Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 15 hours ago

He doesn't believe in Germ theory. He's utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don't know if he really understands that it's a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago

Had people concern trolling about this guy repeatedly on Reddit. It's like bro he was on the Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list and all but brags about race science at Harvard in his trump-fluffing NYT piece.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's basically the Rationalist story tbh. Read banks, it went right over their head, and now they see hostile Minds around every corner.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine if it was trying to build a feature for a client who needs to look at a demo every time.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

You can definitely learn how to code, I believe in you.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Under no circumstances allow your US Citizen self to be illegally detained by ICE I guess.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

he's got that hybrid vigor

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

From the US department of not beating those allegations.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

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?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Can't people run it locally supposedly?

 

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

 

The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit.

My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️:

CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.

 

Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she's a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire's wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies.

Bonus downplaying of EA's faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being "accused" of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it's not just the cherry on top of a lifetime of Bostrom's work.

 

Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can't decide, but it's a depressing read.

May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.

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