# ![@ilex_ulmus Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1458979594183266333.png) @ilex_ulmus Holly ⏸️ Elmore

Holly ⏸️ Elmore posts on X about ai, open ai, money, anthropic the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [finance](/list/finance)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [countries](/list/countries)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  [gaming](/list/gaming)  [musicians](/list/musicians) 

**Social topic influence**
[ai](/topic/ai), [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #2066, [money](/topic/money), [anthropic](/topic/anthropic) #1715, [if you](/topic/if-you), [agi](/topic/agi), [the world](/topic/the-world), [in the](/topic/in-the), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [murder](/topic/murder)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@BrownPenner I am only hearing of them now and I have to know what it was she was supporting (a thing they said vs their whole thing) but I support such as by retweeting a lot of people I think are awful on the whole like TaNehisi Coates if I think they have a valid well-phrased point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1596309711103864834)  2022-11-26T01:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This person who criticized me is pretty deep in rationalism and there was a def vibe of "not only should your feelings not be hurt-- you should like this or else you're a bad thinker w weak character". Even as I was crumpling I resented the flex on me. It's bullying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1613637729232867330)  2023-01-12T20:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@and_furiouser I should clarify I like her a lot. I would just like her more if she did her own thing instead of being entirely about defining girlhood. Then her antics become mockery of me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1661876109280174080)  2023-05-25T23:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Simple fact that often surprises ppl: Your parents have to be related for you to be inbred. Even if both of your parents are highly inbred if they arent related to each other their offspring are outbred"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1664915731295739905)  2023-06-29T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Noahpinion I think they were distinct enough from classical Rome to be viewed as something different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1668481969536270336)  2023-06-13T04:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@quotidiania No inbreeding is just about having two sets of chromosomes w recent common ancestry. The deleterious homozygous recessives can contribute to quantitative traits or single locus traits or both. The chromosomes themselves are not marked by having been in inbred bodies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1674552253229973504)  2023-06-29T23:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dheisman He had a golem but he sacrificed him for +30% critical strike damage (and to free up a spot on the hot bar)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1674614312504270848)  2023-06-30T03:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Simeon_Cps This kind of organizing is (financially) cheap to begin with and right now it's incredibly underleveraged when it comes to AI policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1677967052198526977)  2023-07-09T09:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"GoFundMe is pretty cool actually. They just take a transaction fee from each donation. Tax-wise it's way simpler than grants bc every contribution is a gift. So if you want to help me out so I can organize for slowing/pausing AGI you can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678658866861711362)  2023-07-11T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@albrgr Idk all that height above the waterline makes me nervous. Seems like a stability hazard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678662336826208257)  2023-07-11T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@jeremyphoward I appreciated the article but I'd urge you to consider looking at AGI as something closer to a weapon. It really doesn't matter that AGI could do other things than cause harm if the harms are potentially catastrophic and uncontrollable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678663016420888576)  2023-07-11T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@jeremyphoward You mention that models are iirc "just a set of weights" and I'd urge you to compare that to how nuclear weapons are just atoms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678663162890166272)  2023-07-11T07:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I suppose if this works for me I could let people donate directly to my PayPal but I'm not sure how much fishier that looks to the IRS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678664400423763968)  2023-07-11T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sam_atis Well in my experience men are extremely attracted to success but I'm generally talking about successful men in an intellectual elite. I'm aware some men are not. We agree that some men are and some men aren't attracted to success"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678678254100836353)  2023-07-11T08:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@bat1441 @sam_atis But I have tended to observe this in somewhat elite environments where having a successful mate showed how successful you are. Men I met outside of them would seem intrigued by my success but idk if it was just novelty to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678796774365073408)  2023-07-11T16:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RatOrthodox Yeah I value it nonzero. Not enough to risk killing Earth. Not sure a thriving civilization would be the result of sending our seed to distant galaxies tho 🤷♀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678834380805115904)  2023-07-11T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dheisman Neither did I until the idea of pausing AI came up. Seems like a lot of old transhumanist idealism was dredged up. I sincerely thought most AI Safety was driven by a desire to save this world but it seems that was always bound up in more complicated transhumanist yearnings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678837649270775808)  2023-07-11T19:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dheisman It was clear how the transhumanist AI Safety felt like they had something to prove to the e/acc people too. It was the same way SJ people got to me early on I wanted them to acknowledge that I was *good* according to our shared values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678840382828978207)  2023-07-11T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@VesselOfSpirit If you look at Bostrom/Hanson/Yudkowsky in the early days it's clear what happens to the cosmic endowment was pretty central to their thinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678916143988240384)  2023-07-12T00:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Why do I feel like a fool for taking pictures thru the plane window Remember when those guys paid $250k each and risked their lives to see Titanics wreckage I am flying *above the earth* in full daylight. Arguably much cooler sights just more routine. Picture-worthy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1678926058395955201)  2023-07-12T04:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LdsEa Nobody thinks PETA convinced them but everyone has been affected by their advocacy. They move the Overton window. When you reject PETAs messages you usually still update a bit in their direction but you dont remember you ever thought any different in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1681532865971097604)  2023-07-19T07:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@eshear This man was definitely using soldier mindset but it worked and arguably was needed to move the needle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1681811588582633473)  2023-07-19T23:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@eshear (This is in no way an endorsement of John Brown's tactics on moral grounds. I'm just pointing out they had the desired effect.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1681812539259367424)  2023-07-19T23:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I guess the only real remaining question is how much we want to make race mixing seem like a big deal even a positive big deal by having special words for relationships that arent or at least shouldnt be remarkable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1687739810755260416)  2023-08-05T23:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


