Radical Futurist
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Joined September 2015
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Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
Someone check if Peter Thiel is ok
The guy that owns the 140 characters app just launched a flying car
Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
They really just got on stage and said this newly designed 4000+ pound car can do flips and go half the speed of sound (380+mph) and will ship in 2028. This is a prank, right?
Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
Counter argument: Not only is taste subjective, it's a moving target. As soon as [tasteful thing] becomes easily replicable, it stops being tasteful.
Taste is a status game with a strong defensibility mechanism. That's why the term is so fuzzy and ill-defined. Vagueness is the whole point. It's meant to be hard to copy.
Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
“What’s your p(doom)?”
“Idk, maybe 5%”
“1 in 20 chance of extinction. So you support pausing AI?”
“Ofc not. That would raise it to 30%”
“What?”
“A global pause doesn’t stop people. It just pushes it underground, into secrecy and paranoia, with worse talent and fewer resources. Way riskier.”
“Fine, but what if we actually stopped AI forever?”
“100%”
Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
Hello computer.
Decompile and distill Grand Theft Auto.
Make the game set in my hometown -- use Google Earth to reconstruct it in pixel-perfect detail.
Make the character me and have my spawn point be in the mansion I always look at on Zillow.
Review my chat memory and make every mission about my hopes and dreams.
Make it playable online so my friends can join.
When you're done, sell all my video games on Ebay and use that money to fund tokens for my next game.
Will Stark - e/acc retweeted
Superintelligence will mean the end of social mobility. Instead of your being able to rise based on your talent and labor, those with the most capital will simply outcompete you by buying more compute. It will mark the end of any sort of meritocracy, and the dawn of a new feudalism.