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A quick glance at segfaults reactions seem to me like he operates on 'if I just explain it enough to people they will agree with my side, and if they dont they have not properly heard all the facts', and he (the dox people dropped seems to imply male pronouns) seems to really begrudge friends/people he knows irl for disagreeing with him. Which doesnt seem to be the most healthy place to be in in a conflict like this.

What a shitshow, always sad to see somebody have an online episode like that. (As an outsider I obv have no idea what is going on, and im not going to dig into all that).

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    it has become painfully clear that there is some sort of intrinsic value to the truth of the art, of the experience that creates it, to the backstory that connects it to reality.

    This has been a thing for a while now already, even before gen AI in gaming that there often was, for a lot of people a preference to playing with others, as in various games any npc AI, or randomly generated events (like in skyrims dynamic quests) were seen as less interesting than real human interactions/created things.

    Think this is a typo btw:

    Hidu pantheon

    The argument goes that we're seeing an exponential increase in the rate of technological development.

    Also interesting to note that the evidence so far is at max N=1.

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    The top comments under the yt vid:

    "If people like 47fu build it, everybody dies."

    And

    When I saw Eliezer's attire in the thumbnail, I was a bit disappointed. However, after listening to the first five minutes, I'm wondering how the hell he knew to dress so appropriately. Now I'm convinced he is a genius.

    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).

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    As we don't have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

    Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

    But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

    And remember, no fed posting.

    Edit: looks like his house also got shot. Archive (after the speculation in this thread, makes you wonder if this was a follow up false flag, as the bottle didn't break last time).

     

    Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

    I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

    https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

     

    As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

    Original link.

    I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

    E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

     

    Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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