Same. I'm not being critical of lab-grown meat. I think it's a great idea.

But the pattern of things he's got an opinion on suggests a familiarity with rationalist/EA/accelerationist/TPOT ideas.

Do you have a link? I'm interested. (Also, I see you posted something similar a couple hours before I did. Sorry I missed that!)

As anyone who's been paying attention already knows, LLMs are merely mimics that provide the "illusion of understanding".

As a longtime listener to Tech Won't Save Us, I was pleasantly surprised by my phone's notification about this week's episode. David was charming and interesting in equal measure. I mostly knew Jack Dorsey as the absentee CEO of Twitter who let the site stagnate under his watch, but there were a lot of little details about his moderation-phobia and fash-adjacency that I wasn't aware of.

By the way, I highly recommend the podcast to the TechTakes crowd. They cover many of the same topics from a similar perspective.

For me it gives off huge Dr. Evil vibes.

If you ever get tired of searching for pics, you could always go the lazy route and fall back on AI-generated images. But then you'd have to accept the reality that in few years your posts would have the analog of a geocities webring stamped on them.

But will my insurance cover a visit to Dr. Spicy Autocomplete?

Please touch grass.

Sorry for the off-topic rant, but WTF is Emile Torres doing on twitter? Anytime I see someone creating content for that Nazi hellsite, I start looking at them differently.

Glowfic feels like a writing format designed in a lab to be the perfect channel for Eliezer's literary diarrhea.

Exactly. It would be easier to take Scott's argument more seriously if it wasn't coming from the very same person who previously labeled as unstable and thereby non-credible a woman who accused his rationalist buddies of sexual harrassment -- a woman who, by the way, went on to die by suicide.

So fuck him and his contrived rationalizations.

All factual and counter-factual statements are evidence for my position. Heads I win, tails you lose.

"Fucking probabilities, how do they work?"