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....
What is it about Reddit and this specific scenario? I’ve seen people talk about how the brutal truth is that disabled children are bad over and over again. If you challenge this, you’re naive and possibly offensive. It’s one of Reddit’s weird fixations (see also: father’s rights).
Ok I thought this was about euthanasia but I clicked through and he’s basically just advocating for family annihilation??? There’s no way THIS could go wrong, huh??
" Q2: Suicide is not the answer to depression and equivalent ailments!
A2: You should at least be able to accept that sometimes it is the best answer in our imperfect world. Your character in this scenario has come to believe this is one of those times. "
I feel like there might be some other issues with your parenting if this is the case. Chronic depression rarely comes from nowhere.
At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …...
There’s a reason there aren’t any aristocrats living in the shagging things anymore - you need a big staff and a lot of resources to run them! They only made economic sense when there were throngs of peasants to work in them for cheap or free, and people had very different expectations when it came to energy, heating and lighting.
It’s hard to see what OpenAI could have gotten out of this purchase, except the chance to fulfil their Bond villain fantasies.
They bought a second one? This is too much. I suppose Sam Bankman-Fried already proved EAies were terrible at picking investments when he decided to pursue purchasing Nauru (arguably the Most Unfortunate Island In The World) as a bolt-hole in case of apocalypse.
If Bill Gates really wants to reduce the dangers of climate change, he should call up his old company and ask them to pull back from the massively energy-intensive, socially useless AI boondoggle…
Actually back in the 60s I think one of these skull-measuring types came to Ireland. He gave IQ tests to kids and concluded that we were a dysgenic, low-IQ people. So there’s another “data point”
Isn’t this just how every tech company starts out? Google just want to help you find things on the web. Facebook just wants you to help connect with friends. We are very serious people doing serious work for humanity and you need to listen to us, and possibly give us things for free. It’s all about positioning.
The Harry Potter fanfiction bit is eye-watering. Tho’ not as bad as saying he has a “strong sexually sadistic streak”, then still encouraging “shy and underconfident” women to date him. Sorry, I just have to go puke…
Actually the whole thing is sickening. Bad cringe. Evil nerd stuff.
“Put another way, even if one believes abortion is permissible, it likely remains a comparable problem to any problem of infant mortality – but with even more lost life-years, and occurring on a much larger scale than infant mortality”.
Well, it isn’t comparable, because abortion prevents forced birth, and forced birth is a form of torture. As indeed is being forced to care for a child in poverty.
“Other responses to Thomson highlight various other disanalogies between pregnancy and the violinist situation: In most cases of abortion, the woman is responsible for both the child’s neediness and their intimate biological relationship with the woman – unlike the violinist case. Other responses to Thomson highlight various other disanalogies between pregnancy and the violinist situation: In most cases of abortion, the woman is responsible for both the child’s neediness and their intimate biological relationship with the woman – unlike the violinist case.”
Bit of a bold statement, and likely untrue. It is impossible for a woman to know even when having unprotected sex if it will result in a pregnancy. Contraceptive technologies fail. And what about the responsibility of the father? It takes two.
“n the case of abortion, the woman is the mother of the child[6] – unlike the violinist case.[7]”
Ok, this is meaningless.
“The violinist is in an unnatural situation and being hooked up to the stranger is an unnatural position – by contrast, the fetus is exactly where she is supposed to be in her ‘natural habitat’.”
Not in my womb, it isn’t, motherfucker!
Quite a lot of pregnancies end early in miscarriage.
“6)deaths from abortion are a function of infrastructure, not law: pro-life countries/regions with good healthcare (e.g. Chile, Poland, Malta, South Korea (until recently), Ireland (until recently), North Africa, UAE, and almost all of Europe pre-legalisation) have very few, in many cases zero, deaths from abortion .”
Despite our good (?) healthcare, there was a high-profile death due to lack of abortion access in Ireland: Savita Halappanavar. And that’s despite the fact that from 1996 (?) to 2018 abortion was legally permitted to “protect the life of the mother”, if a panel of doctors agreed her life was in danger. In addition to Savita’s death there was a case in which a raped, pregnant teenager became suicidal, but because doctors did not agree she should have an abortion, she was committed and put on suicide watch. How’s that for harm? Women who travelled abroad for abortions also experienced significant medical and psychological harm as a result: consider the case of A, B and C vs. Ireland.
The only acceptable response. My body, my life, my right to decide. No surprise that someone in the “women are dumb” cult doesn’t understand that women have bodily autonomy, and even thinks that “mother” is “someone who has no bodily autonomy”.
He says like “well actually having access to abortion doesn’t make women happier” , as if abortion isn’t pretty essential to the happiness of SOME women. But he thinks if women are forced to have babies they’ll realize that they really like it actually, because he’s a wretched dog.
Yeah the studies he cites are all over the place. One about how single motherhood isn’t fun, which would seem like an argument for abortion, not against? It’s just the aul “contraception causes pregnancy” argument catholic pro-lifers used to lose.
Ah just like the prolife campaigner I argued with recently who said that in his* ideal world, abortion, contraception, and the morning-after pill would all be illegal. Apparently having an abortion is “irresponsible” because you’re acting as if it’s “someone else’s problem”. That really threw me for a loop. I mean, it’s not like you can get someone else to have the abortion for you! He justified a contraception ban along the same lines - that people needed to accept the consequences of having sex, or something. I suggested to him that contraception was actually very effective at preventing abortions, and he frowned as if he couldn’t understand what I was saying.