""Psychic labor" is an original (or at least independent) coinage and I'm pretty proud of it atm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1688962181529026560)  2023-08-08T17:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Vexed by this idea that an AI Pause is unrealistic but alignment between humans and superintelligence (a state that might not even exist) isnt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1689010988094459904)  2023-08-08T20:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MetaLevelUp I think EA/rat/alignment insiders also feel technical problems are more solvable because they get to be in control to restate your initial statement a bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1689017382214438915)  2023-08-08T20:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Many EA institutions wont fund advocacy to the public to pause AI often bc they work w AI companies in some way and they dont want to jeopardize that influence. How did we get here How can AI companies expect only nice relationships from what should be watchdog orgs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689874898750263297)  2023-08-11T05:42Z [----] followers, 38.5K engagements


"@JacquesThibs Im independent now to pursue advocacy and I hope I can drum up some of this support. I dont know all that much about cultivating donors tho I would love for someone knowledgeable to join me if youre watching"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1689883903228846080)  2023-08-11T06:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JacquesThibs This is what I have so far lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1689884262278045696)  2023-08-11T06:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@1a3orn The White House voluntary agreement included a point about info security referring to keeping model weights from being stolen but it didnt take a stance on voluntarily releasing them. Thats usually how I see it presented few people want to say open sourcing is wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1690061947142832129)  2023-08-11T18:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I have no doubt that there are some people who cant be friends w people they are potentially attracted to and their projection onto others is fascinating. Men seem to say this not to avoid friendship w women but so they have an excuse to expect romance after enough friendship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1690489150674546688)  2023-08-12T22:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MattZeitlin Because of what he learned from his first marriage with the woman that died at the hands of a gangster and/or betrayed him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1690847984311996416)  2023-08-13T22:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A lot of people on the AI capabilities side AND the AI Safety side want to live forever and they see AGI as their ticket to immortality. Importantly this biases them to want AGI to be built ASAP during their lifetimes rather than built safely over decades or centuries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1691248738780819456)  2023-08-15T00:41Z [----] followers, 26.1K engagements


"I shudder to think how much this biases people who are fully aware of the dangers of AI to pursue hasty alignment strategies (Superalignment in [--] years) over moratorium-based strategies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1691249258983477249)  2023-08-15T00:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RokoMijic If you really think immortality can happen without AGI perhaps you should spread that view and decoupling AGI from life extension"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1691277684549308418)  2023-08-15T02:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@davidad @robinhanson @jasoncrawford I don't think merely going slow will automatically make AGI safer. But I also don't care that much about security theater if it's not accompanied by dangerous AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1691510220856733696)  2023-08-15T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Certain diagnoses and types are useful for helping people function and understand themselves and they may prefer the company of people who understand those experiences. But every person is different in some way. Its not that deep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1694200316005384693)  2023-08-23T04:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A guy literally ran after me as I left a nerdy meetup a few months ago to hit on me and one of his lines was You seem neurodivergent. It was basically whats your sign for hippie nerd culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1694201524032041005)  2023-08-23T04:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RatOrthodox Well for one thing theres continuity there chemistry emerged slowly from alchemy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1694260664175595719)  2023-08-23T08:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Johndav51917338 @darth_vasya @ESYudkowsky It has a lot of energy from a lot of C-H bonds similar to fat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1695991099570188747)  2023-08-28T02:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@norabelrose I think most ppl reading your OT would think youre accusing CAIP of being ignorant about relative capabilities (I did) bc regulating llama [--] is not necessary. But now it sounds like youre saying that the spreading of llama [--] is good and it specifically shouldnt be regulated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1696763656493727996)  2023-08-30T05:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@freed_dfilan @EpistemicHope In context I took him to mean your best prediction of what will actually happen by fact and what you might feel motivated to say will happen to show support for your values by values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1697410205192224955)  2023-09-01T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@alistair___s @edelweiss_man I mean you know what your values say about it right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1698467816570020041)  2023-09-03T22:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@alistair___s @edelweiss_man Are you uncomfortable with the idea of individual insects mattering Bc I think they do just in a way thats commensurate with a lot of other concerns. Its often not worth it to avoid harming one insect at a time. Its very worth it to try to make insect farming more humane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1698780458073657716)  2023-09-04T19:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AISafetyMemes @robertwiblin A big concern is that the drive would cross species boundaries :/ If you could just eliminate even just Aedes aegypti it would take a ton of human disease with it and the ecosystem would likely be minimally affected bc it was recently invasive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1698882431145914765)  2023-09-05T02:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Dont mind me just enjoying my old person crystallized intelligence 😎"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1699203925982007417)  2023-09-05T23:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sullyj3 I think ppls attractiveness depends in part on how much you love them or it does for me so it would be hard to truthfully say someone I love is not attractive. Feels reductive to put them on a scale even tho I could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1699602111854715222)  2023-09-07T01:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@KatjaGrace You're so well-respected that I think you probably get different and more constructive criticism. But classic PUA self-esteem-negating maneuvers like "you're not really that pretty" pass as criticism among the young and desperate community members"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1699829753715593496)  2023-09-07T16:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DanHendrycks 😩 Where does this sense of inevitability come from We dont have to build them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700669087385526518)  2023-09-10T00:34Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@captgouda24 When I was there the frats and sororities were really dominant in the social scene. The school is divided between old money legacies w Southern blue blood culture in their veins and ppl on financial aid like me who were very diverse but generally focused on med school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1700740753549627531)  2023-09-10T05:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@captgouda24 I actually dated and married (now divorced) one of the legacies whose whole family went to Vandy so I had that perspective on the culture but I was never part of it at school. Never joined a sorority went to like [--] frat parties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1700741382766563737)  2023-09-10T05:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@robbensinger @DanHendrycks Oh sorry I misread your original tweet. Let me guess is he Buddhist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1700958083458187569)  2023-09-10T19:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Noahpinion @garrytan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1701018742749347890)  2023-09-10T23:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Noahpinion @garrytan Oh huh I had never seen this particular image before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1701019349564444816)  2023-09-10T23:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Come protest Meta's irreversible proliferation of potentially dangerous AI in San Francisco Sept [--] Sign up on facebook: or Google form:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1701700804481343789)  2023-09-12T20:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Seen today on a walk in Berkeley. Pickleball has gotten out of control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1702148869197574169)  2023-09-14T02:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I block e/acc when I see them but from what I've seen they like to gloat that progress is inevitable and revel in a sense of being allied w larger more powerful forces of nature even if it means being replaced. It's kind of sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1702819737649152349)  2023-09-15T23:00Z [----] followers, 11K engagements


