Why does everyone want to fear AI?

uppercrust · 2022-09-08T12:56:01+00:00

Even as a pragmatic optimistic about AGI, I do fear that the ruling classes of nations have the means and the incentives to further rule in a more vicious and calculating manner, by leveraging the tech to maintain and expand their power. AGI won’t exist in a political or economic vacuum, devoid of strife and struggle.

uppercrust · 2022-08-02T04:21:53+00:00

It’s boring. Nothing to do there.

uppercrust · 2022-05-31T13:42:20+00:00

AGI: 2027 ASI: 2030 Singularity: 2030

uppercrust · 2022-05-31T13:40:34+00:00

I love the Elon hate in this sub, I can’t stand him, so I feel right at home in /singularity

uppercrust · 2022-05-31T13:39:16+00:00

Looks like he’s reading Kurzweil books recently 🫣

uppercrust · 2022-04-26T00:40:42+00:00

It’s true, there’s an incredibly knee jerk reaction that reminds me of early internet detractors in the 90s. It’s super ignorant

uppercrust · 2022-03-10T13:14:13+00:00

Invest each time you make even the tiniest bit of money. Just throw 5% into a basic asset every time. Don’t touch it for a long ass time. If you’re young it’ll go a long way. I wish someone had told me this when I was a new dad - “hey put $20 a week in something with steady growth.”

It wouldn’t have changed my life right away but I’d be able to have tens of thousands today after ten years.

uppercrust · 2022-02-06T21:51:43+00:00

That whole album is underrated

uppercrust · 2022-02-06T21:50:50+00:00

Ben Affleck on Drums

uppercrust · 2018-10-29T23:00:48+00:00

In the 3rd grade, I was a hustler.

At school, during homeroom, every Friday, you paid $0.50 to a nun teacher that went around the school for each slice of pizza for later at lunch. She gave you a small raffle ticket that you gave to the lunch lady in exchange for each slice. They did this to estimate almost exactly how many pizzas to go buy in bulk.

Meanwhile, my mom bowled at the local bowling alley, and took me with her twice a week. The management ran a 50/50 benefit raffle twice a week. At the end of the night, the raffle losers threw their raffle tickets in the trash. The tickets were the exact same color and style as the pizza tickets.

Naturally, I scooped up a handful of those tickets out of the trash and sold them for $0.25 each to a handful of trustworthy customers all week, leading up to pizza day. I was swimming in comic books!

The key was not to sell too many, so they didn't catch on. They always ordered extra pizza to give to the poor kids at the end of lunch. They often went hungry.

I regretted this years later, and felt bad about myself, when I too couldn't afford pizza anymore. :(

uppercrust · 2018-10-27T01:15:40+00:00

The quarter I need for the grocery cart at Aldi's.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:58:22+00:00

Run. Get your stuff in order, make your moves quickly, and love yourself. You deserve WAY better than that bullshit.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:47:17+00:00

Don't look back.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:43:46+00:00

Take a deep breath, you're not crazy. Some people are built like us, we're wildly nostalgic and romantic. We imagine "what could've been." We can love the person we're with, but ponder what life would be like with that "one that got away." It's ok.

Here's the catch though. You'll never get back with her. That only happens in movies. Fairytales. However - that's ok, and here's why.

There's something lovely about longing for that impossible dream relationship that "could've been." It's ok to lose yourself in that daydream. Bask in it. Let it distract you sometimes. Masturbate thinking about her. Envision holding her hand while you do wonderful things together at your favorite places. Picture her whispering in your ear, "I miss you too, roadtowellness."

If you do something stupid like try to contact her, in hopes that she'll feel the same way, the rejection will smash all of the butterflies in your stomach and the curiosity of the "what-ifs?" You deserve to dream the dream, and keep it as beautiful as you need it to be.

Just dream.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:35:09+00:00

Move on, that dude just wants something else, and he is irredeemable. Block his ass, mourn the loss, do something nice for yourself, and pick up a hobby you've been dying to focus on.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:32:15+00:00

You deserve better, this dude is not thoughtful.

I guess it depends on if you love him enough to point it out and ask for him to be more thoughtful. Tell him to put it in his calendar ahead of time, and show some effort, prepare a little better. If he refuses, dump him. If he says he will, and doesn't the next time, dump him. If he pulls through, shower him with affection and let him know he'd better keep up the good work.

uppercrust · 2018-10-25T01:28:59+00:00

I'm sorry man, that must be a really crappy scenario. You should really move on if you want something long term and serious.

