Evinceo @ Evinceo @awful.systems

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I like that instead of a study to back up their project, they have... one guy! Who tried it a month ago!

I lol'd at:

What are they doing with all that money?

¯(ツ)/¯

No way his OpenAI position ends up on his resume.

This is gonna be really helpful next time someone tells me straight up that EA and Rationalist are totally different things and just overlap by coincidence.

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

Getting Gebru in there would be fucking hilarious, I can't believe Wired asked her. Not loving that they're conflating her with EAs though.

If you want to annoy an AI doomer ask why they don't support Gebru.

GitHub doesn't need to take away the GPL, it's got Copilot to launder any code you like.

It is very weird to see a generation of people too young to remember Vista grow up and not heed the warnings. But I think that it's also a case of kids getting into it via Paul Graham and wanting to start companies instead of getting into it via Stallman and having computers instead of friends.

He's lately been giving in to the urges more and more:

Slurs are fine, actually.

Expansion of the 'not provably not correct' eugenics thing into a massive TLDR that I ain't reading

Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:

Couldn't a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they've founded thousands of hospitals and such. They're very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?

Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?

some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.

Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.

For the lab leak theory to work you have to assume not only that some workers at the lab got infected, but also that they spread it all over the city before anybody noticed, such that by the time anyone did notice, they were several degrees of contact from the lab workers.

the viruses themselves would be marked with radioactive isotopes.

Is that true? Once the virus replicated in a cell, the new copies wouldn't be tagged, right?

Aren't windmills traditionally hoisted into the air, whereas whales typically live in an underwater habitat?

I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.

Men will literally devote their lives to becoming scifi Cassandra instead of going to therapy.

End of all value is different from earth go explody. They're fine with earth go explody as long as there's a second, slightly larger earth to replace it with more value.