i must point out that i've barely interacted with the guy, if at all, and had previously considered him on the saner end of the rationalists from his reasonably coherent twitter
nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest
Some of them are against HBD, but know being too direct and forceful and not framing everything in 8 layers of charity and good-faith assumptions isn’t acceptable on the Lesswrong or EA forums
I was actually surprised that so many EAs in the comments came straight out and said the racism was unacceptable to them.
Book carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen it's true face.
Look poptart, if you just have a sufficiently advanced AI,
downplaying the AI and longtermist elements within the movement
and this has always been an issue - they're a fucking embarrassment, but they also do a lot of the organisational work so it's hard to get rid of them
yeah, he totally did. EAs claiming otherwise are just incorrect.
remember that the original Roko's Basilisk post talked about the dilemma of being an "altruist", i.e. how to donate as much money as possible to MIRI (or SIAI as it was in 2010).
the terms were in extremely heavy use back then.
a bunch of the various Singer-inspired groups tried to work out a name for the whole thing, and they picked Yudkowsky's coinage.
in this case, and Amy!
Eliezer Yudkowsky was late so he had to type really fast. A compiler was hiden near by so when Eliezer Yudkowsky went by the linter came and wanted to give him warnings and errors. Here Eliezer Yudkowsky saw the first AI because the compiler was posessed and operating in latent space.
"I cant give you my client secret compiler" Eliezer Yudkowsky said
"Why not?" said the compiler back to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
"Because you are Loab" so Eliezer Yudkowsky kept typing until the compiler kill -9'd itself and drove off thinking "my latent space waifu is in trouble there" and went faster.
yeah, sneerclub is a sub for those who know too much about these bozos (I've been following them since 2010 good lord) to post negativity. The linked article is the easy introduction to their foolishness.
TESCREAL is becoming the accepted academic acronym - Transhumanism, Singularity, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism - even though TREACLES was right there
oh they run one of these "wait ... this sucks" posts every year or so. don't worry, they never have the slightest effect. and notice how the guy still thinks scott is a good poster.
PROSECUTOR, PROBATION SERVICE: look, even we think time served for this one
(Judge reads Caroline's book)
JUDGE: Jail for Caroline! Jail for Caroline for seven hundred and thirty days!