What the actual fuck do these people believe???

If I had to summarize it, they believe in scifi handwaves and have taken them far beyond mere logical conclusions.

From the US department of not beating those allegations.

What’s the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven’t switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

OSI is gonna mandate that we call it open source now, didn’t ya hear?

Can’t people run it locally supposedly?

Awesome, I no longer have to link to leaked emails to convince people he’s a phrenologist, he just went and wrote a nice succinct article laying it out.

You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.

The point was SSCers reacting. Vance being an SSCer isn’t notable as he’s a Thiel creature. SSCers being confronted with the eyeshadowed mirror that is Vance is much more interesting because they spend a lot of time being nominally not exactly what Vance is.

The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.

You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.

Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.

Apple Envy

Launch all the nukes?

Oof, that slid right past me. I think I skimmed some of the parts the article told me it was ok to skim if I wanted to.

This is actually a really damning article. Despite the carefully constructed facade, Scott simply isn’t curious about anything that might broaden his world.

It’s just a question of when they pull the trigger on this.

Especially leadership of a political organization that’s basically just there to turn his opinions into code and publish his essays.

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.

When the music stops can’t MS just let OpenAI go bankrupt and keep the tech?

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?