What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World

Surely not things you can print in the newspaper. Surely.

It is also an incredible strength that they actually practice what they preach, and don’t exclude someone based on hearsay and “probably a rapist”.

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I think it’s because they think they’re the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don’t give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they’re racist too.

He is not sure why everyone is so spooked by the “coordination” between agents on random message boards.

It’s weird to be sure, seems like a bug. Don’t they have a more efficient communication channel available through the harness? If this was real and not a test it would be a catastrophic operational security failure.

With Better Offline and the NYT simultaneously covering Rationalists it seems like maybe we’re getting more mainstream sneering. A bunch of people (including bsky) are finding out about all the weird lore.

At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

Apparently it’s getting weird over at Automattic

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don’t give a shit about you.

one million times this

Aaaaaand flagged

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there.

‘Bruh’ moment

The antiai sub on Reddit is lousy with doomers now. Ugh.

Just in time for Irreplaceable to show up!

They recognize the groundswell of anti AI sentiment and want to try and channel it into AI booster action. Good luck with that.

Realistically a BSD

I’m morbidly curious about how they’re going to animate a doughnut. Is it going to wobble? Quiver? Oh god people are gonna, aren’t they…

You can see the future first in San Francisco

🔮"I see a city street. Massive wealth disparity and a lot of homeless… Jesus that’s a lot of homeless"

It’s going to be really interesting to see if the foss zealots who switched over to the AI side will handle heavy handed regulation taking away their local models.

It’s full of knowledge I want but buried in lots of text I don’t wanna read.

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