*Yes, he was a cis man who has never been pregnant or made anyone else pregnant. Sure, what else would you expect?
There are many horrible examples from 20th century Ireland - as well as stillbirths or accidental deaths. Several are mentioned in the “Letters to Ann” radio documentary, based on correspondence received by a popular Irish radio programme in the early 80s.
I think there have been large scale longitudinal studies in the US that recorded a drop in infanticide in states with legal abortion - of course this boyo doesn’t mention any studies like that, even to criticize them. because this is a plain ol’ anti-abortion polemic, not a literature review - all the sources and statistics are there for purely cosmetic purposes.
I’m really sorry. During 2018 Irish feminists were really looking to Poland, there was even an Irish “Strike for Repeal” modelled on the Polish women’s strike. Horrific stories are leaking out from America too. I really think Irish abortion activists need to do more to show solidarity with countries where abortion is threatened or banned.
Tradcathery has the fascist hallmark of being an obviously modern/modernist ideology that claims to be an ancient religious tradition. Tradcathery as we know it today is very online. EA is also very online, and increasingly sour about social liberalism. Match made in hell.
eurgh. I think a lot of them probably delude themselves that they aren’t just posting. but they are just posting. they’re christians the way QAnon followers are political activists.
Is this the “flying saucer fails to land” moment for him? AIs (large language models, ai-generated images, etc etc) are now within the experience or understanding of more and more people, and he can’t just make stuff up about it anymore?
I would be reluctant to go to an irl sneer club. I do like the idea of some sort of “sneer-in” to inform local activist organizations and politically active people about these groups and their cursed ideology.
That famous shtetl “feminists attack nerds :((( because they’re easy targets >:((” is worse in context . The blog post was about how Harvard were wrong to take down videos of physics lectures by a sexual harrasser they just sacked, because they were really good physics lectures you guys. And there were all these appalling comments that Scott didn’t give any pushback to - instead, he lit into the one woman in the comments section. for suggesting that nerds commit sexual offences.
A sleazy, woman-harassing psychiatrist who gives out dodgy prescriptions is the real face of EA. Just all the negative stereotypes associated with the 60s counterculture/New Left, with none of the redeeming features.
LessWrong and EA can help people to understand logical fallacies, but they can’t help people to actually understand their emotions. In fact, the culture around them encourages adherents to feel contempt for their “irrational” emotions and for people who are led by emotion.
Of course it is extremely unpleasant to repress all your emotions, and it is ultimately impossible to do so all the time. How did the LessWrong community solve this problem? Its users limited their emotional expression to acceptable forms and acceptable targets, and expressed their emotions through cult accepted techniques like taking drugs, having sex, cyberbullying leftists and writing really long blogposts.
Like most subcultures, it’s the powerful and respected people in EA who determine the dominant norms. With pretty much every leading EAist a middle-class dominant-culture American man who works in tech and wishes feminists would quit whining, it should be no surprise that the norms they created are stereotypically, nay, toxically white and masculine.
I used to read fanfiction, and by the standards of Harry Potter fanfiction, it’s not even good fanfiction.
(insert “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” joke here)
Maybe it’s just a matter of taste, but I couldn’t get through more than a chapter. I wonder if most of the audience for it were people who didn’t normally read fanfiction. Actually, I just looked it up on fanlore to see what fandom people have said about it, and the reviews are mixed…
Lots of gold in there. Apparently Eliezer was bullied by a Harry Potter fan forum, to the point that some of the users set up a blog called “Methods of Rationality sucks”.
Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of “Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence”. Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to...
Unfortunately, I don’t think so. One of the hosts of this show did make a blogpost about this episode with links to other interviews and podcast eps with McQuillan.
"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions." (blog.samaltman.com)
From Sam Altman’s blog, pre-OpenAI
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....
Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? (www.forbes.com)
At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” …...
loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
we had the misfortune of having to write up Sam Altman's adventures with the real Paperclip Maximiser (amycastor.com)
rationalist reaches the libertarian conclusion about child marriage (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
saw this pointed out here and felt it deserved it’s own post...
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - get me off this ride it's too dumb (www.theverge.com)
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.
the effectively altruistic AI's fans are gonna pipe bomb a Planned Parenthood (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Yud offers more weight loss discourse (nitter.net)
18+ Meeting IRL with area sneerers?
Hi all....
Rationalist saturated prediction market site Manifold has launched a dating app. "Even @aella_girl has signed up 😎💖" (nitter.net)
18+ our new piece on SBF gets stuck into the rationalists (davidgerard.co.uk)
Urbit Assembly Lisboa is gonna be a hoot (assembly.urbit.org)
The Future of Sovereign AI...
Spotted this ad in an old copy of Smash Hits. Possible tagline for this server? (awful.systems)
According to wikipedia, Runaway received “mixed reviews”.
Eliezer complements Musk, Musk negs Eliezer (nitter.net)
Some light sneerclub content in these dark times....
Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together (hachyderm.io)
Rationalist check-list:...
Rationalist literary criticism by SBF, found on the birdsite (awful.systems)
original is here, but you aren’t missing any context, that’s the twit....
Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI | Yeah Nah Pasaran! On 3CR (www.3cr.org.au)
Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of “Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence”. Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to...