David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-210 days agoSITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead - an amazing slab of AI doomerism. This is what the OpenAI inner cultists actually believeplus-squaresituational-awareness.aiexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkSITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead - an amazing slab of AI doomerism. This is what the OpenAI inner cultists actually believeplus-squaresituational-awareness.aiDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-210 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agoCaroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareCaroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square25fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 16 days agoBBC on the Network State crew, featuring many of our old favouritesplus-squarewww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBBC on the Network State crew, featuring many of our old favouritesplus-squarewww.bbc.co.ukDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square2fedilink
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agoAdderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Riskplus-squarearchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAdderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Riskplus-squarearchive.phTinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square5fedilink
epigone@awful.systems · 28 days agoWhat was Trump actually doing on 9/11? An anniversary fact check.plus-squareweb.archive.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWhat was Trump actually doing on 9/11? An anniversary fact check.plus-squareweb.archive.orgepigone@awful.systems · 28 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 29 days agoExtropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind - a history of the early days of several of our very good friendsplus-squareaiascendant.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkExtropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind - a history of the early days of several of our very good friendsplus-squareaiascendant.substack.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square7fedilink
Proteish@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agoBostrom's advice for the ethical treatment of LLMs: remind them to be happyplus-squarewww.youtube.comvideomessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1videoBostrom's advice for the ethical treatment of LLMs: remind them to be happyplus-squarewww.youtube.comProteish@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square41fedilink
Rosencrantz@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month ago-aiplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-square-aiplus-squareRosencrantz@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agohere's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised themplus-squareapp.simplenote.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkhere's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised themplus-squareapp.simplenote.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square57fedilink
slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoNo, intelligence is not like heightplus-squaretheinfinitesimal.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNo, intelligence is not like heightplus-squaretheinfinitesimal.substack.comslopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square52fedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoOff-Topic: Music Recommendation Threadplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareOff-Topic: Music Recommendation Threadplus-squareblakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square35fedilink
UnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoThe Politics of Urbitplus-squarejournals.sagepub.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe Politics of Urbitplus-squarejournals.sagepub.comUnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agoour boy Moldy is back at Urbit (gosh! etc), as interviewed by an Urbit loving crypto bro. Anyway, they're gonna solve their funding problems by doing a shitcoinplus-squarewww.coindesk.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkour boy Moldy is back at Urbit (gosh! etc), as interviewed by an Urbit loving crypto bro. Anyway, they're gonna solve their funding problems by doing a shitcoinplus-squarewww.coindesk.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square52fedilink
slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoTP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Rightplus-squarewww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Rightplus-squarewww.theatlantic.comslopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square5fedilink
dadbod_beeblebrox@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoThe worst person you know: "We bought an island"plus-squarebalajis.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe worst person you know: "We bought an island"plus-squarebalajis.comdadbod_beeblebrox@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square41fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoremoved the "NSFW" rule for commentary rather than direct links to sneerablesplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareremoved the "NSFW" rule for commentary rather than direct links to sneerablesplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months ago"Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction"plus-squaredoriantaylor.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"Hours and hours of content have been minted by highly-educated, prestigiously-credentialed people, consternating about the policy implications of Sam Altman’s speculative fan fiction"plus-squaredoriantaylor.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square34fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agoin which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal peopleplus-squarewww.hollywoodreporter.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkin which the Hollywood Reporter, of all outlets, attempts to explain our very good friends and their billionaire very good friends to normal peopleplus-squarewww.hollywoodreporter.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square17fedilink
AcausalRobotGod@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agoif you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-educationplus-squareawful.systemsimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageif you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-educationplus-squareawful.systemsAcausalRobotGod@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square58fedilink
mtraven@mastodon.social · 2 months agoHelp me you're my only hope https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzscheanplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareHelp me you're my only hope https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/matt-yglesias-considered-as-the-nietzscheanplus-squaremtraven@mastodon.social · 2 months agomessage-square40fedilink