oh no the amazingly useful discussion has been shut down by ... examining its premises! Truly a disgrace to online discourse.
ah yes, sports. Where everything is fair and equal, and certain individuals don't have obscene genetic advantages over others.
I spent a while reading this post, he has to be trolling right?
do I also detect a hint of "failed to be a engineer/scientist but desperately still wants to appear like one"?
Did you ... stop reading?
The real die-hards don’t think it’s a scheme to create a permanent Democratic majority; they think it’s a plot to ethnically replace white Americans. At its core, the great replacement is about demographics, not democracy.
The article doesn't try to rebut this because of the staggering number of premises you need to accept before you can even reach such a conclusion. It's really not worth unpacking here.
You'll notice I didn't disagree with the verdict. I just think Kyle is scum and a murderer even if that's not under the technical legal definitions.
I don’t feel that trying to stop property damage for a family friend’s establishment in the middle of a riot, where police refused to stop people, is a pattern of behavior I want to discourage people from doing.
Really? Letting children be judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to property damage is something your'e totally okay with? I think you have a little bit of growing up to do, buddy.
Dude, if you have a degree in econ I think your uni should lose its accreditation. I am dead serious.
Are you this annoying in person? I feel bad for people around you.
hey, you banned me from r/badphil for arguing that LLMs don't have feelings. I probably was being an ass but the username/sub combo in your message triggered the memory.
I have nothing interesting to say about the article, but I got a kick out of what orange site thinks:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221178
Why does someone who writes great sci-fi suddenly have social capital to weigh in on industry and politics, two things firmly outside of his wheelhouse?
How absolutely dare someone comment about the perceived impact of their work?
but at what point did our hatred of capitalists (note: I don't hate capitalists) decide to overshadow our, you know, lifelong lust for the stars?
* pauses sentence to perform a quick act of fellatio *
Every time I read a technologist's screed against Musk or Bezos or Zuckerberg (three people whose combined lifetime works do not even scratch a fraction of the economic value incinerated by the US military in 40 weeks) all I can see is sour grapes and ad hominem.
Maybe take off your Musk-sperm-tinted glasses then?
These people did not create nor perpetuate the attributes of the dystopia you claim to reside in (that was the CIA). (It's also not actually a dystopia, or anything resembling one; ask any of the two billion people lifted out of dirt poverty (largely due to technology!) in the last three decades.)
No no no, it wasn't a system of misaligned incentives and lack of accounting of negative externalities that has created the dystopic world we live in today, it was the CIA! Wait, it's not actually a dystopia!
The old planet will go to hell in its own way from its own inhabitants. I'd rather live in space where it's safer. (Also, how cool would it be to escape before Earth is finally fully conquered? This would mean that humans as a species successfully avoid a total hierarchy.)
[The forces that are destroying the planet]
[The people trying to get to space]
They're the same picture.
Just noticed this sticky. I'm here because nowhere else do people shit on Yudkowsky enough. Fuck that hack with a chainsaw, metaphorically of course.