Fucking hell, when I was finishing up school I heard classmates joke how Wernher von Boer Musk was a slavedriver based on how much he pushed the engineering teams

Turns out it’s true in the most literal sense and so much worse than I could have imagined

“No you misunderstand, we want the same things! We just think Friend Computer could manage society more Effectively based on (garbled utilitarian noises)”

RIP XCancel, it was good while it lasted

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I have this Ezra Klein post burned into my brain

Second, fear of violence undermines liberal politics. Just look at America post-9/11. Or after the crime surges of the 70s and 80s and 90s — strongmen politicians win, punitive responses like mass incarceration and warrior policing rise, social trust collapses.

Really though, still trying to find the guy who did this? No self-awareness from the Iraq War-supporter?

Clears Throat More like Bootlickerbart

During Trump 1 I toyed with making a Twitter bot that would call random things ‘Marxist’ (with a username like ‘marxmywords’ or a similar pun). Decided against it due to the issues with purging dog whistles or slurs, but thanks to Mr Karp I’m starting to reconsider…

The only thing more grotesque than Palantir are its supporterts

Read the comments against my better judgement. Couple of ‘erm ackshuallys’ and then one comment from a self-described ‘former rationalist’ that starts out reasonable enough…then nosedives into something vile (for the record I’m not talking about their complains about how mean Scoot was)

When you definitely understand the anti-AI coalition you want to build

Turns out ‘Grey Tribe’ was a glorified NPC Wojak But Rationalist^TM

Dissident RIght

An Oxymoron If There Ever Was One

New xAI employee just dropped

Archived Post

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Good News, Everyone! Longtime Dimes Square hangout Kiki’s has been shut down - due to nonpayment of taxes (some allegations of wage theft too?)

I’m at a bar trying to watch the Knicks, and there’s someone 2 seats over from me very loudly talking to their date about AI with a lot of LessWrong-coded talking points. For the love of Jalen Brunson just let me watch the fucking game

URL Typo - fixed it

Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream

oh boohoo Beff let me play a sad song for you on the world’s smallest violin

Somebody check if Sam’s got a pied-a-terre in NYC that’s gonna be taxed under this new proposal

Their Branding Guidelines have several logos - including ones where the 7 doesn’t accidentally form a Wolfsangel/Ger-Rune/Lightening Bolt type of shape.

These AI orgs don’t get the benefit of the doubt (FYI on further investigation this looks like a Saudi outfit. Not that they’re any better, mind you)

Trump giving a speech at some TESCREAL-coded nonprofit that’s got some…interesting design in their logo

Waitwaitwait

I just learned these people aren’t talking about Computer Numerical Control

Pass the brain bleach pls