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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.
a lesswrong: 47-minute read extolling the ambition and insights of Christopher Langan’s “CTMU”...
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
The one promised in this post several months ago....
I’m doing it so skillfully. I’m totally basilisking you. isn’t that scary
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Is uh, anyone else watching? This dude (chaos) was/is friends with Brent Dill.
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....
For your utter delight and mine....
read.easypeasymethod.org...
original post detailing mistreatment of employees...
This is a slightly emotional response off the back of a discussion with a heavily TESCREAList family member recently. Which concluded with his belief there are a very small number of humans with incredible information processing abilities that know the real truth about humanity’s future. He knows I hate Yudkowsky, I know he...
Consider muscles....
First, let me say that what broke me from the herd at lesswrong was specifically the calls for AI pauses. That somehow ‘rationalists’ are so certain advanced AI will kill everyone in the future (pDoom = 100%!) that they need to commit any violent act needed to stop AI from being developed....
Bit of a rant but I genuinely hate decision theory. At first it seemed like a useful tool to make the best long term decisions for economics and such then LessWrong, EA, GPI, FHI, MIRI and co needed to take what was essentially a tool and turn it into the biggest philosophical disaster since Rand. I’m thinking about moral...
Been waiting to come back to the steeple of the sneer for a while. Its good to be back. I just really need to sneer, this ones been building for a long time....
There were five posts on r/sneerclub about our very good friends at Leverage Research and many interesting URLs linking off them....
this was last year when Aella was trying to do a survey of trans people for one of her darling little twitter poll writeups. I felt it was necessary to warn people off this shockingly awful person. Perhaps you will find it useful....
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Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.