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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? (www.forbes.com)
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At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” ...

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” ...

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In an essay that somehow manages to offhandendly mention both evolutionary psychology and hentai anime in the same paragraph.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's like when he wore a fedora and started talking about 4chan greentexts in his first major interview. He just cannot help himself.

P.S. The New York Times recently listed "internet philosopher" Eliezer Yudkowsky as one of the of the major figures in the modern AI movement, this is the picture they chose to use.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is the picture they chose to use.

You may not like it, but this is what peak rationality looks like.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the cookie cutter glasses are load bearing

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

That hat could only work with New Year's Eve glasses from a year with "00".