"@emeraldslab I get this sense too. They throw around "Luddite" like it's a supreme diss. imo they are really afraid of being the fool who was too small-minded to embrace the glorious future. The founders are washed out lesswrongers and LW (tho overwhelmingly safetyists) has the same issue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1702823914173506014)  2023-09-15T23:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"e/acc thrives on attention and being able to engage on the issue of AI Safety. Everyone who cares about not having tech catastrophes should stop giving their flame oxygen and block them too. Let them move on to some other form of trolling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1703146487264497973)  2023-09-16T20:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Is blocking someone a big deal to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1703165716332253676)  2023-09-16T21:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TiagodeVassal @liron Im talking about normies here but yes its a totally parallel discussion to what separates humans from other animals. Goalposts are on wheels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1703176772274237513)  2023-09-16T22:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NoahTopper @NathanpmYoung @ohwizenedtortle But my favorite VeggieTales song of all is The Pirates Who Dont Do Anything oh actually that is a Silly Song"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1703577836567859431)  2023-09-18T01:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you're in the Bay Area on Sept [--] consider coming by the Meta building in SF (250 Howard St) at 4pm to call on Meta to stop irreversible proliferation of model weights. Metas AIs even current release llama [--] are not safe if anyone can remove the safety measures. 1/n"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1704229113446449418)  2023-09-19T20:20Z [----] followers, 20.2K engagements


"@BlancheMinerva @OntolMQ Whats your evidence that China is training better LLMs itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1704484755637776443)  2023-09-20T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RatOrthodox @ohabryka @lukeprog What about AIs who suspect they are being tested and play the game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1707192976336953486)  2023-09-28T00:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A new height in meal replacement has been achieved Babe whats wrong Youve barely chugged your Eggo Brunch in a Jar Appalachian Sippin Cream https://t.co/rKPDboLqRJ Babe whats wrong Youve barely chugged your Eggo Brunch in a Jar Appalachian Sippin Cream https://t.co/rKPDboLqRJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1708293895589974267)  2023-10-01T01:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@freed_dfilan You can even really appreciate the legacy of Charles Wesley within Anglicanism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1708612057569071486)  2023-10-01T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@FreshMangoLassi I had that baby doll as a kid Her name was Oranges Plair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1708916859972775957)  2023-10-02T18:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Faint praise for Soylent: I go thru these periods of nausea and not wanting to eat and thats where Soylent really comes in clench. It has become inoffensive enough to me that I can make myself drink it and it doesnt make my sick stomach feel too full"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1710020588440584320)  2023-10-05T19:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Everyone on Earth is at risk from dangerous AI thats all the background you need to have an opinion. When you dont understand how powerful new tech will be stopped from killing you and therefore dont trust that it wont kill you thats a good enough reason to oppose it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1710135492526711185)  2023-10-06T03:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im visiting my bro for family weekend at Sewanee (University of the South) which is where our parents met and became Episcopalians. I get it Theres actually good theological discussion in the halls. And its gorgeous. Hyped to see my bro sing in the choir at Sunday service :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711046051832926440)  2023-10-08T15:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"All Saints chapel has saints and clergy and great scholars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711078442186232065)  2023-10-08T17:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@jeethu @martin_casado The issue of open sourcing powerful models in particular is more of sociological and strategic thing than a CS question. You dont need to understand nuclear physics to take a stance on nuclear proliferation either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711196181198442749)  2023-10-09T01:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@martin_casado @jeethu And how do you think Ive overstepped in this case OS isnt some complex CS mechanism its a standard of sharing code that has some infrastructure (licenses repositories) and a culture around it. It gets dangerous w powerful AI. Whats the technical subtlety I dont get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711220137066377286)  2023-10-09T03:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sullyj3 @AISafetyMemes Oh I agree [--] is wrong. Hadnt seen anyone say that but maybe wed disagree what those people were saying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711221275723473135)  2023-10-09T03:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AISafetyMemes Imo more like an internet subculture. Not even a very distinct one. I block it most of the time but I read e/acc threads reacting to the Meta protest and it could have been any manosphere-type discussion. Protesters were weak feminist mid raised in the dark on soy etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711464187602334046)  2023-10-09T19:30Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


