oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it’d have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don’t worry about all the private information we’re leaking!

best bit

also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour

amazing

yeah if anything this is making yud look good T_T amazing stuff

So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.

Apologies for radical feministing but “biological sex” is also a constructed category! It’s useful shorthand for quick categorising a bunch of related traits if you’re doing biology, but it does not meaningfully exist on an individual scale. There is no more reason to divide humanity on the basis of sex than on the basis of hair colour.

Isn’t it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it’s thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?

HN:

The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?

tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.

I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”

1. are entirely missing the point of thought experiments,
2. why the fuck would you comply with such a fucked up scenario in real life lmao you worm

yeah he rules

Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.

Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).

yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo

jesus fucking christ this is insufferable, these guys have been masking off for so long now that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to find new things to do fascist signalling about

I’ve done crowdsourced work qualifying bits of random work e-mails (had to determine “is this a query” if I recall correctly), and yeah this was like more than a dozen years ago.

The ends justify the means but the means are genocide and slavery and the ends are a society with none of those pesky labour rights built on a bedrock of white supremacy. Where’s the dilemma?

I was referring of course to this vision of hell on their webpage!

I wonder if they’ve ever experienced any emotion other than smugness.

congratulations aella on being the only creature on this planet who’s not a strange smirking man i guess!

Suppose you’re a college grad who has to decide between the usual unpaid internships at dumb startups vs. getting to be a ‘research fellow’ for a group that says it’s going to solve philosophy and save the world, and the only catch is that the group is actually a cult. Still seems pretty tempting honestly.

Oh?

NeoReaction: It’s Always Antisemitism

God this is so funny. He’s so evasive about why exactly it is bad to be associated with Epstein. I just asked mummy and she said no.

“I don’t think doing that would have made me complicit. But, you know, it would have been very embarrassing for me.”

Aw don’t worry I have no morals. But people would have been mean to me again!