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We can forward as a secondary hypothesis that this seems reasonable to Yudkowsky because it is, broadly speaking, his fetish.

Rich and powerful people read and watch the exact same slop everyone else does.

The Universal Dividend Act: Policy Rationale Summary The Universal Dividend Act establishes a monthly per capita payment to every citizen and national of the United States, funded as a fixed and escalating percentage of federal outlays.

The Argument in Brief Sandberg, Drexler, and Ord (2018) showed that the Fermi paradox dissolves once we take our uncertainty about the Drake equation's parameters seriously: the silence of the cosmos is unsurprising given what we actually know.

Five days later, let us add two things.

'Respect' means many things, not one or two or three.

On one notable occasion there was a group that went semicultish whose rallying cry was “Rationality!

Almost never.

So, Scott Alexander sent an email to someone in 2014.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut Ah, the kids, they don't yearn for the mines any more, they yearn for the slurs!