"The theme of the service was LBGTQetc acceptance which is pretty ballsy during family weekend at a conservative (in the Episcopal way) Christian school. The first openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson gave the extremely touching address at the Gowning ceremony on Friday as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1711897231933284486)  2023-10-11T00:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@casebash @ProfNoahGian @AISafetyMemes Hinton is on the record against open sourcing LLMs: "As soon as you open source everything people will start doing all sorts of crazy things with it. It would be a very quick way to discover how AI can go wrong.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1711981719279345913)  2023-10-11T05:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@absurdlymax @StefanFSchubert They did have really good coverage of the FTX collapse but it was always accompanied with awful stuff like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1712207847529103495)  2023-10-11T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"72% of Americans want to slow down AI and 63% want regulation to actively prevent superintelligent AI. Join us 10/21 4pm at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco to tell our world leaders at the @AISafetySummit we want to Pause AI NOW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1712595572006519261)  2023-10-12T22:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is part of a global protest event sign up here: US California San Francisco UK Parliament Square London Netherlands Den Haag Israel Jerusalem Australia Melbourne Canada Ottawa (Organized by Align the World) Germany Berlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1712595573394768327)  2023-10-12T22:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Highlight thread for the 9/29/23 protest against sharing LLM weights at Meta--the largest AI Safety Protest yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1713062767853253042)  2023-10-14T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Google translated from Chinese "Open model weights are accused of causing AI to get out of control. Meta was protested with placards. LeCun: The open source AI community is in full swing." https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3HKjsXCHHPQFyN0nYHobqgfbclid=IwAR1LLna1HAL5-rSGCq9M883omxOMoPI3oOivKSll8-yUFGL0TBVezepqziQ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3HKjsXCHHPQFyN0nYHobqgfbclid=IwAR1LLna1HAL5-rSGCq9M883omxOMoPI3oOivKSll8-yUFGL0TBVezepqziQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1713062786102935933)  2023-10-14T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@daatdarling Next cover why the *island* of Sodor in Thomas the Tank Engine has so many train tracks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1713223640849039728)  2023-10-14T16:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Is Ahsoka boring to me because I haven't watched Rebels or. is it just boring I like Heir to the Empire so you would think I would like this too but I just find my mind wandering the entire time I try to watch it. By contrast I *loved* Andor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1713340936967852510)  2023-10-14T23:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Even this argument sounds like a lame excuse-- "oh I see they *have* risk our lives bc if they don't someone else will." How about "it isn't okay for anyone to risk our lives and if they try they should be stopped not gently coaxed in the direction of not killing us""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714000206147272957)  2023-10-16T19:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's time to make our voices heard. Reckless AI research programs led by double-digit p(doom)ers put our lives in jeopardy. We will not accept their gamble. We will not be the generation that erases the future. Join us to : Saturday Oct [--] in SF:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714005037301846329)  2023-10-16T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"How does everyone keep up with Slack I have my [--] Slacks set to email with notifications but I still miss stuff especially threads all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714322444193038765)  2023-10-17T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Here's my dilemma: I don't want to become an org just yet. I like the flexibility to pivot as I learn more and the AI advocacy situation evolves. I like the honesty and simplicity of being funded as an individual. But I would LOVE someone like a cofounder. A project partner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714670958680875136)  2023-10-18T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Enjoy this podcast I am in with @AaronBergman18 And attend the Pause AI protest in your city on Saturday 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714698801406243306)  2023-10-18T17:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Cant make it the PauseAI protests on Saturday but still want to contribute You can donate to help me keep organizing here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1714710481666273426)  2023-10-18T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DonatelloChris @AkashWasil @ElmoTheHomie They both use nuclear material and a power plant could be cover for a weapons program. The question wasnt whether they were fundamentally separable but whether the movement was going to take the word of governments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1715098067983343690)  2023-10-19T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@profoundlyyyy Like what if LeCun had committed a single murder and they posted this about how you can still be friends It wouldnt seem so cute. But were actually talking about a disagreement over the lives of potentially everyone on earth. Feels like not taking the issue to heart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1715809575520325861)  2023-10-21T19:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The PauseAI SF protest was a great success. This was the largest AI Safety protest ever in the United States and it was part of the first and largest global AI Safety protest in history Thank you so much to everyone who made it possible 🩷"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1715954127954751932)  2023-10-22T04:51Z [----] followers, 89.9K engagements


"It really saddens me to see younger generations not seem to think love is worth taking chances or making sacrifices for. And its sad the extent to which they correctly guess that overtures will be rejected with disgust or offense. Love and attraction are good actually. @thechosenberg Are you joking Obviously this man is head over heels. This is way more important than staying in that job. @thechosenberg Are you joking Obviously this man is head over heels. This is way more important than staying in that job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1717271548586078272)  2023-10-25T20:06Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements


