When I click a link to LessWrong from this board, I receive a malware alert from my home gateway (Netgear Armor). Apparently it’s their AI text-to-speech bot....
Thanks. I sent a note with their help bot and they never replied. Just one of those weird things; normally I use the archive link but wanted to see all the cross-dialogue in the comments on the recent drama.
Those photos at them working all over the world in exotic locations, including the FTX condos in the Bahamas… … and still referring to themselves as “charity workers.”
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Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can’t decide, but it’s a depressing read....
LOL. One board member is in the CIA “milieu” because of her college major, another has a husband who played Edward Snowden, and they both “presumably” voted to oust Sam Altman. With that kind of rock-solid fact pattern, you just know the reasoning is going to be airtight.
Thank you very much for this. It left me wondering how closely correlated polyamory is with the EA / TESCREAL scene. Or perhaps Harry Potter fan fiction.
AI doctors will revolutionize medicine! You’ll go to a service hosted in Thailand that can’t take credit cards, and pay in crypto, to get a correct diagnosis. Then another VISA-blocked AI will train you in following a script that will get a human doctor to give you the right diagnosis, without tipping that doctor off that...
I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.
Same here. I think that it also works as a defense of Twitter - reframing the trauma that you experienced by reading Nazi tweets as “learning the wrong thing” from them.
When I see “pica” I think of a typeface, but from context, the author is using a different definition. Do men who want to fight find themselves craving the taste of dirt?
You cannot understand much of modern culture until you’ve recognized that the state’s blunt suppression of the male instinct for glory has caused widespread symptoms of pica that dominate our politics, media, and online interactions.
*pica (usually uncountable, plural picas) (pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand. *
Reply guy EY attempts incredibly convoluted offer to meet him half-way by implying AI body pillows are a vanguard threat that will lead to human extinction... (nitter.net)
… while at the same time not really worth worrying about so we should be concentrating on unnamed alleged mid term risks....
LW malware question
When I click a link to LessWrong from this board, I receive a malware alert from my home gateway (Netgear Armor). Apparently it’s their AI text-to-speech bot....
Nonlinear seem to think this post replying to the accusations about them will make them look like the heroes (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
warning: seriously nasty narcissism at length...
LW: [Request]: Use "Epilogenics" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances - people just don't like the word itself yes that must be it. Coined by Aella. (www.lesswrong.com)
archive archive.is/8NW7e
LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4," (www.lesswrong.com)
archive: archive.is/KdzMM
SSC Reddit having a normal one, OP fantasizing about murdering their child, I guess? (www.reddit.com)
Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can’t decide, but it’s a depressing read....
Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth (www.astralcodexten.com)
They’ve been pumping this bio-hacking startup on the Orange Site ™ for the past few months. Now they’ve got Siskind shilling for them.
"it’s like the stages of a rocket ship and racism was the first stage" (awful.systems)
Image taken from this tweet: twitter.com/softminus/status/1732597516594462840...
Ex-OpenAI board member Tasha McCauley is deep state because she married Joseph Gordon-Levitt (www.lesswrong.com)
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Eliezer "8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward" with Mira Murati at the helm (nitter.net)
Not 7.5% or 8%. 8.5%. Numbers are important.
Serious Yud or Joking Yud? (nitter.net)
AI doctors will revolutionize medicine! You’ll go to a service hosted in Thailand that can’t take credit cards, and pay in crypto, to get a correct diagnosis. Then another VISA-blocked AI will train you in following a script that will get a human doctor to give you the right diagnosis, without tipping that doctor off that...
Cold viruses and bitcoin mining oh noes (nitter.net)
Blood Music was way cooler then this just saying.
18+ our new piece on SBF gets stuck into the rationalists (davidgerard.co.uk)
Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together (hachyderm.io)
Rationalist check-list:...
18+ Box Of Rocks on present day scientific racists, especially Scott Alexander Siskind (medium.com)
archive: archive.ph/rfsUY
Super casual conversation about Eugenics (www.reddit.com)
If learning incorrect things is EY's only definition of trauma, his existence must be eternal torment. (nitter.net)
source nitter link...
a scrawny nerd in a basement writes (www.lesswrong.com)
(whatever the poster looks like and wherever they live, their personality is a scrawny nerd in a basement)
LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (www.lesswrong.com)
you need way too much familiarity with the rationalist subculture to appreciate this one fully, but my goodness this moderation notice (www.lesswrong.com)
Yud goes full seed oil-ist (nitter.net)
The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable? (www.lesswrong.com)
My friend with amnesia remembers the Basilik (www.reddit.com)
This totally true anecdote features a friend who “can’t recall the names of his parents [but] remember[s] the one thing he’d be safer forgetting.”