Chuck Schumer
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Chuck Schumer is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 03, 2023 and January 18, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “But I just can’t take seriously the idea of Joe Biden / Kamala Harris / Chuck Schumer ordering goons to rough someone”; “Joe Biden / Kamala Harris / Chuck Schumer ordering goons to rough someone up”; “Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the CEO of MIRI his p(doom) in a Senate hearing”. It most often appears alongside Joe Biden, Trump, Chechnya.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 03, 2023
- Last seen: January 18, 2024
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- Joe Biden (3 shared issues)
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- Trump (3 shared issues)
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- Chechnya (2 shared issues)
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- CIA (2 shared issues)
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- FBI (2 shared issues)
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- FSB (2 shared issues)
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- Gessen (2 shared issues)
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- Kamala Harris (2 shared issues)
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- KGB (2 shared issues)
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- Masha Gessen (2 shared issues)
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- MOSCOW (2 shared issues)
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- Pussy Riot (2 shared issues)
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So could it happen here? Probably not. The closest US equivalents are the FBI and CIA. Right now they seem more aligned with the Democratic side of the aisle, so Trump or some future Trump would have a hard time winning their total loyalty. As for the Democrats, I think it’s against their ideological DNA to do Mafia-style killings. I’m not being some misty-eyed optimist here. I absolutely believe there are factions among the Democrats who would love to restrict free speech, pack the Supreme Court, divert Congressional powers to the executive branch, and lots of other creepy authoritarian things. But I just can’t take seriously the idea of Joe Biden / Kamala Harris / Chuck Schumer ordering goons to rough someone up3.
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> But I just can’t take seriously the idea of Joe Biden / Kamala Harris / Chuck Schumer ordering goons to rough someone up.
41: In December, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the CEO of MIRI his p(doom) in a Senate hearing. I know most of you are just random blog enjoyers and this seems like a pretty normal fact - of course an organization on AI risk would get invited to a hearing on AI risk. But I remember back in 2010 when only a tiny handful of people thought any of this would ever be anything other than science fiction, people treated MIRI as a laughingstock, and for years the consensus was that nobody with any credibility or power or even a PhD would ever give them the time of day. I still don’t know how any of this will turn out, but I’m proud of everyone who’s stuck with it this long, and I hope you all find this as hilarious as I do.