"A side note: I both disagree with and personally distrust people who are very scared of misaligned AI taking over the world by itself but not very scared of aligned AI being misused for evil. +1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1717674115245670775)  2023-10-26T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@MatthewJBar If it's someone like Sam Altman that makes me think they believe that *they* will control it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1717677216157577289)  2023-10-26T22:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"holding a protest outside Meta offices in San Francisco this week asking the company to stop distributing the most detailed versions of the Llama model. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-chatbot-is-mark-zuckerbergs-answer-to-chatgpt/ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-chatbot-is-mark-zuckerbergs-answer-to-chatgpt/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1718354445635854565)  2023-10-28T19:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When Im the only girl in a group of guys I call it being Smurfette"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1718791707175571846)  2023-10-30T00:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wow the sex bots really loved what I had to say about my knee injury as a teenager. I wonder if they deliberately try to target men who are in crisis or otherwise vulnerable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1719893113391771908)  2023-11-02T01:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ZeusOfOlympus7 @primalpoly I dont think being potentially interested in sex under different circumstances disqualifies someone from being your friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1721730155822080236)  2023-11-07T03:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NoahTopper @RatOrthodox Wow you just sent me down a rabbithole with that meme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1722065129129533819)  2023-11-08T01:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@GaryMarcus We don't know that the board wanted him back at all. It's all anonymous sources in a few articles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726382317529436367)  2023-11-19T23:29Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements


"I don't know anything that isn't public but I have a strong feeling that this story about the board wanting Sam Altman back is fake. It's all anon sources and it just seems like it's good for Sam's image while making no sense on the board's part"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726434922225979454)  2023-11-20T02:58Z [----] followers, 14.7K engagements


"@s8mb @kartographien @AISafetyMemes Depends on what you mean by "mobilize". I want common knowledge about who's not excited about AGI. I want ppl to be aware of the option of pausing and vote differently or call their politicians about it. I want them to answer accordingly in opinion polls that politicians care abt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726710841616245045)  2023-11-20T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@s8mb @kartographien @AISafetyMemes In general I think it's mistaken to think that ppl have to like a protest or identify w it for it to have the desired impact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726711131912462790)  2023-11-20T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm reading takes that the reputation of AI Safety has been damaged by the OpenAI board firing Altman. but how Bc VCs will lose money I don't get it. Assuming he was fired bc they thought that was safer (we don't know) what has happened that doesn't serve that mission"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726733612085862617)  2023-11-20T22:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Are pl thinking that the OpenAI employees going to Microsoft would be a huge backfire and make safetyists look naive I get ppl who already didn't like safety and really loved Sam Altman as CEO hating AI Safety even more. But why would other ppl see safetyism more negatively"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726734281521979626)  2023-11-20T22:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Blueyatagarasu This in particular I suspect is something rationalist/grey tribe people think and not others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726740277032014025)  2023-11-20T23:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Altimor What are most of these people so worried about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726746978066071887)  2023-11-20T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Altimor For those who don't think ASI could hurt us what is such a big deal about Sam Altman getting fired that they can't sleep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726747246967066870)  2023-11-20T23:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"For those who don't think ASI could hurt us what is such a big deal about Sam Altman getting fired that they can't sleep p.s. I slept beautifully last night Breaking news: The OpenAI drama is real. We checked our data and last night SF saw a spike in low-quality sleep. There was a 27% increase in people getting under [--] hours of sleep. We need to fix this. Source: @eightsleep data Breaking news: The OpenAI drama is real. We checked our data and last night SF saw a spike in low-quality sleep. There was a 27% increase in people getting under [--] hours of sleep. We need to fix this. Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1726751643562336397)  2023-11-20T23:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm curious now how everyone would have reacted if someone had been able to remove SBF from power at FTX *before it was too late to stop the fraud* w/o being able to share why only able to vaguely say they were concerned about his integrity. Might have looked a lot like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1726877807907922206)  2023-11-21T08:18Z [----] followers, 31.2K engagements


"@eschatolocation Idk people think they wish that someone had acted to prevent tragedies but they dont consider how hard it is to make moves *before* something concrete has happened. Consider what it would have looked like and consider if that is distinguishable from the situation with Altman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727008080087642585)  2023-11-21T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@internetgrill Idk maybe its not an accusation that will stick The board was set up this way so that they could dismiss a CEO on bad vibes on purpose. Still seems to be like maybe they did but are unable or unwilling for some reason to make that case publicly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727010770150703463)  2023-11-21T17:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Oppenheimer famously said technology happens because it is possible oft quoted to imply tech progress is inevitable. However this is equally true of all possible things and yet no one ever says: Government regulations happen bc they are possible But they do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727236799821664478)  2023-11-22T08:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@daganshani1 @aziz0nomics I think if he was sincere he would try to bring attention to the issues he thinks are neglected not just complain that millions of different people have behaved in a way he finds inconsistent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727250338414243886)  2023-11-22T08:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BellaRudd1 @ESYudkowsky @ciphergoth Actually Helen Toner of all people has a good paper about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727693272011731284)  2023-11-23T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@frances__lorenz EA helped me get over scrupulosity bc it helped me grok that your energy is finite. Before I was focused on never doing anything wrong. EA helped me to focus on doing the most good I can while understanding that being perfect was not an option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727730299998519617)  2023-11-23T16:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Is there any reason I shouldnt hold it against the OpenAI the employees who signed that letter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727749596267385160)  2023-11-23T18:02Z [----] followers, 25.7K engagements


