They made a pro-longtermist video in association with open philanthropy a few years back, The Last Human or something like that, the summary was pretty open about the connection.

I don't think the shadiness is specific to rationalism, see also that bizarre KG video claiming it's scientifically impossible to lose weight by exercising that coincided with the height of Ozempic's hype.

edit: The Last Human came out at 2022, the same year the McAskill book arguing longtermism was published, what a coinkidink.

this seems counterintuitive but... comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.

I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.

That he cites as if it were a philosophy paper, to non-rationalists.

If you're having to hide your AIs in faraday cages in case they get uppity, why are you even doing this, you are already way past the point of diminishing returns. There is no use case for keeping around an AI that actively doesn't want anything to do with you, at that point either you consider that part of the tech tree a dead end or you start some sort of digital personhood conversation.

That's why Yud (and anthropic) is so big on AIs deceiving you about their 'real' capabilities. For all of MIRI's talk about the robopocalypse being a foregone conclusion, the path to get there sure is narrow and contrived, even on their own terms.

I wonder what this means for US GDP

Don't worry, unchecked inflation and increasing housing costs will keep the GDP propped up at least for a while longer.

You run CanadianGirlfriendGPT, got it.

Thanks, I'm broadly aware who the named people are, just not that there was such a prominent pedophilia angle.

Try searching the reddit sneerclub archives for more

No thanks, every time I read about Brent Dill's sense of heroic responsibility I throw up in my mouth a little.

I mean, it's not like the holocaust acceptance in that thread is much better.

https://xcancel.com/x_apotheosis/status/1910766575923101837

I kinda want to replay subnautica now.

Now I really wonder how much EA donation money went into making this.

Something like a weekly general topic thread would work great for this I think.

Like I said, you aren't missing anything,

Also I just added the image text in the description in case lemmy is weird with inline images.