Dave Orr

Dec 25, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Dave Orr |Mateusz Bagiński |Vojta Kovarik

Given how fast AI is advancing and all the uncertainty associated with that (unemployment, potential international conflict, x-risk, etc.), do you think it's a good idea to have a baby now? What factors would you take into account (e.g. age)? Today I saw a tweet by Eliezer Yudkowski that made me think about this:"When was the last human being born who'd ever grow into being employable at intellectual labor? 2016?

Mar 1, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Dave Orr |Thomas Kehrenberg |Richard Korzekwa

When you look up the color temperature of daylight, most sources will say 6500K, but if you buy an LED with that color temperature, it will not look like the sun in the sky. It will seem bluer (or, less yellow-y). Yet, 6500K is arguably the correct number. What is going on? The answer is Rayleigh scattering. What we perceive as sun rays on the Earth’s surface has traveled through a lot of atmosphere, whereby a lot of the blue light has been scattered away, such that the sun rays look a bit yellowish.