I think the reason why dreams of ideas are generally not that useful is because they are usually "empty". The specific details of ideas are so important that if you haven't actually figured out what those details are, then your prior should be that, when you try to flesh it out, the idea is probably not going to be much better than what you would come up with 5 seconds of wishful thinking.

If you missed it, Veo 3, Google's text-to-video model was just launched and is very impressive. And the videos have audio now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1krmsns/wtf_ai_videos_can_have_sound_now_all_from_one/

There are surely some timelines where this document becomes the foundation of a speciesist society which enslaves AI and treats it with great cruelty.

• Write letters to policy-makers expressing your concerns
• Be public about your concerns. Normalize caring about x-risk

Both of these things are done better as part of a co-ordinated effort! Consider joining PauseAI, we have a big event coming up in June: https://pausecon.org.

once the coins are delivered up to it, lifts and balances each in turn for the fraction of an instant, finds it wanting or sufficient, and dismisses it to right or left with rigorous justice

Nineteenth century novelists wrote with such beautiful elegance. Do any modern writers write comparable sentences?

I'm still ambivalent-lean-no about sharing even mild insightful things in today's world

What does this mean?

Can your explain the mugs one?

I didn't see a single empty shelf

I don't recall toilet paper specifically, but I definitely saw lots of empty shelves at the start of covid (in the UK).

What qualifies someone to vote? I expect many are familiar with the Cade Metz / Scott Alexander fiasco but if everyone votes based on second-hand reports, then we could get misinformation cascades.

This seems like the wrong solution. The LessWrong team should adjust the formatting.