Yes. Just last bigger project was an eye-opener for me. All of a sudden, I can't even trust basic info provided, because so many don't even check what they have sent to me. If you understand the underpinnings, you are a lot more useful than 'prompt engineer' ( quotations intended ).
> A purity spiral is a theory which argues for the existence of a form of groupthink in which it becomes more beneficial to hold certain views than to not hold them, and more extreme views are rewarded while expressing doubt, nuance, or moderation is punished (a process sometimes called "moral outbidding").[1] It is argued that this feedback loop leads to members competing to demonstrate the zealotry or purity of their views.[2][3]
Certainly something they're aware of - the same concept was discussed as early as in 2007 on Less Wrong under the name "evaporative cooling of group beliefs"
Eliezer Yudkowsky, shows little interest in running one. He has consistently been distant from and uninvolved in rationalist community-building efforts, from Benton House (the first rationalist group house) to today’s Lightcone Infrastructure (which hosts LessWrong, an online forum, and Lighthaven, a conference center). He surrounds himself with people who disagree with him, discourages social isolation.
Ummm, EY literally has a semi-permanent office in Lighthouse (at least until recently) and routinely blocks people on Twitter as a matter of course.
Blocking people on Twitter doesn't necessarily imply intolerance of people who disagree with you. People often block for different reasons than disagreement.
Kinda weird that an article arguing that we will get a financial crisis from defaults on credit / loans for data centers...doesn't say how much loans to data centers there are...
Of the $100bn capex from the Mag7, I would bet less than 10% is debt financed.
Of the 1% of GDP ($300bn), you are probably talking about less than $50bn.
Then he lists around $10 TRILLION of other debt, of which $1t+ is private credit.
He may have identified the right pipe (private lending) but wrong location...
Love it when people write a 2k word article on the death of the dollar and spend approximately 0 words outlining a viable alternative, either as the gobal reserve or US domestic currrency.
