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JohnBierce @ JohnBierce @awful.systems
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Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars

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  • Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.

    • Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder.

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  • Goddamnit I wish I'd intended that pun

    • Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder.

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  • Yeah, there's absolutely a place for arguments that aren't full-bore "capitalism is evil, forward the revolution!" Some people need to be eased into that space, and articles like this, that show how fundamentally stupid and terrible Musk and company are, are a great way to get people to start asking HOW dingbats like that got power. And it's not the longest journey from there to questioning whether something is wrong with the system itself.

    (There are failure states, of course- namely, reinforcing the neoliberal idea that if you just put better people in charge of a system, it will work better. But that's a question of execution, not of tactical validity.)

    • Meeting IRL with area sneerers?

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  • Somehow, I doubt there's many other sneerers in Hanoi, but you never know...

    • Urbit Assembly Lisboa trip report: paranoid hallucinations, logorrhea

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  • Oh gross

    • Urbit Assembly Lisboa trip report: paranoid hallucinations, logorrhea

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  • As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.

    I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?

    • our new piece on SBF gets stuck into the rationalists

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  • Seldom have I seen anyone who has drunk their own kool-aid deeper than SBF.

    • Dan Olson back at it with another banger. HN responds about as you'd expect.

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  • Oh heck yeah new Dan Olson

    • Croatia shutters a libertarian paradise, orange site readers have a sad

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  • The full book is well worth the read, imho.

    • Croatia shutters a libertarian paradise, orange site readers have a sad

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  • You should check out the book A Libertarian Walks into a Bear for another great example, if you haven't already!

    • Super casual conversation about Eugenics

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  • Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

    • good cyberpunk: Hypnospace Outlaw

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  • Huh a friend of mine recommended this to me recently, I should check it out

    • does anyone use or want the Photon alternative lemmy UI?

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  • I... actually like it a lot, and wouldn't mind switching to it? But also, if I'm the only one who'd be interested, I don't want to be a bother, I can use the current format just fine.

    • The rise of the new tech right

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  • Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.

    • Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

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  • Solid post, already shared this a few times.

    • If you've made it here from the outer reaches, comment and say hi

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  • I'll check it out!

    • a scrawny nerd in a basement writes

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  • ...The vast majority of guys I know who have been in a lot of fights (me included) are quite happy never getting in a fight again? Like, there's definitely a few weirdos and dudes with anger issues who love fighting, but the shine wears off pretty damn quick for most people, and they'd rather avoid the fight in the first place? I really don't think real-life arenas and duels would work the way this guy thinks.

    (I used to work as a bouncer in a bar, haven't been in a fight since then, I prefer keeping it that way. Also, fair notice, I wasn't actually a very good fighter- I was the average-sized, unintimidating bouncer, my job was to head off fights before they happened, so the bigger bouncers and bartenders didn't have to intervene, and I was good at talking drunks down. I wrestled a decent number of drunks when I had to, but that did not an impressive fighter make, I'd suck at Colosseum fights, lol.)

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • This is arcane, eldritch knowledge my mortal brain cannot comprehend.

    My web guy can probably read it just fine, though, thanks for sharing!

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Oh damn that's actually pretty good, I'm sad I didn't get the joke. (Lots of jokes sail over my head. I'm very literal much of the time, hah.)

    I was in the States, so I was more at risk- but I'm a huge science nerd, enough that Yudkowsky's anti-science crap tossed up a BUNCH of red flags for me, and convinced me to start seriously researching the Rationalists and looking for critics.

    Yeah it's interesting to see which of the regulars from Reddit transfer over or not. Took me months, and it was researching for this essay among old Sneerclub posts that inspired the switch.

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Yeah being a full-on support group sounds EXHAUSTING. But we definitely already fulfilled that role to a small extent for a small number of people, especially back on Reddit where this space and rationalist spaces were more porous?

    And I'm all for just cruelty to the eugenicists, neoreactionaries, and other nasties of the Rationalist movement. They have MORE than earned it. Something something Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance something something.