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(The spooks shall soon be upon us.)

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 19 hours ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Ahhh yes, my old friend, the uh, dia-, um, what was it again, oh, yeah, D'yer Mak'er back-to-the-future

[-] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago

tinfoil hat time:I am reminded of reading how some rationalists argued for using bioweapons on "unaligned" frontier ai researchers, and also how the fbi has raided illegal suburban biolabs recently recently, and anthropic's recent announcement that they're starting a biolab.

Probably completely unconnected, but something in the zeitgeist, at least.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

Anthropic: AI MIGHT KILL US ALL WITH A BIOWEAPON

Also Anthropic: starts an AI-run bio lab. If it's run to the same standards as the cybersecurity division I can't imagine it's going to be particularly well-supervised.

Do you want to get T-Virus? Because this feels like how you get T-Virus.

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago

A former disciple says that Soryu Forall startted out wanting to exterminate humanity with a bioweapon and only pivoting to enlightening humanity later on. S.E. Gyges or his chatbot were speculating when they accused a specific Rationalist of dreaming of omnicide, but the idea is circulating in the milieu.

[-] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

That post is login-protected, what does it say?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago

handy tip: all of skeeter is open, and you can bypass the login gate with eg skyview.social

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

Somebody tracked down things related to the 'AI bioweapons' stuff and a lot of them are financed by EA/related orgs apparantly. There is a preprint: https://ironholds.org/resources/papers/aixbio_one.pdf

"We tracked the space financially, intellectually, and individually. Financially, 70% of the literature that disclosed funding was directly supported by EA orgs; 71% of the literature that didn’t disclose funding featured authors from funded orgs. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars."

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