David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoZiz update thread, started 19 Februaryplus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareZiz update thread, started 19 Februaryplus-squarepinDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square48fedilink
scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 days agoChina and AGI: A New Yellow Peril and Red Scareplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareChina and AGI: A New Yellow Peril and Red Scareplus-squarescruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square14fedilink
scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoIs Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!plus-squarewww.writingruxandrabio.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkIs Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!plus-squarewww.writingruxandrabio.comscruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square29fedilink
<3.@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agoEffective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)plus-squarebobjacobs.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkEffective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)plus-squarebobjacobs.substack.com<3.@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square7fedilink
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 17 days agoMoldbug has a sadplus-squarewww.thenerdreich.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkMoldbug has a sadplus-squarewww.thenerdreich.comAllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 17 days agomessage-square31fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 17 days agoHow Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkHow Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square17fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agoBig Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]plus-squarewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkBig Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]plus-squarewww.404media.coBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square5fedilink
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agoScoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareScoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetplus-squareBigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square38fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-221 days agoHow to explain our very good friends to normal humans?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareHow to explain our very good friends to normal humans?plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-221 days agomessage-square35fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-221 days agoLessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonusplus-squareless.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkLessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonusplus-squareless.onlineDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-221 days agomessage-square21fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 22 days agoEAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movementplus-squareforum.effectivealtruism.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkEAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movementplus-squareforum.effectivealtruism.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 25 days agoMoldy's famous now! yaaaaaayplus-squaretime.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkMoldy's famous now! yaaaaaayplus-squaretime.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square2fedilink
jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-224 days agoRenowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanficplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkRenowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanficplus-squarewww.youtube.comjaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-224 days agomessage-square16fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 28 days agoit's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"plus-squarewww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkit's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"plus-squarewww.ft.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square4fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge]plus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-link"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge]plus-squarewww.theverge.comBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agoRace science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsplus-squarewww.uncorrelated.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkRace science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsplus-squarewww.uncorrelated.xyzDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square43fedilink
o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agoThe TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligenceplus-squarefirstmonday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkThe TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligenceplus-squarefirstmonday.orgo7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoTom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts nowplus-squarewww.transgendermap.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkTom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts nowplus-squarewww.transgendermap.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agobroken containment warningplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squarebroken containment warningplus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoYudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1message-squareYudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square56fedilink