If this is true, then it’s a remarkable bit of SF foresight

who’d think a commie could see right through a billionaire’s PR hype

this is notes, not a thesis, i have the links to hand

What the fuck is wrong with you?

the blog tagline is “Dysgenics, forecasting, machine learning, sociology, physiognomy, IQ, simulations”, so he tells us straight up what’s wrong with him

wot i got so far:

Current “artificial general intelligence” researchers have a repeated habit of using a definition of “intelligence” from psychologist and ardent race scientist Linda Gottfredson. The definition looks innocuous, but was from Gottfredson’s 1994 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Mainstream Science on Intelligence,” a farrago of race science put forward as a defense of Charles Murray’s book The Bell Curve — signed off by 52 other race scientists, 20 of whom were from the Pioneer Fund.

Gottfredson’s piece was cited in Shane Legg’s Ph.D dissertation “Machine Super Intelligence,” in which he called it “an especially interesting definition as it was given as part of a group statement signed by 52 experts in the field” and that it therefore represented “a mainstream perspective” — an odd way to refer to Pioneer Fund race scientists. Somehow, this passed Legg’s dissertation committee.

The definition made it from Legg’s Ph.D into Microsoft and OpenAI’s “Sparks of AGI” paper, and from there to everyone else who copies citations to fill out their bibliography. When called out on this, Microsoft did finally remove the citation.

I have a half written text about working definitions of intelligence in the AI field and whoops, it’s all racism!

sadly not directly

we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of

Ziz appears in court for bail hearing

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

just started a Ziz thread over on the Reddit sneerclub too

Vice signalling. https://awful.systems/post/3520479

probably something innocuous, we should edit the quote to reflect what we think they might have meant

or glasses

as you know, there is one pronatalist couple

I am delighted to hear that Veppers was literally based on Musk

my god

A subspecies of the tie nazi

OBJECTION! Lanyard nazis include many a shove-in-a-locker nazi