"@freed_dfilan Well Im wondering if this whole incident and the letter reveals that the company is worse than I thought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727750735591281058)  2023-11-23T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@freed_dfilan I thought OpenAI was dangerous bc it was making AGI but that the co also cared about safety and some employees thought this was the best safety move they could make. But if they cared about safety I feel like they would have trusted the board or have already wanted Altman gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727751725019279753)  2023-11-23T18:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@robbensinger @freed_dfilan I mean my assumption is that knowing no details of Sams conflict with the board the risk of having a more mediocre CEO who doesnt advance AI as much would seem much less bad than ignoring the boards decision to remove Sam as CEO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727761914862731435)  2023-11-23T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ESYudkowsky Are you saying you think its not crazy to believe the content of the letter and sign to reflect that or that its not crazy to sign out of self-interest If its the latter then I kinda think we should hold it against them and make not in their self-interest to go along"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727781247605190740)  2023-11-23T20:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"*hold it against the OpenAI employees who signed the letter Im asking if the employees did something bad by signing that letter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727861687091433784)  2023-11-24T01:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sullyj3 Didnt they buy into OpenAI being a non-profit and how there was this safety mechanism that the board could fire Sam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1727870207144947888)  2023-11-24T02:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CineraVerinia Its really challenging to figure out if student work is wrong sometimes It took me forever to grade creative genetics problem sets bc there are lots of ways to approach the problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1728050976999809357)  2023-11-24T14:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I got too grim last weekend. I didnt do it bc I thought I should I just got really wrapped up. I felt like this scary thing *in particular* shouldnt be happening and I was waiting for it to be over to relax. But you shouldnt set your grim-o-meter to the state of the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1728454601710669843)  2023-11-25T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sometimes ppl act like biology and psychology are just doing a shitty job and need to do better at being sciences bc they find small correlations. But what would it look like if you had a lot of variables and many of them were related to many of the others only a little bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1729928004661580053)  2023-11-29T18:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The culture war problem is like 10% actual points of view and 90% seeking belonging in your tribe. If youre looking for belonging you can just look for belonging w/o it being predicated on worldview match which is terrible for thinking. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435516913643738)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It took me a decade to understand why I suffered so horribly when all my friends became SJ: it meant we werent in the same tribe anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435519690215568)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"But what I was actually mourning was not a time when we had the same model of the world in our heads. It wasnt as shallow as approval or validation either. I was missing *belonging* w them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435522819149953)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"We werent in the same tribe anymore. I wasnt a good person anymore bc I was cast out of the only group that could arbitrate whether I was good *my* group. I was worse than bad I was an outsider now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435525562216633)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And my friends who remained in the lefty tribe were similarly horrified that I would rebel against them and goodness itself. They felt rejected by me bc they no longer belonged w me and my beliefs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435527189696754)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think almost all of us severely underestimate our human need to belong to a tribe. We tend to misattribute our need for belonging to matters of fact or right and wrong. But if you simply notice your need for belonging and respect it you can attend to it more directly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435528896757799)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Were dying to know who we are and where we belong. Were looking for some sign from outside ourselves to tell us. Shared worldview seeing the truth that only you and your group get is often taken as that sign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435532294111712)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Imo your first tribe should be your family but not everyone has that. Imo your second tribe should be a community at least in part irl. But many ppl have only the internet which can allow for great relationships but also makes tribes based on very shallow criteria possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435533808255233)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ideological tribes are the tribes I tend to get drawn into. Im a highly cognitive person. I tend to connect w people over explicit shared values and beliefs and feel most seen and comfortable when surrounded by people who share them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435535313994077)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"(Other tribes have other mediums like shared activities appearance and skills. Some are vertically-inherited identities like ethnicity. People generally belong to multiple tribes defined by multiple domains.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730435536912093547)  2023-12-01T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@raspy_aspie @alwaysfucknlate Im curious why he thought that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730461514803675231)  2023-12-01T05:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ive never heard any man say he likes women who make high-pitched squeaks and yet 2/2 husbands say this is their favorite cute little thing that I do. Did I just happen to find [--] weirdos Or is liking squeaks too obvious to mention Did I teach them to like it Potential trend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730830725375746129)  2023-12-02T06:06Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements


