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froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)English0·3 months agothe worst talos principle dlc
“what if my CEO god-king decides not to follow my plan” is a thesis even the worst startup founders have muddled through and I find it repeatedly funny as fuck that this mediocre monster of a man is hitting it
maybe it’s indicative of other things? maybe he believed so hard in the plan that he misjudged felon’s ability? maybe felon just conned him easily? extremely possible on multiple fronts, and still just as funny
imagine how fucking frustrated the little shitgoblin must be. it makes my angry heart flutter!
if I were to make any predictive guesses about this at all (and I know the possible folly herein): probably the biggest issue with this is that he’ll try use it as a beacon for others (thiel? thiel-shaped people) to put effort behind “correcting the path”
and there’s enough ghouls invested in this to try that a not-insignificant amount
aww, poor baby, he didn’t consider the risk of incentives around an avaricious power-hungry narcissist! whoops! what an utterly embarrassing and predictable mistake to make
(get fucked moldbug)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)English0·3 months agoThis is extremely confusing from the outside
understandable! and it’s messy in the weeds, because the loons have been talking about and doing absolutely crazy shit for a long time
And I don’t know where does this Lemmy community fit into all of this.
so, before I answer, I’ll tell you upfront that you’ll probably hate what you learn. that said, see the sidebar for some links and descriptions
the community (techtakes, sneerclub) can be loosely described as a collective of people who’ve, for some reason or another, found themselves caring- /having to care about/encountering/etc one or more of the loons in the subject groups, and then needing a place to vent about it
partly this is because these loons are extremely influential in tech and related spheres, and have been becoming ever more so in recent political pushes in the US. much of yarvin’s thought is directly influencing current US government policy, and all the harms that is causing people. the current stock market bonfire? yeah, these fucking guys.
Sounds good - being rational is obviously a good thing
there’s a difference between “being rational” and capital-R Rationalism (which is what’s involved from yud/lesswrong/etc)
nice reads about rational thought
on paper, that’s the pitch. in practice, it’s cult shit. it’s also self-reinforced for years against any actual expertise - all the fuckers in this scene don’t want to learn from anyone “outside”, and they do an extreme amount of mental gymnastics to justify their various beliefs (which frequently include scientific racism, eugenics, etc)
if you listen to podcasts, Behind The Bastards has featured episodes of (Curtis) Yarvin in the last 2y, as well as another (very recently) on Ziz. all these go into a fair amount of detail about these people. but, again, warning: you will hate what you learn.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Vaccinations in Book/Article Form, Part IIEnglish0·3 months agothink there was a mod note a while ago (@dgerard? I think?) that nsfw was no longer required
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Ziz update thread, started 19 FebruaryEnglish0·3 months agosame. I’d known quite a depth of detail, but had never gotten as deep as the innards of those quotes from conference conversations
super healthy and normal situations.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsEnglish0·4 months agolet’s not (even in jest)
plausible undeniability
kinda wonder if the pushback about the nyt article contributes to this
“intelligent” people make the best marks, donchaknow
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.English0·4 months agoI don’t remember seeing Lesswrongers play with these sorts of ideas
the all-defector in rajaniemi’s books probably sits pretty close?
(I still can’t tell if rajaniemi’s actually really into all this shit, or just found it all to be a highly convenient backstory for some detailed scifi)
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.English0·4 months agothere’s been some (what appears to me to be) remarkable progress in the field, in that I know that it’s possible to create intentional structures. it’s very much not my field so I can’t speak to it in detail, I think the best way I could describe where I understand it to be is that it’s like people building with lego, if that makes sense?
but yeah it’s still a damn far way off from what we’d call “gene programming” as we have “computer programming”
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.English0·4 months agoa fairly sizable chunk of everything, generally.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Ziz update thread, started 19 FebruaryEnglish0·4 months agoI was not aware of this, failed my constitution roll, and have taken psychic damage
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Ziz update thread, started 19 FebruaryEnglish0·4 months agoeven this he has to ruin
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Ziz update thread, started 19 FebruaryEnglish0·4 months agothe sidebar has a link (the TESCREAL one) which may also be illuminating
as to the rest, yuuuuuup. that’s why sneerclub and techtakes exist.
froztbyte@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Ziz update thread, started 19 FebruaryEnglish0·4 months agoit’s … hairy
this is a prior attempt by me at giving a (very) concise overview of the “main camp” (for lack of a better term). the zizians are a distinct, specific, extremist offshoot of these.
and I want to make clear that “extremist” there is really, really intense. because 'ole Yud himself has advocated nuking datacenters to “stop the AI”
thiel’s linked in by…many strands. it’s pretty accurate to say that many aren’t known, and only some are. some things that are: these ideas are extremely popular with a lot of the kind of people who work at thiel-funded/thiel-connected companies (palantir, etc etc). there’s also a strong link/correlation between the sort of shit that both thiel/yarvin say, and many of these
don’t feel bad for not getting it from the getgo, nor should you feel bad about not wanting to dive in. much of their shit spans 2~3 decades (even longer when you account for the extropians and longtermists and shit…), so there’s a lot
the pampered boot is the pampered boot, no matter the windowdressing it applies