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yes scott we know you are

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The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires

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New Rolling Stone piece from Alex Morris, focusing heavily on our very good friends and the tech billionaires they're buddies with.

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Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped

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"TheFutureIsDesigned" bluechecks thusly:

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Eliezer uses the tragic death of someone to smugly (and falsely) further his rhetoric

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jesus this is gross man

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Steven Pinker in race-science podcast shocker

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Jim Miller puts the cart FAR before the horse

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This is unironically the most interesting accidental showcase of their psyche I've seen 😭 all the comments saying this is a convincing sim argument when half of the points for it are not points

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A narcissist and a schizophrenic walk into a bar

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Mfw my doomsday ai cult attracts ai cultists of a flavor I don't like

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lol the shit, who picked these actors

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https://xcancel.com/netflix/status/1928153876475097117

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DOGE: the big brain LessWrong Rationalist boys

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by College Hill

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Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.

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An excerpt has surfaced from the AI2027 podcast with siskind and the ex AI researcher, where the dear doctor makes the case for how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.

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Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial?

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Death and the Gorgon - Greg Egan

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Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

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Moldy calls the DOGE kids an "orchestra of chimpanzees," implying Elon is too stupid to implement the "neo-reactionary dream"

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Yarvin’s DOGE disillusionment is somewhat surreal, almost as if Marx had lived long enough to troll the Bolsheviks for misreading “Das Kapital.”

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Kathy Forth made a facebook post about miricult.com the day before her death

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Just for the record, I'm not suicidal.

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Sneerquence classics: Eliezer on GOFAI (half serious half sneering effort post)

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I found a neat essay discussing the history of Doug Lenat, Eurisko, and cyc here. The essay is pretty cool, Doug Lenat made one of the largest and most systematic efforts to make Good Old Fashioned Symbolic AI reach AGI through sheer volume and detail of expert system entries. It didn't work (obviously), but what's interesting (especially in contrast to LLMs), is that Doug made his business, Cycorp actually profitable and actually produce useful products in the form of custom built expert systems to various customers over the decades with a steady level of employees and effort spent (as opposed to LLM companies sucking up massive VC capital to generate crappy products that will probably go bust).

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shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of *plagiarism* goodness me

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archive: https://archive.ph/2Gk9F

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The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - new Emile Torres

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"Human Biodiversity" on LessWrong

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China and AGI: A New Yellow Peril and Red Scare

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So, lesswrong Yudkowskian orthodoxy is that any AGI without "alignment" will bootstrap to omnipotence, destroy all mankind, blah, blah, etc. However, there has been the large splinter heresy of accelerationists that want AGI as soon as possible and aren't worried about this at all (we still make fun of them because what they want would result in some cyberpunk dystopian shit in the process of trying to reach it). However, even the accelerationist don't want Chinese AGI, because insert standard sinophobic rhetoric about how they hate freedom and democracy or have world conquering ambitions or they simply lack the creativity, technical ability, or background knowledge (i.e. lesswrong screeds on alignment) to create an aligned AGI.

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Is Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!

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I am still subscribed to slatestarcodex on reddit, and this piece of garbage popped up on my feed. I didn't actually read the whole thing, but basically the author correctly realizes Trump is ruining everything in the process of getting at "DEI" and "wokism", but instead of accepting the blame that rightfully falls on Scott Alexander and the author, deflects and blames the "left" elitists. (I put left in quote marks because the author apparently thinks establishment democrats are actually leftist, I fucking wish).

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Effective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)

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Might unilateral billionaire funding skew priorities?

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Moldbug has a sad

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Apparently DOGE isn’t killing enough people (literally or metaphorically)

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How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrBjeAtJUk - video

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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]

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A nice and solid mockery of just how badly e/accs derailed their own plans by getting Trump elected. I'll let the subtitle(?) speak for itself:

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Scoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upset

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Came across this fuckin disaster on Ye Olde LinkedIn by 'Caroline Jeanmaire at AI Governance at The Future Society'

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How to explain our very good friends to normal humans?

