"We convinced the dumbest people in the country that our made-up problems were real, and now we have a sad because they took us seriously."

Mosaic creator Marc Andreessen

I appreciate this deep cut.

Others in San Francisco are calling it “The Nerd Reich.”

Good one.

The net downvotes are the rest of the community frantically whispering "FFS Roko keep our racism on the down-low!"

"Our critics are mocking us for spending all the mosquito-net money on a castle!"

"It's not a castle, it's a stately home, a manor house."

"That still sounds too posh!"

"OK how about 'detached house'? Just don't mention it has 27 bedrooms..."

You have no faith in the power of AI, typical Blue attitude.

Surprised they didn't just do the agile thing and seek direct financial support from Peter Thiel.

An association designed to stand the test of time - or at least until the stolen crypto money runs out.

remember when Tea Partiers were teabagging?

Internet weirdo to salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners: at least you're all not cucks!

SotEMW: cucks?

IW: you know, like that porn where a white dude watches black dudes fuck his wife!

SotEMW: <racks shotgun slide> get the hell away from my daughter

"It wAs aCtuALLy a lAB LEaK" is such a right-wing shibboleth that it's extra delicious that some wingers[1] put their money where their mouths and were comprehensively disproven. Kudos to the Lesswronger who went through all this, even though a 100K payout made it rATioNaL

[1] I don't have any evidence that Rootclaim are right-wingers but my priors tell me they are

TPOT stands for "this part of twitter" and is apparently a Rationalist splinter group.

From the comments

The average person concerned with existential risk from AGI might assume "safety" means working to reduce the likelihood that we all die. They would be disheartened to learn that many "AI Safety" researchers are instead focused on making sure contemporary LLMs behave appropriately.

"average person" is doing a lot of work here. I suspect the vast amount of truly "average people" are in fact concerned that LLMs will reproduce Nazi swill at an exponential scale more than that they may actually be Robot Hitler.

Turns out if you spend all your time navelgazing and inventing your own terms, the real world will ignore you and use terms people outside your bubble use.