[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

This commenter may be saying something we already knew, but it's nice to have the confirmation that Anthropic is chock full of EAs:

(I work at Anthropic, though I don't claim any particular insight into the views of the cofounders. For my part I'll say that I identify as an EA, know many other employees who do, get enormous amounts of value from the EA community, and think Anthropic is vastly more EA-flavored than almost any other large company, though it is vastly less EA-flavored than, like, actual EA orgs. I think the quotes in the paragraph of the Wired article give a pretty misleading picture of Anthropic when taken in isolation and I wouldn't personally have said them, but I think "a journalist goes through your public statements looking for the most damning or hypocritical things you've ever said out of context" is an incredibly tricky situation to come out of looking good and many of the comments here seem a bit uncharitable given that.)

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Lots of discussion on the orange site post about this today.

(I mentioned this in the other sneerclub thread on the topic but reposted it here since this seems to be the more active discussion zone for the topic.)

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

But will my insurance cover a visit to Dr. Spicy Autocomplete?

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

I haven't read Scott's comment sections in a long time, so I don't know if they're all this bad, but that one is a total dumpster fire. It's a hive of Trump stans, anti-woke circle-jerkers, scientific racists, and self-proclaimed Motte posters. It certainly reveals the present demographic and political profile of his audience.

Scott has always tried to hide his reactionary beliefs, but I've noticed he's letting the mask slip a bit more lately.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

It's absolutely bizarre that Scott labels Rufo a journalist. Rufo is a right-wing activist who has only ever worked for right-wing think tanks. He first came to my attention as a part of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based "think tank" best known for promoting creationism.

Then again, Scott has previously said that he's impressed by the arguments of creationist Michael Behe, another Discovery Institute lackey.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Glowfic feels like a writing format designed in a lab to be the perfect channel for Eliezer's literary diarrhea.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Exactly. It would be easier to take Scott's argument more seriously if it wasn't coming from the very same person who previously labeled as unstable and thereby non-credible a woman who accused his rationalist buddies of sexual harrassment -- a woman who, by the way, went on to die by suicide.

So fuck him and his contrived rationalizations.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

All factual and counter-factual statements are evidence for my position. Heads I win, tails you lose.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

"Fucking probabilities, how do they work?"

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

My attention span is not what it used to be, and I couldn't force myself to get to the end of this. A summary or TLDR (on the part of the original author) would have been helpful.

What is it with rationalists and their inability to write with concision? Is there a gene for bloviation that also predisposes them to the cult? Or are they all just mimicking Yud's irritating style?

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Is it wrong to hope they manage to realize one of these libertarian paradise fantasies? I'd really love to see how quickly it devolves into a Mad Max Thunderdome situation.

[-] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

What's it like to be so good at PR?

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