Only Bayes Can Judge Me
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Only Bayes Can Judge Me
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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....
"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote (www.lesswrong.com)
I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don’t think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.
"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
this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes. (www.lesswrong.com)
Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!...
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
Existential Comics on rationalism and parmesan (existentialcomics.com)
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.
18+ Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology" (titotal.substack.com)
This is my article on one of the dumbest and most obviously false claims Yudkowsky has ever made, about biology not using covalent bonds.
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.” …...
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI (archive.is)
Most of the article is well-trodden ground if you’ve been following OpenAI at all, but I thought this part was noteworthy:...
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
non-paywall archived version here: archive.is/ztech
loving the EA forum on how the problem with spending the charity money on a castle was the public relations (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
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.
18+ My deep dive into yudkowsky's "diamondoid bacteria" claims and drexler-style nanotech in general (titotal.substack.com)
…substack.com/…/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-dead…...
18+ Friends Don’t Let Friends Learn Probability from Yudkowsky | Science After Sunclipse (www.sunclipse.org)
For convenience, I gathered a few comments of mine into a blog post.
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)