Encultured AI was started in 2022 by regulars of AI doomsday site LessWrong to work out new safety benchmarks for existential risk — whether the AI would turn us all into paperclips. [LessWrong, 20…
He was previously involved in MetaMed, a 2012 attempt to use medicine to demonstrate the power of LessWrong rationalism: telling staff not trained in medicine that their job was to out-doctor actual doctors from first principles they had learned on an amateur philosophy forum.
2012? So where’s the reporting of their success? 12 years is enough to literally finish med school and get a license, surely they achieved way more in that time with their massive rat dongs brains.
Microcosm of the entire ratosphere.
2012? So where’s the reporting of their success? 12 years is enough to literally finish med school and get a license, surely they achieved way more in that time with their massive rat
dongsbrains.Vassar founded MetaMed as a real-world test of the inherent superiority of LessWrong ideas. By 2015, he had his answer! they fail