porque no les dos?
Forget Quillete, he's a supporter of ESR???
I believe you meant to write "delicious"
Just the other day, a bunch of cryo tanks holding scientific specimens in a research hospital in Sweden failed and destroyed 30 years worth of data.
The EA/LW community loves to think from first principles, and that is usually one of its finest traits. I notice and respect the times their first-principles thinking leads them to be correct about things broader society is incorrect about—a regular occurrence.
[citation fucking needed]
I follow drama and blow-ups in a lot of different subcultures. It's my job.
Wait, you can get paid for this???
Whelp, looks like the wild-eyed non-profit AGI doomers were overruled by the Lords of Capital, as foretold. If this is the key to the robot god being created and enslaving us all, it is no more than fitting. Marx was wrong: the end stage of capitalism is a paperclip maximizer.
The miracle of decentralization!
I'm reading the Zvi piece (https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite), which is quite entertaining , but once in a while you stub your toe over the fact that the author is a True Believer
Putting the $500 million into Anthropic was arguably the most important decision Sam ever made. I do not know if investing in Anthropic was a good or bad move for the chances of everyone not dying, but chances are this was either a massively good or massively bad investment. It dwarfs in impact the rest of his EA activities combined.
And the fact that SBF's observation that only $6.5B was spent on political campaigns was ludicrously low is blithely accepted as reasonable, not as an observation that campaign finance is broken.
"Dryden Brown" is the sort of villain name a strike-breaking LLM script generator would come up with.
That thread is gold. Specially love this one where heroin is dismissed because it's not utilitarian enough
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
I'm torn on this too, I think Torres et consortes are dignifying these idiots way too much by highlighting their views and in some ways taking them seriosuly. It's an inadvertent form of critihype. Wholesale ridicule is the order of the day! On the other hand, before the Scientology papers reveal (god that was so long ago) the CoS was seen as weird but legitimate. When more and more people discovered Xenu, the Sea Org, and how people could be designated "unpersons", the view slwoly shifted.
I guess both serious criticism and pointing and laughing are needed.