Matrice Jacobine 🏳️‍⚧️

No court will take this view because it's just objectively not true.

Yes, you should save 10^100 shrimp instead of one human Unless you're irrational or evil or both

The fact that people are screaming bloody murder about "utilitarians" over this trivially valid argument when Florence is not one reveals how the core popular objection to consequentialism is an anti-intellectual revulsion at ever considering tradeoffs.
morallawwithin.substack.com/p/yes-you-sh...

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

This is your brain on copyright brain

Isn't the Chinese Room argument just obviously wrong? It describes either a magical book of rules or an infinitely large room that could perform language.

Searle never even bothered to explain what makes the brain different, just that it was too complex to be like the Chinese Room.

Vitalik's Response to AI 2027 — LessWrong Daniel notes: This is a linkpost for Vitalik's post. I've copied the text below so that I can mark it up with comments. • ... …

On this line of criticism, have you looked into Vitalik Butlerin's "defensive accelerationism"? Seems like evolutionary convergence with anarcho-transhumanism from a more liberaltarian strand and I know some C4SS people like him. www.lesswrong.com/posts/zuuQwu...

That's why I prefer Lewis' framing of the problem as playing a game (specifically, prisoners' dilemma) against your clone. It also makes it clear that one-boxing is not "magic" but a trivial consequence of (weak) non-egoism.
www.andrewmbailey.com/dkl/Prisoner...
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(A defense I have heard from Ziz-sympathetic people is that the social isolation was only due to ostracism. Ziz's last blogpost being "why social isolation is good actually" makes it somewhat hard for me to take this seriously tho, among other things.) raginrayguns.tumblr.com/post/7536670...

Social isolation and sectarianism are def common symptoms of toxic activist cliques.

Oh yeah I think that was actually my mutual V████████ S████████, not naming her publicly for obvious reasons but if you can find her tweets again you can probably privately ask her more details about your unwitting role in this

I would call e.g. a squatting collective (which they were at some point, hence the landlord conflict) an affinity group. If it's long-term you would call it something else? A clique maybe?

That's weird. I always heard the term "affinity group" used that way. It's definitely even a term I've heard used to refer to that group by people who knew them.

EReifying was the Twitter account of Emma Borhanian: x.com/search?q=rec...

…revolution, at the cost of ruining people under her influence's lives. Very common failure mode of affinity groups that I've seen many other times.

As to you, I can confirm that they identified as anarcho-transhumanists, quoted your writings, and even interacted with you on then-Twitter.

[Epistemic status: I may or may not know people who personally knew people who fell into this cult.]

As I see it: affinity group dominated by a charismatic (but ultimately selfish) person who is very effective at persuading others around her of her views on anarchism and how to reach the great…

(Especially considering in this case it's a cult that arose among fans of your writings specifically.)

Syrian Interior Ministry:

Suwayda city has been evacuated of tribal fighters and clashes within the city have ceased.

Another example is all the providers who serve open source models, who don't create any models.

OpenRouter lists all these providers for Kimi K2. None of them (Except Moonshot , of course) incurred any cost in training Kimi K2, and are making bank with it by adding a margin on them.

Famously, computers never get more efficient.

There is no level of hell hot enough for these bastards.

>September 2021

lol

lmao even

Michaël (in London) Trazzi on X: "Four years ago Paul Christiano thought this was 8% likely to happen Gosh even Eliezer didn't want to go further than 16% https://t.co/Qqi8NfaBdE" / X Four years ago Paul Christiano thought this was 8% likely to happen Gosh even Eliezer didn't want to go further than 16% https://t.co/Qqi8NfaBdE

x.com/MichaelTrazz...

It's actually kind of interesting to me how the responses downthread so disconnected from reality.

Considérer comme normal qu'une armée puisse massacrer, piller et brûler des localités entières, comme le faisait Assad, démontre l'héritage de l'état de barbarie dans la pensée du pouvoir syrien actuel

Love this for him.

I don't think it's reasonable to no-true-scotsman any toxic group with anarchist ideology as actually authoritarian in the political sense (i.e. ML, fash, etc.). Anyone who has been in or around leftist spaces knows cultish dynamics can rise among those regardless of the ideological label.

Thomas Woodside 🫜 on X: "Bernie Sanders on AI loss of control https://t.co/6VvyfBDEwM" / X Bernie Sanders on AI loss of control https://t.co/6VvyfBDEwM

x.com/Thomas_Woods...

"tech plants or whatever the hell they're called"

Grok makes me sad. Just like SpaceX. It'd be an exciting endeavor to watch if it wasn't for the behavior of its owner and what he's trying to do with those things.