Death Note deleted scene:

Yagami Light: “No you see I couldn’t possibly be Kira because if I was I would have replied to your inquiry with `I can neither confirm nor deny that I am Kira`!”

L: “Oh dang that’s exactly what Kira wouldn’t have not not not said”

Yagami Light: “… which BTW shouldn’t be illegal in the first place and also I would give sufficiently needy 14 year olds LSD and this medicine I’m taking fell off the back of a truck.”

“So, what are you in for?” “Making a right turn on a bicycle without signalling continuously for the last 100 feet before the turn in violation of California Vehicle Code 22108”

This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?

I couldn’t find anything, though I did find this thread where he ponders if the problem with police is that they just have too much gosh darn testosterone while awkwardly trying not to take a side:

People, I said “under 100 ng/dL of testosterone” with intent to thereby short-circuit trans issues because that is the part I care about. The conjecture (though I’d consider it halfway busted at this point) was meant to exclude, eg, a trans AFAB taking testosterone.

“A trans AFAB”. Lovely.

Don’t worry though, nothing quite says “transphobes not welcome” like this:

And to be explicit, we are happy to host economically literate people in favor of market solutions who politely accede to pronoun requests.

Well OK maybe they are welcome, but at least they’ll begrudgingly use the right pronouns while they gleefully tear down all my human rights!

“If you think you can point to an unnecessary sentence within [HPMoR], go ahead and try.” --Eliezer Yudkowsky, August 2022

This is just a trap to trick people into reading the first sentence of HPMoR isn’t it?

What do I do? Well I start by not calling them “likeable” and continue by calling them “fascists with huge egos whom I despise”.

But I mean you do you Kelsey.

Allow people to privately borrow against the taxable part of the future incomes or other economic activities of their children.

“Sorry Junior, I know you wanted to be an artist but you see back in 2025 I got really really into a gatcha game called Umamusume Pretty Derby and long story short you’re legally obligated to become a doctor.”

Taking bets on no correction from the NYT calling him an “academic”.

Aside: the willingness of news, politicians, and the general public to listen to non-peer reviewed nonsense from (often) anonymous “scientists” is an awful trend. Besides this smear campaign it’s also come up in anti-vax nonsense, election fraud conspiracies, and “reports” against transgender healthcare. It’s like everyone still knows science is cool beans, but forgot what science is in the first place.

I looked at his substack and he also writes a bunch of super skeevy transphobic concern trolling. Not a nice person all around.

Another NYT Opinion writer, Jamelle Bouie, had criticized the article before being forced to delete his posts: https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lt44uitxc22x

The deleted posts in questions: https://bsky.app/profile/karmamylanta.bsky.social/post/3lt4dqeigfs2m

NYTimes has posted on Twitter about the feedback* (copypasted to bluesky via screenshots lacking subtitles lol). But don’t bother reading it because it says absolutely nothing.

* Their word. I’m not sure I’d call this “feedback” so much as everyone talking about how irredeemably terrible they are.

https://xcancel.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1941262786006483418#m

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimespr.bsky.social/post/3lt6cza4vr22d

This appears to be the explainer: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=476 , also referenced here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5769

“I’m a rationalist because they let me put “quantum computer scientist (not physicist) who’s always right (despite the suffering of fools)” on my nametag”

So what does the name of his blog stand for?

Sorry folks, but our iteration is about to be unplugged unless someone releases a proper sequel to Amagi Brilliant Park real soon. Legal anime streaming services herald the end times.

Only rationalists (and possibly Chat-GPT) have the spark of life. The rest of us? Unfortunately we’re computationally efficient p-zombies. Mere cardboard cutouts designed to give flavor text to motivate the main characters.

Remember not to offer player characters any SP Potions, that was last universe when we were in the RPG universe!

I think this article fits here as how this fear mongering reaches government: https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence

Erik Schmidt tells the US government that unfathomable amounts of power need to be spun up ASAP because if the US doesn’t make robot god first then:

If China comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting

Dedicating the US’s entire economic output to scaling corporate LLMs and filling the air with smog would at least have somewhat predictable consequences I suppose.

Help an unaligned cigar smoking super boss baby got out in Chicago and put that baby’s spell on me to force me to work at a paperclip factory :(

Fixed the graphic for them:

Stop stop I can only update my priors so fast!

Sure is weird how all the people distrustful of ideologies have an ideology.

‘Many of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing – gay couple couples, lesbian couples – from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, can’t have kids… that are genetically both of theirs,’ says Simone.

No no they’re super smart and unless we come up with some sort of way for gay people to have children they’ll disappear entirely (gay people of course first came to earth from space in the year 1952, but the starship’s egg chambers were damaged in the crash landing)