@dwillner.bsky.social
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
@jamellebouie.netReposted by @dwillner.bsky.socialwrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
@ilhanmn.bsky.socialReposted by @dwillner.bsky.socialI’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
@dwillner.bsky.socialOnce you see it, it's *everywhere*.
@beijingpalmer.bsky.socialReposted by @dwillner.bsky.socialrighteous among the nations
@dwillner.bsky.socialI’ve never seen the “no…but also no…also no” meme format with “why are you crying” format and I have to complement you on the truly excellent pairing.
@dwillner.bsky.socialAll of this is spot on
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@dwillner.bsky.socialHonestly, I feel the same way about the Matrix.
@dwillner.bsky.social@masnick.com and I took the time to formalize some thoughts around the unlikelihood of the “sexy apocalypse” as compared to the dumb, disappointing, and far more likely ones.
@dwillner.bsky.socialThis is a great example, imho. "A secret bioweapon escaped" is bad, but also *sort of awesome* in the original sense. "We lost half a decade because someone ate the wrong bat" is (a) not fun and (b) existentially scary because it reminds us of the fragility of our civilization.
@dwillner.bsky.socialHonestly, this still strikes me intuitively as a bit too sexy. I’m thinking more like “it makes someone very rich because it’s good at some things but it still has the common sense of someone who has been kicked in the head by a horse and deletes the banking system for some reason”
@dwillner.bsky.socialIt’s literally because the second thing isn’t sexy and the first thing is.
@rewhan.bsky.socialReposted by @dwillner.bsky.social"Doomsday isn't when the bridge falls down, it's when it stops being put back up."
@dwillner.bsky.socialWeirdly I think the problem is it wasn't bad enough (not to minimize Covid) and so it didn't quite do it for folks. So instead, it just made everyone more escapist and dedicated to their fandoms (whatever they may be).
@dwillner.bsky.socialWe also would need to be significantly better at making paperclips, which I don't think is a current area of heavy investment.
@dwillner.bsky.socialI can't believe I'm saying this, but this is a touch unfair to the truly dedicated preppers, many of whom do take water purification extremely seriously. But your point stands spiritually, because they buy them for themselves, instead of like...voting for higher taxes and more robust government?
@dwillner.bsky.social100% agree - I’ve actually used the flash-crash problem as an example explicitly before as an example of the kind of stupid disaster we should expect.
@dwillner.bsky.socialEven if you accept an implicit scoping to “chicken egg” as the egg in question it still predates the chicken because evolutionarily the first chicken egg was laid by a not-quite-a-chicken.
@dwillner.bsky.socialI think that’s right when you broaden it beyond the AI-ish risk area that I was initially addressing. Others have noted, as I think you’re also hinting at, that it is a somewhat masculine-coded thing (though of course not exclusively so)
@dwillner.bsky.socialYup. People want the bang, and they might even accept the whimper. But social solidarity and emotional labor is icky and no fun.
