[-] dgerard@awful.systems 35 points 3 weeks ago

"There was a post, [pause], I forget who wrote it" <- the kind of thing I have said several times attempting to avoid leaking rationalist-evidence-bits.

gotta keep that power level under wraps

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 1 month ago

Jacob Silverman:

It's March 2025. Everyone has resigned from OpenAI except Altman, a single H1B programmer, 50 lawyers, and the guy who refills the keurig. The company is worth $4 trillion.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 2 months ago

twitter comment:

they made something that actually does not run doom, which is a first at least

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago

whoops! that was our error! It's actually "Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment" which is at least an acronym. Fixed.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 35 points 4 months ago

it was acausally enabled before you clicked on it, for your comfort and convenience, like the new ad tracker built into Firefox 128

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 36 points 4 months ago

they're still least worst, but "oh the fuck no" is the correct reaction

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

comment:

I was at Manifest as a volunteer, and I also saw much of the same behaviour as you. If I had known scientific racism or eugenics were acceptable topics of conversation there, I wouldn’t have gone. I’m increasingly glad I decided not to organise a talk.

EA needs to recognise that even associating with scientific racists and eugenicists turns away many of the kinds of bright, kind, ambitious people the movement needs. I am exhausted at having to tell people I am an EA ‘but not one of those ones’. If the movement truly values diversity of views, we should value the people we’re turning away just as much.

my brother in the Acausal Robot God, I have some unfortunate news about what your fellow EAs have espoused for the past twenty years.

Austin from Manifest responds that leftist views would obviously much more damaging to EA than racist ones, because reasons.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 5 months ago

and yet you signed up to Awful Systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 8 months ago

BEAT SKELTON on Twitter points out:

MY ONLY CONTRIBUTION TO THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE DAY IS THAT THE RADIOLOGISTS PROBABLY DIDN'T ACTUALLY USE AN AI, THEY JUST TOLD MISHA THEY DID TO MAKE HIM SHUT UP.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 33 points 8 months ago

Welcome to the abyss! Here's your hazmat suit with a leak! It sucks here!

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 34 points 8 months ago

and - a key point - his prospective tradwaifus don't want him

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