LWer suggests people who believe in AI doom make more efforts to become (internet) famous. Apparently not bombing on Lex Fridman's snoozecast, like Yud did, is the baseline.
The community awards the post one measly net karma point, and the lone commenter scoffs at the idea of trying to convince the low-IQ masses to the cause. In their defense, Vanguardism has been tried before with some success.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qcKcWEosghwXMLAx9/doomers-should-try-much-harder-to-get-famous
Yes the rationalists are an incredibly large market and their opinion can make or break an author, sure you betcha
Thanks for posting this, it was entertaining.
Expect the "AI safety" weenuses to have a giant freakout too.
There are anti-blockchain people in the comments.
Dude where have you been these last 3 years.
New eugenics conference just dropped
"Chatham House rules" so they can happily be racist without anyone pointing fingers at them.
Good on Quora members for debunking too.
should have gone with "Moldbuggery" Scott
Here's an interesting nugget I discovered today
A long LW post tries to tie AI safety and regulations together. I didn't bother reading it all, but this passage caught my eye
USS Eastland Disaster. After maritime regulations required more lifeboats following the Titanic disaster, ships became top-heavy, causing the USS Eastland to capsize and kill 844 people in 1915. This is an example of how well-intentioned regulations can create unforeseen risks if technological systems aren't considered holistically.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ARhanRcYurAQMmHbg/the-historical-parallels-preliminary-reflection
You will be shocked to learn that this summary is a bit lacking in detail. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
Because the ship did not meet a targeted speed of 22 miles per hour (35 km/h; 19 kn) during her inaugural season and had a draft too deep for the Black River in South Haven, Michigan, where she was being loaded, the ship returned in September 1903 to Port Huron for modifications, [...] and repositioning of the ship's machinery to reduce the draft of the hull. Even though the modifications increased the ship's speed, the reduced hull draft and extra weight mounted up high reduced the metacentric height and inherent stability as originally designed.
(my emphasis)
The vessel experiences multiple listing incidents between 1903 and 1914.
Adding lifeboats:
The federal Seamen's Act had been passed in 1915 following the RMS Titanic disaster three years earlier. The law required retrofitting of a complete set of lifeboats on Eastland, as on many other passenger vessels.[10] This additional weight may have made Eastland more dangerous by making her even more top-heavy. [...] Eastland's owners could choose to either maintain a reduced capacity or add lifeboats to increase capacity, and they elected to add lifeboats to qualify for a license to increase the ship's capacity to 2,570 passengers.
So. Owners who knew they had an issue with stability elected profits over safety. But yeah it's the fault of regulators.
”Canola” was minted because ”rape seed oil” is an even worse name.
Of all the people he could choose to sell out to, he chose Worldcoin???