How much do I need to smoke to get in this level of naval gazing?

No way PG has the attention span to write this much.

I'm here for it.

So which big name TREACLES are gonna be on it?

Chewing gum fans may want a word.

I lol'd at:

What are they doing with all that money?

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some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.

For the lab leak theory to work you have to assume not only that some workers at the lab got infected, but also that they spread it all over the city before anybody noticed, such that by the time anyone did notice, they were several degrees of contact from the lab workers.

Trent Reznor soundtrack though.

Wait, there's another weird techno-cult?

The community manager saying they were aware of the situation (and presumably took no corrective action and kept it hush-hush) was damning. As is the post that's just like what about the reputational damage!?

Zero recognition of the fucked up power dynamics at play, and way too much 'well, nerds will be nerds.'

I seem to recall a very similar situation in EA, let me dig it up... ah yes, it was this entire Time article: https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/

Seems to line up pretty closely with what several other people say about several other "orgs."

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