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Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism, with Amjad Masad

0:00 Intro
1:15 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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