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Feb. 26, 2023

E10: Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism, with Amjad Masad

E10: Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism, with Amjad Masad
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2:15 Replika caused Amjad to downgrade his view of humanity

3:15 Some men are down bad

5:15 Should we bring back monogamy?

8:15 If you’re not a top man, you’re screwed (phew)

13:00 Thought experiment

16:40 Antonio brings up Israel again (drink!)

18:15 “You don’t know what life is until you birth a child and bury a parent”

19:15 Unintended policy side effects

25:25 How to solve population crisis

27:45 WTF happened in 1971?

29:15 High and low time preference

35:15 Dating app preferences

39:00 Group narcissism

41:25 Groups that inbreed focus more on kinship

45:15 AI doomerism

50:45 from New Atheism to SJ to EA to AI Safety

1:00:15 Antonio calls out Eliezer Yudkowski

1:00:45 Criticizing Utilitarianism/Effective Altruism

1:10:15 Jesus vs Nietzsche

1:10:45 Bronze Age Pervert

1:13:15 Antonio recommends converting to Judaism

1:14:30 Why is EA so popular in Silicon Valley?

1:18:10 Why are EA just normie liberals

1:19:00 EA’s importance

1:24:15 The right way to think about alignment

1:27:15 Robert Conquest’s second law

1:30:15 Entryism

1:33:45 is right wing EA a thing?