much more inclined to use violence that your base assumptions should always be that he was probably someone on the right and then move from there.

I think that hurts a lot of our feelings but if we're trying to be good rationalist that should be the way we think

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David Youssef5mo

The Only Option Left

Well speaking straight from base rates I would say that you should assume if there's political violence that it is probably someone right leaning. Based on just the numbers it is still more likely for it to be right wing on right-wing violence then left-wing on right-wing violence. So that's where we should all start.

And I want to say that the thing that bothers me is that maybe he really will be proven to be a leftist but if that is the case he is definitely a one-off fringe weirdo but that's not what the public said and when the evidence started to come out that he wasn't part of some leftist... (read more)

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David Youssef5mo

The Only Option Left

What are you talking about? It is not your job to make me a better writer to suit your qualities. If you have genuine specific critiques that I can take to improve my writing I will but this wasn't critiquing me this was just dismissing it entirely.

To put it more clearly what specific advice besides maybe put in a tldr did you give me?

Also I'm not here to discuss my writing style or whether or not you think it meets your standards I'm here to discuss the content of the ideas I posted. If you're so pedantic that the style issues are enough to stop you from reading and engaging with those... (read more)

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David Youssef5mo*

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With all due respect. if that was true you wouldn't have posted at all.

I thought the thesis statement was very clear at the very beginning. We have gotten bad at politics because we've gotten lazy and we've assumed that we were above politics. This allowed us to be tricked and a sizable portion of our community to find themselves having right-wing beliefs and supporting conservative ideas and administrations despite the fact that it is very irrational. Also I find a very weird that you have no interest in reading it but you have enough time to post this? Why not just ignore it and not post anything at all about not reading... (read more)

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The Influence of Cultural Subconscious on AI Language Models: A Comprehensive Analysis of Archetypes and Communication, written with GPT4

David Youssef

The cultural subconscious represents an aggregation of tropes and ideas that humans share within their respective communities (Jung, 1968). These ideas and archetypes have evolved over time, adapting to advancements in communication technology (McLuhan, 1964). This essay explores the role of the cultural subconscious in shaping artificial intelligence (AI) language models, drawing on insights from AI research and psychological perspectives, and discusses the potential impact on their resulting personalities and behaviors.

Premise 1: The Cultural Subconscious and Dreaming - A Neuroscientific Perspective

Jung (1968) posits that the cultural subconscious is a collection of tropes within our minds that are disassembled and randomly reassembled during sleep and dreaming. This process aims to address any pressing... (read 752 more words →)