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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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our friends are taking Donald Trump seriously
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HGJSGRwjPqhDEud5Y/you-should-go-vote-for-the-maga-rebranded-name-for-ai
What, no American Intelligence?
The EAs and Trump really deserve each other.
The EA/lesswronger attitude of "assuming good faith" (to the right people) and taking shit too seriously does play perfectly off of Trump's blatantly hollow and shallow rhetorical shenanigans.
That's precisely the reason they were ripe for infiltration by and platforming authoritarian whackdoodles to young tech types
True... except for the fact that some of them were there at the start. Like, for example, Nick Bostrom had some pretty racist/eugenicist stuff come out from the 90s when he was on some mailing lists and 90s nets. Nick Bostrom was a founding member of the Future of Humanity Institute, along with Toby Ord (another EA founding member) and they got money from Elon Musk.
A strange question to ask given the existence of Donald Trump in the first place.
Is this some kind of strange 5D chess gambit that if Trump picks the name that pisses people off the most, then people will try the hardest to regulate it or something? Somehow assuming that people will take this Trump renaming stunt seriously after all the other Trump renaming stunts? Why do I even bother? Fuck. This is so stupid.
When you think you are at the Hinge of Ages that decides the Fate of the Very Universe Forever And Ever Amen, how many waffles you eat this morning has cosmic significance. This is part of what drove the Zizians insane.
you have to be fucking kidding me