@absurdlymax

I did philosophy and a little math, also Effective Altruism (bed nets and animal welfare). Every day things can get a bit better

 NYC Adjacent
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Joined December 2021
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Hello! I really enjoy talking to people and I have been told I am a good listener. If you'd like to talk/chat, or want to rant at someone or vent I am very happy to call or text! Please take this offer up anytime! Hit me up! Further information below:
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Frances Lorenz@frances__lorenzOct 23
To everyone who dm'd me, thank you 🩷 I have been so grateful for the conversations. I still have some dms I need to reply to & am working through my capacity. As a separate project, I am now looking to collect reports of sexual harassment or sexism within AI safety. Details:
Frances Lorenz@frances__lorenzSep 29
Btw, if you work in AI safety & are also happy to chat with women who want career advice/have safety & sexism concerns, lmk! I have a few exceptional friends that I can already route people to. I'd be very happy to help build a network of people, just dm me ✨🩷
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Gemma 🔸@gemlpatersonOct 22
850,000,000 people across 35 countries protected from malaria. The beauty of facing a vast, formless horror haunting humanity and making it measurable, comprehensible, tractable🥹 Their graphics have a brash audacity but it makes my heart sing - Enlightenment Romanticism😍😍
Against Malaria Foundation@AgainstMalariaOct 22
Closing the malaria gap: AMF’s capacity for US$4 to 5 billion of new funding over six years #malaria #charity #FundingGap #impact againstmalaria.com/newsitem.…
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Frances Lorenz@frances__lorenzOct 22
When I talk to long-time effective altruists about sexism in the space, they often express sadness. I'm confused why they're not embarrassed? It seems the hypocrisy is lost on them. The movement spends all day banging on about having a bad rap, misplaced criticisms...
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Cody Fenwick
@codytfenwickOct 22
Still very good news
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I'm thinking of starting a new EA org, if you're a recruiter capable of this please get in touch I'll need your help staffing up my org
@ratlimit
@ratlimitOct 17
I’m a hiring manager and sometimes we find someone we KNOW we’d never hire but put them through 5 rounds of interviews just to humble them
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Peter wildeford (American) explaining model distillation: "imagine a cheeseburger"
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(this is from his EAG talk)
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Some of you
Linwail@LinwailzOct 17
Day 17 - Ra(n)t #beansrattober #rattober2026
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Lowkey crazy but this is the first EAG I'm lodging by myself at since like 2023
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Frances Lorenz@frances__lorenzOct 16
One way to hinder peoples' agency is to pre-determine that men are incapable of complex thought, such as empathizing with foreign experiences or bringing something to a conversation that goes beyond, "I want x, I will get x, & I will treat everyone as an agent in my pursuit of x"
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It's kinda weird how Twitter's community notes system is so good
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Daphne Hansell@DaphneRHansellOct 16
Can I give you 10% of me? By Opus 5.5🧡
Matt Beard
@matt_beard_Oct 6
"Effective altruism is directionally correct, even if you should not follow its recommendations all the way." @tylercowen self-recommending as usual thefp.com/p/in-defense-of-ef…
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They should put an 'I voted' sticker in the mail in ballot
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I read the full new usage policy Anthropic is implementing next month and it seem like actually great
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Genuinely the only thing I remember from Narnia is the ending of the final book where it turns out there's infinite heavens and you can just keep going to find better ones Idk why my parents read this to me as a kid but it clearly did something
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perhaps dean does not know ball
Leah Libresco Sargeant
@LeahLibrescoSep 17
If AI can handle Millennium problems, should we expect Lean-like proofs for moral philosophy? @deanwball of OpenAI explains at the @ISI debate whether he thinks morality is out there to be discovered, by AI (or by us).
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The way some people absolutely hate the idea of the shrimp welfare project is so strange to me Like idk, if you just read about the process of eye ablation I cannot fathom thinking someone is a failure for caring about the creatures we do that to
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I am not saying everyone should donate to SWP or care about shrimp, but I cannot imagine having such disdain for someone just because they want to end clearly abusive farming practices. Idk why compassion has become such a despised thing, it should be laudable to be overly caring
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this is genuinely how some of the rats have started tweeting
kelly erin@kelly_erin_Oct 12
There is a sticky biological reality where girls go to college to get more knowledge and boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider
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Frances Lorenz@frances__lorenzOct 12
Trying to discuss sexism in EA/AI safety online is awesome because one group is like "I think sexual harassment is necessary for impact" and the other is like "what did you expect from the evil eugenicist cult you psycho" and then all the normal people are like 👁️👄👁️
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