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  • I know it's been said thousands of times before, but as a software developer I've never felt a greater sense of job security than I do right now. The amount of work it's going to take to clean up all this slop is going to be monumental. Unfortunately, that kind of work is also soul-deadening.

  • Last year McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.

    Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it's going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.

  • It's bizarre and pathetic how Scott disabled comments on his blog post but is now using Peter Woit's blog to carry on a debate with all the people horrified by his views.

  • Never heard of Ishida, but he sounds like he's yet another one of those people for whom politics and belief are just "vibes". There's no principle, no rational basis, just vibes. I feel like more and more of the world is becoming this way. Or perhaps it always was this way, but the Internet has just made it more evident.

  • Given how often it shows up in his writings, this incel victim narrative is a linchpin to his personality. He even trots it out in the middle of this genocidal screed -- in what on first glance seems to be an irrelevant detour. But it's really not irrelevant. His self-inflicted psychic damage is painfully real and manifests itself in all sorts of toxic and sociopathic ways, including abject dehumanization of an entire population.

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    In which Scott Aaronson creates the most offensive trolley problem imaginable

  • It immediately made me wonder about his background. He's quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I'd say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.

  • Clown world.

    How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They'll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.

  • You don't hear too many leftists saying things like this:

    I think that the Democratic Party has two factions; they disagree on a ton of important stuff. I think that the neoliberals are right on nearly all of those disagreements, and the progressives are wrong on nearly all of the disagreements.

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    Zack Davis doesn't like NYT's Cade Metz comparison of rationalism to religion

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    Meta AI guidelines allow 'sensual' chats with kids, blatant racism

  • Ozy Brennan tries to explain why "rationalism" spawns so many cults.

    One of the reasons they give is "a dangerous sense of grandiosity".

    the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.

    Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.

  • I'm aware of the cloudflare issue, and I don't use them. So I'm pretty sure it's not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)

  • I noticed starting a couple weeks ago that archive.is is requiring me to complete captchas nearly every time I visit. Are other people experiencing this? If so, I wonder if the site's maintainers are reacting to increased traffic from LLM crawlers. The crawlers probably find Archive extraordinarily useful when they get blocked by source sites.

  • It's reminiscent of the freakout among some of the rationalists when Roko's basilisk first appeared. And they wonder why people keep calling them an apocalyptic cult.

  • It's a really good article. This part stuck out to me:

    If you are seriously, legitimately concerned that an emergent technology is about to exterminate humanity within the next three years, wouldn’t you find yourself compelled to do more than argue with the converted about the particular elements of your end times scenario? Some folks were involved in pushing for SB 1047, but that stalled out; now what? Aren’t you starting an all-out effort to pressure those companies to shut down their operations ASAP? That all these folks are under the same roof for three days, and no one’s being confronted, or being made uncomfortable, or being protested—not even a little bit—is some of the best evidence I’ve seen that all the handwringing over AI Safety and x-risk really is just the sort of amped-up cosplaying its critics accuse it of being.

  • Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.

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    Roko has ideas

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    Nate Soares: "Buy my book or everyone dies'

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    Orange site censoring posts left and right as US descends further into fascism

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    "Tracing Woodgrains" starts a eugenics-oriented education policy "think-tank"

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    Casey Newton drinks the kool-aid

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    Adderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Risk

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    Grimes attends Curtis Yarvin's wedding

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    OK doomer

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    Since age 12, SBF was a dedicated utilitarian, mommy says. It's not fair to imprison him for life.

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    BasedBeffJezos has this girlfriend from Canada, you wouldn't know her

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    Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth

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    Effective Obfuscation

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    Eliezer "8.5% more cheerful about OpenAI going forward" with Mira Murati at the helm

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    Let them Fight: EAs and neoreactionaries go at it

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    Let's walk through the uncanny valley with SBF so we can collapse some wave functions together

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    Generative AI producing racially biased results? Stop worrying about it, say orange site tech bros. It's just reflecting reality.

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