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Long time lurker, first time sneerer reporting for duty.
e/acc got the spotlight in an article on the Australian public broadcaster, and I couldn't help myself.
welcome! this is a good first post.
and I can see why you needed to sneer. the entire fucking article quirkwashes e/a and BasedBeffJezos by sharing some of the absolute stupidest opinions and memes ever formed (an e/a staple) and a small fraction of the bigotry in their community, and handwaves it all away by claiming BasedBeffJezos must be a genius cause he was a nepo hire at two google subsidiaries and was a “Quantum AI computing scientist”, whatever the fuck that means
wow, it’s almost like your ass forgot to interview anyone outside of an AI cult for this article
thanks! I've been enjoying the weekly threads, feels like they provide an easier way to get involved.
I thought at the end of the article they'd provide a modicum of push back by sharing the perspective of someone outside the cult, but nope, they round it out with a "self-professed doomer" EA, who they introduce as (and only as):
Objection, relevance?
nvm found the relevance, Linkedin tells me he was involved in hosting Lesswrong for 9 years lol
fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.
Bellroy stuff is kind of in my wheelhouse for minimalist manly man stuff; luckily I haven't bought any.
when I asked BasedBeffJezos what I should expect from an e/a future, he replied “welcome to the fantasy zone. get ready !”. it was only then that I realized he had cleverly tricked me into interviewing a standup cabinet of the 1985 Sega arcade hit Space Harrier
I’ve been playing the 32x version!
same! though I was giving the Saturn version a try while writing that post
This journo: "Hmm, a guy that was deeply in this community says it's a fucked up shithole with bad politics. I'm going to ignore that aspect of it and just uncritically platform them wholesale"
But apparently asking a physicist whether these people are all full of shit is too much.