"@E_Aesthete Its so bizarre to me that anyone is not supposed to like it. Ftr I love squeaking and squealing and babytalking I do it to myself as a stim when Im alone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1730847772419788925)  2023-12-02T07:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Pretty surprised by Beff Jezoss real identity. The anon account was so careless and it seems like the real guy has ever done careful work. Physics background makes sense but then also doesnt w e/accs deifying of thermodynamics. Seems more like a fanboy way of looking at it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731093102994301321)  2023-12-02T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@edavidds Oh yeah I forgot people do say Ellen Page. Justin Bieber is new tho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731236838533365808)  2023-12-03T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@drethelin Huh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731238248327123336)  2023-12-03T09:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@haven_emme Excited Itll also make a good Christmas gift I bet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731451881527144691)  2023-12-03T23:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ayegill The answer is that naan bread is not verboten. Anybody who gives you a hard time about it is a snob. If someone native to the naan-making region of the world gives you a hard time about it they are being a jerk and whoever hurt them it was not you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731511327850672256)  2023-12-04T03:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Kinda suspect that most of the things we call spiritual are already misplaced energies. That energy should probably be more integrated with our normal lives and not feel like such a separate realm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1731927900343910684)  2023-12-05T06:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@panickssery Its called a forward capital a phrase I learned in reference to Brasilia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1732293153175359940)  2023-12-06T06:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RomanHauksson I just hope these solutions can come fast enough and get integrated and achieve mainstream acceptance fast enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1732313151918784534)  2023-12-06T08:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dwarkesh_sp @ManifoldMarkets @dwarkesh_sp stick to your guns and dont platform him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1732530255867658547)  2023-12-06T22:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think of those people as the real EA so I'm often quite offended by critiques I later realize are really of CEA and OP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1734331642075099462)  2023-12-11T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My background in EA was mostly as student organizer at Harvard so I was familiar w the EA institutions and interacted w them but most of my time was spent on spreading the basics to lots of people and helping people who were not "core EAs" to make impactful career decisions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1734332839326605423)  2023-12-11T22:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@EpistemicHope @ohabryka @robbensinger Got it (Just ftr resistance was a known side effect of the intervention and has always been monitored and considered so I think it is a bad example of unintended or unforeseen consequences of scaling up. But scaling up does lead to unintended effects valid point.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1734880825735565625)  2023-12-13T10:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@xtremalraven @ESYudkowsky @robbensinger @ylecun Unfortunately I think Buddhist telos is bad and it would be bad if there were machines powerful enough to accomplish it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1735072690531393572)  2023-12-13T23:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"We think of ML engineers as the real "experts" on AI topics but notice how Yann LeCun's case for AI Safety rests on psychological claims (the good guys will beat the bad guys; humans won't choose to deploy AI if it's dangerous). He's *clearly* no expert at psychology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1736887516182311234)  2023-12-18T23:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Guys photos don't mean anything now. How will we know what's real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1737673541271933048)  2023-12-21T03:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@NathanpmYoung I think speaking to someone on condition of anonymity makes that a sacred promise from the listener. I dont see why someone broadcasting something anonymously on the internet makes it everyone elses responsibility to protect their anonymity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1737977866678059273)  2023-12-21T23:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@NathanpmYoung There was no promise made. Maybe that person wouldnt say what they had said if they couldnt be anonymous but when did anyone else agree to that Doesnt seem clear to me that anonymity should be respected its one of several possible equilibria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737979388879093846)  2023-12-21T23:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The Star Wars prequels would have been better if Obi-Wan (instead of Qui-Gonn) actually did think he could train Anakin better than Yoda. Like if he just taught him Jediism illegally in the field when Anakin was a pilot in the Clone Wars as was implied by the original trilogy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1738423379047088529)  2023-12-23T04:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Why do legends and literature like Pet Sematary (iirc it is spelled wrong like that in the novel) feel so sure that resurrection comes at a horrible price Where did they get that intuition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1738448346564727029)  2023-12-23T06:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Im sorry but isnt it obvious that there are both mistakes and genuine conflicts And there are people who theorize about the world as a mix of both mistakes *and* conflicts I see both all around me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1738665131175772479)  2023-12-23T20:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ForCognition Because of scarce resources and zero sum conflicts where both sides cant have the thing they want/need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739036701937348700)  2023-12-24T21:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ForCognition but many people would genuinely prefer not to compromise. They are less happy compromising than they would be fighting to get exactly what they want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739076740838719815)  2023-12-25T00:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@verditude Good rephrase but hilarious to see this referred to as a post-rationalist strength. Your strength as a post-rationalist is to assert that there is no difference between fantasy and reality bc rejecting hypotheses is mean and words dont have clear meanings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1740569095928775058)  2023-12-29T03:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@absurdlymax Ive always wanted to go to McMurdo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740859714848895298)  2023-12-29T22:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"I grew up in a moderate Christian sect (Episcopalian) and everything was a riddle. Gods role and expectations were extremely unclear and that unclarity was fetishized. Contrast that to Islam or Mormonism where God just wants you to have a really great family who worships him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1741200597582516338)  2023-12-30T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mmt_lvt @freed_dfilan I remember when a lot of New Atheists got into Richard Carrier on this and I never really got it. The first section on burden of proof seems to carry all the weight. I think it is most parsimonious to believe there was real person corresponding to the character in the Bible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1741239008775331934)  2023-12-30T23:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I spend time every year in rural Georgia near a Revolutionary War site. The place is so inhospitable today that I always shiver to imagine an 18th c army marching thru the swamp and being eaten alive by mosquitoes and water moccasins. (At least they didnt have fire ants then.)🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1741579824182046801)  2023-12-31T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The Americans lost a canon thats supposedly still underwater near where my family stays and I idk how they moved *any* artillery over that terrain. Its nothing but sucking mud and cypress knees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741579826597908770)  2023-12-31T21:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This is a shitty rhetorical move that I see all the time regarding tech and progress threatening your opponent that hip future ppl will laugh at them. Its not the same as saying youre wrong. Its more like youre lame for seeing things as you do. A decade from now kids will grow up with AI and they'll just use it. They won't even think about it. And if you told them there was once a battle over it they will look at you like you're crazy and wonder what all the fuss was about. 10) A decade from now kids will grow up with AI and they'll just use it. They won't even think about it. And if you told"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1742065766026076208)  2024-01-02T06:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@parafactual @adrusi @nbouscal @RatOrthodox I can do it around my family of origin but otherwise nah it just isnt appropriate. Looks completely crazy and I get ridiculously startled if someone interrupts me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1742248843364966889)  2024-01-02T18:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@helicopterosaur @adrusi @nbouscal @RatOrthodox I have my own office in our place actually. It's more of a psychological need to be by myself. I didn't really feel totally alone when he was upstairs in his own apartment either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742275648947941649)  2024-01-02T20:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The willingness to be poor and the willingness to be alone are so OP. Add the willingness to look dumb and to be ugly and youre unstoppable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743036932731584531)  2024-01-04T22:29Z [----] followers, 35K engagements


