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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)
Futurism published an article on Nate Soares
Soares says he is not saving for retirement because he expects AI doom, meanwhile the stated justification for MIRI paying Yud $600k a year is so he can become independently wealthy and above to the vulgar necessity of trading time for money. These people can’t even bother being halfway consistent.
apparently MIRI doesn’t offer any of its employees 401K
The trend continues.
E: Hey at least this is an example of somebody actually critical of Eliezer who misspells his name, so finally one of his claims has turned out to be right.
E2: somebody has send the author a DM on bsky and got it fixed.
As well as top economist finding that AI has zero financial payoff
the “to companies outside of tech” seems to be doing some heavy lifting there