rachel adjogah \\ college hill

people have been doing this thing of having LLMs impersonate real people since LLMs were invented

Microsoft invested in an AI company that had impersonation of Nintendo characters on their website. no one cares anymore

Them: Why don't you make common cause with the doomers?

Us: Because there is a scare resource we are competing for: policy maker attention

Bernie: Posts a video on X of a conversation he had with Yud & co at MIRI.

Preventing STIs with Doxy PEP Per a court order, HHS is require this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court's order an implemented consistent with applicable law Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate an disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.

this isn't new or anything but the HHS is so deranged it's actually funny.. this very normal page about DoxyPEP proclaims that HHS doesn't promote "gender ideology" and that the page describing DoxyPEP "does not reflect reality"

I guess anti-biotics are just some woke made up pronouns shit now?

The day after republicans swept elections, I posted a video beginning by saying that a cult has won every branch of government

I got quite a lot of pushback about that phrasing, commonly called hysterical or exaggerating or partisan

This has never been hidden. They’re comfortable being louder now

he cited concerns over mass *domestic* surveillance. emphasis his

mass foreign surveillance doesn't appear to be an issue

i expected worse tbh. it's less on the nose than Cluely

Dylan Matthews of Vox tried to sneak prediction markets into his own reporting

he admitted this at a prediction market conference that was funded by Substack. there's a huge overlap between effective altruists (including Vox Future Perfect), AI/tech, and prediction markets

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Dude who wrote about how "the left is missing out on AI" is on here. Do you see who they are funded by? The biggest EA funders, the longtermist institutes we've been writing about and documenting, including FLI where Muskrat is still an advisor.

>id wager this person doesn’t have an Era account and that the pfp is fake

yeah ain't no way anyone who cares that much actually believes in agp

not surprising

Goertzel to Epstein: About the issue of allowing conversion of real $$ into AGI Tokens.... I do understand there is greater legal/regulatory risk in doing it this way=.. On the other hand, I don't see any other way to make the thing really grow to exceed Google, FB etc. in size (or even become self-supporting)... Basically, we need real-world users who need Al services for their businesses to outsource their work to Agents in the SingularityNET and these real-world businesses have their assets in fiat currency... ...the world needs to have ways to turn fiat back and forth into AGI tokens... Eventually maybe not, if the AGI economy overtakes the normal-world economy. But for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host, and these resources are now mainly expressed in fiat currency...

Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy":

"for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"

Screenshots of tweets from Yishan Wong alongside thinking emojis

new article! it's about a former CEO of Reddit and his extreme views about an AI apocalypse. he thinks the AI doomsday "paperclipping" is coming soon wants humanity to "die with dignity"

www.polemics.md/former-reddi...

Tweet from Dr. Ben Braddock liked by David Holz. It's about Stonewall Jackson and refers to the Union in the Civil War as "Yankoids"

Tweet liked by David Holz: SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality? His leisure activities Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920) Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time

Screenshot of David Holz following Laura Southern on Twitter

Screenshot of David Holz following Steve Sailer on Twitter

people sometimes say that drawing conclusions from people's likes and follows on social media is reaching or jumping to conclusions

but this dude's follows include Laura Southern and Steve Sailer. and his likes include tweets about Stonewall Jackson and "the degeneracy of modern amusements"

has anyone written about David Holz's particular role in this yet? he came across my radar a few years ago and was surprised at how Nazi he is

oh i realized that the CEO of Midjourney was a crazy right wing accelerationist back when Twitter likes were public. haven't had a reason to bring it up until now

that last screenshot is particularly damning because Curt Doolittle's "Natural Law Institute" is the most fascist website i've ever seen

Technical debt doesn't arrive in staff cuts meaning everything turns off. It arrives as one person trying to automate 10 people's jobs and maintaining a behemoth by the skin of their teeth, for a little while.

But those 10 employees were productive engineers, and you can't innovate under resourced

Masayoshi Son is one of the most financially powerful AI true believers, but he doesn't get nearly as much press about it as Elon, Altman, Andreessen, Huang, etc

i am on my knees begging the mainstream media to stop uncritically platforming these doomsday cultists

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and parts of academia are literally ground zero for all of this!

the MIRI contributors page also doesn't mention that Thiel personally donated to it way back before LessWrong was even established. as did Jeffery Epstein

this doesn't even scratch the surface of how crazy he is

he co-wrote a D&D eugenics sex roleplay power fantasy with a reporter from Vox, wrote a sci-fi story featuring 4chan where rape is legal, and recommended to his audience a "pg-13" sci-fi book about a 9 year old girl in a 13 year old's body

Masayoshi Son is one of the most powerful AI true believers but doesn't get nearly as much press as Altman, Elon, etc

seeing "SoftBank has declared its mission to realize Artificial Super Intelligence for the advancement of humanity" on official pr statements should be alarming to sane investors

This makes no sense. People need to stop assuming there’s a huge genius strategy behind this. It’s effectively obeying in advance, it empowers evil people with intelligence and guile they lack. They’re doing this because number went up. GPUs are not helpful in that way.

their website says "Made in Europe, motherland of GDPR" but the company is registered in the UK and uses an American cloud service provider to host content

i've seen some talk about Stoat/Revolt as a Discord alternative

it's developed by a group of anonymous volunteers and doesn't have any sort of business model from what i can tell. there's no end-to-end encryption yet either

doesn't seem trustworthy or ready for prime time

unfortunately, HEMA era is on old for now

@tripleq.bsky.social my gf @snowbreak.bsky.social said you might like this

without further ado...

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

reminds me that Roko wrote a huge transphobic essay where he said that "Kaczynski's insight didn't actually go deep enough" and compared him to Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky and the Unabomber Have a Lot in Common (4,400 words)

New piece on the surprising similarities between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. This might sound like hyperbole, but it's not. In my view, the Rationalist community is a ticking time bomb--it's only a matter of time before someone does something inexcusable.