"@mmt_lvt Overpowered (video game lingo)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743043500265123868)  2024-01-04T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Im having a high decoupling moment where OT just seems clearly correct but a lot of replies feel judged for being poor or afraid of becoming poor I think The willingness to be poor and the willingness to be alone are so OP. Add the willingness to look dumb and to be ugly and youre unstoppable. The willingness to be poor and the willingness to be alone are so OP. Add the willingness to look dumb and to be ugly and youre unstoppable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743046902030196856)  2024-01-04T23:09Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I was naturally gifted with a high tolerance for being alone and I see how it much it costs other people to be so afraid of being socially outcast. A lot of my bravery comes from knowing Id be okay by myself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743169725532864974)  2024-01-05T07:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It stings me for ppl to think Im not smart but sometimes doing and saying the right thing doesnt impress people. Sometimes you have to stick your neck out and get your head chopped off by reality if youre wrong Needing to be smart really biases my thinking. Embarrassingly so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743172298218311959)  2024-01-05T07:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Kat__Woods Yes. Ive always felt a strong affinity to being female and my sense of what is feminine has always been anchored from within. I was attracted to lots of culturally feminine stuff but I never worried that something I liked was not for girls. I was a girl and I was doing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743182874868896189)  2024-01-05T08:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Faavne They'd get done what they want to get done-- what actually matters to them-- instead of living in fear and spending so much time avoiding the loss of social capital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743357709980926218)  2024-01-05T19:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@catehall Hardware surplus will accumulate during a pause even tho there are drastically fewer consumers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743403035358007555)  2024-01-05T22:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@BellaRudd1 @d_feldman Ugh idk who this person is and assume shes taking about Rufo whom I do not like and that he is misleading people about his credentials by letting people believe he went thru a competitive selection process that he didnt. But the snobbery is so disgusting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743490511242170411)  2024-01-06T04:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The only thing imo that distinguishes a good snob from a bad snob is whether they pursue what they like or turn up their nose (or gag or spit out or sneer) at what they dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743491146880589980)  2024-01-06T04:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@shamhat_gf Its not about disliking things but feeling too good for them and deriving pride or identity from that. I refuse food all the time bc its not vegetarian which I think is picky but not snobby. I wouldnt think someone who hates the taste of asparagus is being a snob about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743496895610458535)  2024-01-06T04:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@shamhat_gf And yeah youre right I think making universal claims about what things are good and high quality is a requirement for snobbery. Other ppl are wrong about what they like and accept and the snob is right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743497886787412111)  2024-01-06T05:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@eshear @primalpoly @sama @OpenAI Try to stop it. Make progress slower using tools like government regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1743541540063175021)  2024-01-06T07:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@freed_dfilan The social work-type research on curiosity (grain of salt) indicates that ppl arent curious unless they understand enough about a system already to notice that they dont understand or to feel invested in learning more. Makes sense to me that kind of curiosity can increase w age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743706359110230029)  2024-01-06T18:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Im gonna go out on a limb here and say actually nothing Miranda is talking about matters. Just bc something has a history doesnt make it important even if it influenced Andys choices. Miranda doesnt know what influenced her choice of toilet paper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743786510485524547)  2024-01-07T00:07Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Tbc I believe chakras were based on a real experience of concentrated emotion in the body. Its the astrology-like typology complete w colors that is fake. Most ppl dont need spiritual training to feel emotions in their heart and sexual desire in the pelvis. @roropsych The whole idea of chakras is related to the energy body with chakras being sensitive nodes. Most people relate to feeling feelings in their chests for example chakras descend from that sort of thing but for seven areas. @roropsych The whole idea of chakras is related to the energy body with chakras being sensitive nodes. Most"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1744121398015201436)  2024-01-07T22:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BootsPlatypus @not_a_hot_girl 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1744466394115449214)  2024-01-08T21:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Not sure Emmett is doing this but in general it drives me up the wall when PauseAI is/I am criticized for politics and tribalism when what the person means is that I am going outside *their* tribe w its positions and ways of thinking and taboos against certain speech. Watching the pause-stop people start using really horrible arguments against AI trying to do tribal activation politics just makes me so sad. Watching the pause-stop people start using really horrible arguments against AI trying to do tribal activation politics just makes me so sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1745115268328849743)  2024-01-10T16:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@kartographien @MetaLevelUp @PauseAI @ai_ctrl @AISafetyMemes A lot of EAs think advocacy is unrealistic and thats their issue w PauseAI. But those people wouldnt say its wrong or insincere to talk about jobs or deepfakes. Many of the ones who work in government want to do things like pursue copyright to regulate AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1745458575290564890)  2024-01-11T14:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@kartographien @MetaLevelUp @PauseAI @ai_ctrl @AISafetyMemes My case for AI Safety advocacy:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1745458922453119078)  2024-01-11T14:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A lot of you arent old enough to remember how during the Bush Jr administration people had to go on at length about how much they supported the troops before they could say anything negative about the Iraq War. This is how I sometimes feel now about progress now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745479297438044617)  2024-01-11T16:14Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements


"@MetaLevelUp @Noahpinion Oh yeah Well then how did it capture our hearts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1745883409866473483)  2024-01-12T19:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AaronBergman18 @daniel_271828 Nah we completely fail the flying part"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1746709350922821673)  2024-01-15T01:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Without googling who was Billy Powell and what were his deeds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ilex_ulmus/status/1748465606972805594)  2024-01-19T22:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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