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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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LWer to Big Yud: Please be serious
they're just jelly Elezier has all the cool hats and gets all the ~~chicks~~math pets
I'd forgotten this
-3 upvotes and 0 karma, but the article is absolutely right (they hate this post because it tells the truth). If Eliezer wants to influence public discourse and policy on an international level, he absolutely does need a respectable image (with maybe a touch of eccentricity in an allowable way). But apparently (what he thinks is) the literal end of the world isn't enough to make him actually try for normie public image. Or maybe he has some galaxy brain plan about how looking like a weirdo actually helps his cause? If he does, I strongly suspect it is a rationalization.
this seems like a great time to bring back AI disagreements by Brian Merchant where a rationalist AI convention spends more time arguing about AI takeover scenarios then they do discussing plans to actually stop AI and implement anti-AI policies
Yeah that was a good article. I think that is one of the fundamental issues with rationalists, they are basically a group formed around neat sci-fi ideas and not actually getting anything done, and their strong libertarian biases prevent them from actually pursuing the strategies that would be most effective for many of their nominal goals.
The fan cites an article by Kevin Roose which is gently skeptical of Yud. To paraphrase President Johnson, if Yud has lost the most credulous rube the NYT editorial board can find, he has lost DC.
that image of Yud made me laugh out loud
Looks to me he took the debate the correct amount of serious.
Edit: the link to the debate nobody seems to link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FIg4zQKBpAs 15k views in 3 days
yeah if anything this is making yud look good T_T amazing stuff
The top comments under the yt vid:
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Unrelated to that, but is it just me or does Liron Shapira look weird? Did he use some sort of genAI overlay on his own looks, or some weird postprocessing something? His older vids don't give me that vibe. The bowtie looks oddly floaty. (But can be that they always do that and I'm just not around enough people who wear that).