another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)
Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies...
Enforced positivity policy at Humane (arstechnica.com)
Apparently a senior SW engineer got fired for questioning readiness of the product, dude must still be chuckling to himself....
the loons are at it again (righttowarn.ai)
this time in open letter format! that’ll sure do it!...
lmao it finally happened
Someone I was following on TikTok, whose takes on tech industry bullshit and specifically AI hype I respected, made a video that Roko’s basilisk is a serious concern. My apologies to those who have been in this same situation when I was less sympathetic.
The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI (www.gamesradar.com)
Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)
Scott Alexander shares conspiracy theory that COVID didn't happen (www.astralcodexten.com)
In his original post he said:...
America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.
Maybe the real unaligned super intelligence were the corporations we made along the way 🥺 (awful.systems)
The Future of Humanity versus Company Bottom Line (www.businessinsider.com)
Reimagining AI | Planet Critical (youtube.com)
A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.
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)
the effectively altruistic AI's fans are gonna pipe bomb a Planned Parenthood (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
my god. last traces of Koanic Soul found online. (theo16.rssing.com)
Koanic Soul was a website on the virtues of craniomentry that was popular in early-2010s neoreactionary discourse. It told of how modern humanity is a mix of Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal and Melonhead. Each has different intellects and personality types. And you can tell by just looking at them....
Inside Wytham Abbey, the £15 Million Castle Effective Altruism Must Sell - Effective Ventures is giving $26.8m in stolen money back to FTX creditors, so they gotta sell their not-a-castle (www.bloomberg.com)
archive archive.ph/L9p4V
hey, look what just got added on RightMove today (www.rightmove.co.uk)
You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like (nitter.net)
Let’s build a tower of nonsense on top of numbers we vibe with and pulled out of our ass
definitely time we started charging this person rent (www.lesswrong.com)
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
The article doesn’t mention SSC directly, but I think it’s pretty obvious where this guy is getting his ideas
Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it’s not a CASTLE it’s a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,
testosterone and IQ: from the LessWrong School of Taking 4chan Memes and Just Running With Them (www.lesswrong.com)
dude has another banger today too, again from the bitter 4chan incel memepool but in bigger words: www.lesswrong.com/posts/…/lukehmiles-s-shortform#…
Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department (awful.systems)
I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking (www.lesswrong.com)
oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one (www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)
