Declaring that an AI is malevolent because you asked it for a string of numbers and it returned 420
an oppositional culture
[enraged goose meme] "Oppositional to what, motherfucker? Oppositional to what?!"
Ian Millhiser's reports on Supreme Court cases have been consistently good (unlike the Supreme Court itself). But Vox reporting on anything touching TESCREAL seems pretty much captured.
AOC:
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
The MIRI, CFAR, EA triumvirate promised not just that you could be the hero of your own story but that your heroism could be deployed in the service of saving humanity itself from certain destruction. Is it so surprising that this promise attracted people who were not prepared to be bit players in group housing dramas and abstract technical papers?
Good point.
Logic. Rationality. Intelligence. Somewhere in all these attempts to harness them for our shared humanity, they’d been warped and twisted to destroy it.
Oh, the warping and twisting started long before Ziz. (The Sequences are cult shit.)
LaSota and those in her orbit alleged that CFAR and its leadership were laced with anti-trans beliefs and practices. (“That's preposterous,” one member of the rationalist community, who is also trans, told me. “Rationalists have the most trans people of any group I've seen that isn't explicitly about being trans. You'd just show up at a math event or house party, and it would be 20 percent trans.”)
The leadership can't be transphobic because 20% of the membership is trans. In related news, the United States government cannot be sexist because [breaks down into bleak and bitter laughter]
Don't think in detail about the future superintelligence that can hug you and turn you into TANG!
I was tempted to give them their free ticket to the egress for saying "paint their discourse with the purples".
It's conceivable that there was some amazing math lurking in one or more of the non-string-theory ideas, and nobody was lucky enough to find it.
bro is this close to reinventing g but for morality