We speak with Amjad Masad about disenfranchised men, intellectual movements, problems with effective altruism and AI doomerism.(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?
(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?
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