It is our duty as poors to assist our betters in this endeavour to the best of our ability and get absolutely as many billionaires as possible (a) freezing their heads (b) locking up their wealth so tightly that nobody else can access it

some commenters in those threads are talking about the New York EAs vs the Berkeley EAs - the former are rich liberals, the latter are rationalist cultists. there are several suggestions that EA needs to expel the rationalists.

the furious defenders of racism^Wfreedom of ideas in those threads don't seem to figure out that they're why the non-racist EAs are suggesting that expelling rationalism from EA is even possible

i mean, they should have done so about a decade ago, because they were only and ever a fucking embarrassment

but now they're being a hugely racist embarrassment, not just a nerd-weird one, and it's harder to spin that

i mean, not that liberals aren't all for a bit of systemic racism, but you can't make it personal like that

it's literally these guys. MacAskill, who is splashed on the front page, goes on in his book about how much more important it is to think about 10^54 future computer emulations than mere tawdry actual existing people suffering now.

So you will probably want to look inside the box and look precisely where your donations go, if the organisation you're sending your money to has a public list up.

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this is Lightcone, hosts of the totally not race science convention, falling afoul of the FTX bankruptcy

I’m not quoted in the story, but I did supply a pile of background for it. Authors are Jason Wilson and Ali Winston, who spend a lot of time chasing neo-Nazis for the Guardian US.

original URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism

this is a reblog of the NYT story:

Many current and former employees said Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the Ai Pin’s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration.

https://archive.ph/HcItE

from bsky

unfortunately had to slap my youngest child, hyperion dipshit, in the target parking lot today after he failed to show proper respect to a cybertruck. before you call that abuse, just ask my other children, aryan chlamydia and maximus trifecta what they think

confiscating Adeptus Mechanus's iPad to teach him a lesson about makers and takers

cursed subskeet is what we plan to name our fourth child

they're nazis, bob

I have written about Balaji's amazing brain previously. Wait till you get to the PiTato. He's one of the VCs who was super scared by GPT-3, I think because you could replace his twitter with an LLM and the quality would go up.

also its COMPLETELY WRONG to say that they blew millions in charitable donations on buying a castle. they blew millions in charitable donations on buying two castles

that was by Cody Wilson. A bitcoiner, an ancap, a 3-D gun printer, an alt-righter, the founder of Hatreon and a convicted kiddie fucker walk into a bar. The barman picks up a baseball bat and says “get the fuck out of my bar, Cody.”

Welcome to the abyss! Here's your hazmat suit with a leak! It sucks here!