Pelosi
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Pelosi is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 25, 2021 and October 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “maybe Biden and Pelosi are the greatest political geniuses of their generation”; “Pelosi’s statement, where the former Speaker said that Li is “viewed as California’s top AI academic and researcher”. It most often appears alongside Politico, San Francisco, 80,000 Hours.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 25, 2021
- Last seen: October 10, 2024
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- Politico (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- @GroundHogStrat (1 shared issues)
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- A.I. salons (1 shared issues)
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- Adam McKay (1 shared issues)
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- ADUs (1 shared issues)
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- al-Qaeda (1 shared issues)
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- Aleksandar Vucic (1 shared issues)
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- Alphabet (1 shared issues)
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- Andreessen Horowitz (1 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I console myself with the idea that the Democrats have some kind of grand strategy to both make everyone hate them as much as possible, and also push policies that will accomplish exactly the opposite of all their goals. Then Republicans will capture all branches of government with large majorities, and build lots of solar panels in order to own the libs. Also promote race-blind hiring, build lots of housing to fight homelessness, repeal SALT deductions, regulate Big Business, pull out of foreign wars, heck, why not legalize marijuana? Viewed this way, maybe Biden and Pelosi are the greatest political geniuses of their generation!
Inline links: legalize marijuana
The list of opponents included some tech investors, AI trade groups, and Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy’s involvement was the biggest surprise. The boring explanation is that she represents San Francisco and has a lot of tech investor friends and donors, but you can get more conspiratorial. For example, Pelosi (current net worth $240 million) is known to get impossibly good investing returns, so much so that there are ETFs that try to replicate her stock picks; everyone assumes she must be doing some kind of scummy-but-legal insider trading. Her portfolio is currently weighted towards AI - did that influence her decision? Even more conspiratorial, insiders say Pelosi is waging a “shadow campaign” against Scott Wiener, the only San Francisco politician popular enough to challenge her daughter and hand-picked successor Christine Pelosi for SF’s House seat after she retires. Is she trying to deny Wiener a victory?
Inline links: impossibly good investing returns, ETFs that try to replicate her stock picks, weighted towards AI, a “shadow campaign” against Scott Wiener
[Opponents of SB 1047] had a big assist from “godmother of AI” and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, who published an op-ed in Fortune falsely claiming that SB 1047’s “kill switch” would effectively destroy the open-source AI community. Li’s op-ed was prominently cited in the congressional letter and Pelosi’s statement, where the former Speaker said that Li is “viewed as California’s top AI academic and researcher and one of the top AI thinkers globally.”