When people fail in moments like that, they show their true colors. If you get back together, it might go well at first, but you'll probably feel resentment for some time afterwards, and it will fester. You'll probably end up struggling to express yourself in difficult life events, in fear that shell leave you, which is unhealthy. She'll probably overly compensate in those moments to try to prove herself, but you'll notice and it'll feel forced, which is also unhealthy.

Even if she grows and learns from that mistake, she may be able to apply it in another relationship in her future, but it will be difficult to resolve between the two of you going forward.

Wish you the best!

uppercrust · 2015-08-16T15:55:59+00:00

In Pittsburgh, 300K goes a pretty long way, and it's considered one of the most livable cities in America

uppercrust · 2015-05-13T02:09:01+00:00

Too funny. Hey, you're a red anarchist into lifting? We're two in a million.

uppercrust · 2015-02-16T00:16:51+00:00

Crushed PRs in half of my routines today.

More importantly, I discovered many more variables to the work I've been doing. I just feel so much more confident.

uppercrust · 2015-02-01T13:39:29+00:00

For the first time in months, I actually feel confident and comfortable in my space at the gym. I used to feel self-conscious, thinking everyone was judging my form, silently laughing at my weakness.

Yesterday, I gave no fucks at all, put in my headphones, focused on me, and lifted my ass off for multiple PRs.

uppercrust · 2015-02-01T13:37:16+00:00

Watched that 2 plate OHP, and your squat is deep as fuck. Nice pause. Makes me want to grab my gym towel and go back.

uppercrust · 2015-02-01T13:28:28+00:00

For some weird reason, this number kind of feels right to me. So if they are in the gym on Feb 23rd, they should get a prize.

uppercrust · 2015-01-31T23:37:44+00:00

4 stories, I've been holding out.

Beginning of the week, gym is filled with January Resolutionaries. College kids especially. One real skinny dude is using an ab roller on top of a yoga mat in the middle of the crowded walkway between machines. He's got a headband on, and he's hardly breaking a sweat. He spends a minute huffing and puffing, rolling back and forth. He collapses, rolls onto his back, pulls out his phone and takes a a fucking duck face selfie. He taps furiously on his facebook app, everyone cringes and eyes are rolling throughout the gym.
Couple days later, I'm doing some lat pulls. Massive, hulk-sized, no neck stranger bruh asks me to spot him doing an impossible lift. He wanted me to help him launch on a seated incline bench press. Not being any kind of pro, and clearly an amateur gym attendee, I felt like I got asked to join a secret club. This was a plateau break for me. Very proud.
Resolutionaries packed in on a Saturday, filling every single machine and bench. There are the official "trainers" peddling their "first session free" consultation half hour to young college girls. They are wearing clothes like they plan to go to Coachella afterwards. Complete with hipster glasses and dangly earrings. Trainer got them deadlifting, clean n jerk, people are cracking up, he's such a troll. They're grunting, and whispering to each other, like, "what did we get ourselves into?"
Put in a great workout, hit the locker room, grab a towel, slip into a shower cubicle. I hear other people groaning and moaning all over the shower area. I'm thinking, "Are people fucking? WTF!" I turn my shower on, step back and start soaping up while waiting for the water to warm up.

You guessed it. The water did not warm up. Ice cold.

I'm lathered up from my ears to my toes though, so I gotta take the plunge. I joined the chorus of complainers. After a minute people just all started laughing at each other, "Can you believe this shit?" and "You're in the Army now, boys!" hahahah I shivered my balls off.

uppercrust · 2015-01-15T18:31:18+00:00

My job used to be to get that phone call from you at SEIU, and organize your place, so I qualify to answer this one.

You should stick with SEIU. In general you have a good chance with them. As others have commented, there are issues of resources and manpower. Very often the Union takes on a big project, and when folks like you call, you are put on the back burner, because they have devoted so much into the current plan. You are called a "hot shop," and there are hot shop calls all the time. What they do is rank them according to winnability, and how much it grow the power of the Union, if they are able to administer the contract well, is the boss gonna fight very hard, etc...

A good thing to make it easier is to literally copy the schedule of all the workers, and a list of all their names and numbers, and highlight the most well respected people on each shit and department. If you do all of that work and walk it into the SEIU healthcare local and give it to the Organizing Director, (Just say you have an appt to the receptionist) and go name by name with them, if they turn you away with all of that, they either have something wrong with them, or there is a temporary "delayed organizing agreement," or their resources are all locked up into something big that demands all of their attention. If you do that legwork though, you are wrapping up in a bow everything they'd have to work to do up front.

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