Evinceo 1d ago • 100%
This is actually a really damning article. Despite the carefully constructed facade, Scott simply isn't curious about anything that might broaden his world.
Evinceo 1d ago • 100%
It's just a question of when they pull the trigger on this.
Evinceo 5d ago • 100%
Especially leadership of a political organization that's basically just there to turn his opinions into code and publish his essays.
Evinceo 5d ago • 100%
I don't think anything in the report is new, is it? Isn't this the exact weirdness that got him kicked off the board in the first place? I was shocked when he was quietly added back to the board; I really thought the allegations would stick the first time.
Nice to have it all in one place though.
Evinceo 3w ago • 100%
When the music stops can't MS just let OpenAI go bankrupt and keep the tech?
Evinceo 3w ago • 100%
RIP rationalist moonshot. Takes a special kind of SV-libertarian brainrot to think the world will be saved by a company. Do we have EY's reaction yet?
Evinceo 1mo ago • 100%
They did do one on Yud, it's hard to find and has an annoying amount of side chatter but it's a pretty solid breakdown of the dude.
The episode is mentioned here: https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/rationalist-harry-potter-and-the
But I can no longer find it on YouTube.
Evinceo 1mo ago • 100%
Every TC article I've seen recently is furious jerking about how totally legal AI is and how it will finally defeat the copyright Great Satan.
Evinceo 1mo ago • 100%
Enron-ass character arc.
Evinceo 1mo ago • 100%
You've lost 93% of your investment so far
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Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
Do you have an article about this?
Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
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Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
Bonus HN drama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721197
Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
Maybe he realized it wasn't important after all.
Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
He's exactly the Gilfoyle looking mother fucker you think he is.
Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
Eagerly awaiting the writeup.
Evinceo 2mo ago • 100%
Jibo, Juicero... it is possible to get one's hands on one of Theranos's machines?
Evinceo 3mo ago • 100%
Meta: reddit sneerclub appears to be open again. Is this an authorized action or has Reddit scabbed it?
Evinceo 3mo ago • 100%
good writer
I reject the implication that Slatescott is a good writer.
Evinceo 3mo ago • 100%
I like that RGB LEDs default to flashing rainbow.
www.lesswrong.com
The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: [discussion on reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1boj887/my_interview_with_cade_metz_on_his_reporting/) My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️: > CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.
Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she's a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire's wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies. Bonus downplaying of EA's faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being "accused" of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it's not just the cherry on top of a [lifetime of Bostrom's work](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nick-bostrom-longtermism-and-the-eternal-return-of-eugenics-2/).
Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can't decide, but it's a depressing read. May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.
Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what's going on here. Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies. Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn't a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather... a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?