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Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

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LessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonus

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yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

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EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement

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Moldy's famous now! yaaaaaay

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Renowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanfic

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it's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"

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archive: https://archive.is/kM5hX

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"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge]

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A solid piece on AI and ethics (and the general lack of them), featuring a nice sideswipe at our very good friends.

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Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestors

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While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

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Tom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts now

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broken containment warning

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some of the sub’s friends are holding a conference although they’re still not totally comfortable to go public:

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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.

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tweet

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Ziz update thread, started 19 February

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the old one is three weeks old, let's start another

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"Tracing Woodgrains" starts a eugenics-oriented education policy "think-tank"

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Sneerclubbers may recall a recent encounter with "Tracing Woodgrains", née Jack Despain Zhou, the rationalist-infatuated former producer and researcher for "Blocked and Reported", a podcast featuring prominent transphobes Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog.

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Killings across three states shine spotlight on cultlike ‘Zizian’ group

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that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum

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the comments are a delight also

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Slate on the pronatalists: For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple!

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Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur

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so i stumbled upon a thing on reddit

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Popular anonymous race scientist "Crémieux Receuil" is actually a graduate student named Jordan Lasker

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Post your current Ziz news and discussion here

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a place for it

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Aella's timeline on the current Zizian issue (warning: she sure does love her deadnames)

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this is very self-serving ass covering from the rationalist sphere

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a short story of the robot rebellion. We had it coming.

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Dress for the job

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Article (archive link): https://archive.is/WZjn9

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did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the *distant* past

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How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

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I regret to inform you that AI safety institutes are still on their bull shit

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One of my old friends from academia shared this article (to be fair he shares everything b.c. he's of a certain generation) and ofc sirens are immediately going off in my head w/ this click baity ass title. This AI "safety" institute is the usual profile, 20 kids out in Berkley drawing scary monsters on the wall and frightening themselves. Despite insisting "we didn't do anything bro, it just went rogue" a little digging on my end I find the actual system prompt they gave the model- (posted below)

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Devin, the "$2 Billion AI software engineer" turns out to be a complete scam. Who could have thunk!

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Lightcone needs your funding for LessWrong! because they had to give the FTX money back

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Funding beg: (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser The story: Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back

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Rationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus all

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This is worth delurking for.

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Casey Newton drinks the kool-aid

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In a recent Hard Fork (Hard Hork?) episode, Casey Newton and Kevin Roose described attending the recent "The Curve" conference -- a conference in Berkeley organized and attended mostly by our very best friends. When asked about the most memorable session he attended at this conference, Casey said:

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Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once

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oh no! anyway,

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Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)

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amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast

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Son! Are you in there building God from neural networks?

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TPOT hits the big time!

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The dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever saw

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In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselves

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Abstracted abstract:

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Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a *real* e/acc"

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https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1866223174029095113#m https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1866241512293781930#m

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The Professor Assigns Their Own Book — But Now With a Tech Bubble in the Middle Step

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The UCLA news office boasts, "Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system".

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2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategy

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PDF

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That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audience

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Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?

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featuring nobody's favourite e/acc bro, BasedBeffJezos

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LessWrong House Style (2023)

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https://nonesense.substack.com/p/lesswrong-house-style

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In which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater good

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From the author of "EAs should probably focus on recruiting the ultra-wealthy"

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Elizabeth Sandifer: Wednesday

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New article from reflective altruism guy starring Scott Alexander and the Biodiversity Brigade

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Would've been way better if the author didn't feel the need to occasionally hand it to siskind for what amounts to keeping the mask on, even while he notes several instances where scotty openly discusses how maintaining a respectable facade is integral to his agenda of infecting polite society with neoreactionary fuckery.

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[podcast] If Books Could Kill - Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/7E2onI8R3wdnxAS0p1O9j8?si=sgR1E44lRTGOY17mUikUFQ

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your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted

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archive: https://archive.ph/wRpVA

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JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react

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I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

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what happened next with Max Tegmark and the Swedish neo-Nazis

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archive: https://archive.is/ux5pL

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The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviews

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