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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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Your favorite science YouTubers are misleading you about AI — how to spot lies (www.youtube.com)
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A straightforward dismantling of AI fearmongering videos uploaded by Kyle "Science Thor" Hill, Sci "The Fault in our Research" Show, and Kurz "We're Sorry for Summarizing a Pop-Sci Book" Gesagt over the past few months. The author is a computer professional but their take is fully in line with what we normally post here.

I don't have any choice sneers. The author is too busy hunting for whoever is paying SciShow and Kurzgesagt for these videos. I do appreciate that they repeatedly point out that there is allegedly a lot of evidence of people harming themselves or others because of chatbots. Allegedly.

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a big deal about Kurzgesagt being associated with shady rationalist-like nonsense a long time ago? I remember my normie friends being like "what a shame, I thought it was such a good channel"...

Haven't heard about the other two but always happy to discover more popular wrong people to sneer at

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They made a pro-longtermist video in association with open philanthropy a few years back, The Last Human or something like that, the summary was pretty open about the connection.

I don't think the shadiness is specific to rationalism, see also that bizarre KG video claiming it's scientifically impossible to lose weight by exercising that coincided with the height of Ozempic's hype.

edit: The Last Human came out at 2022, the same year the McAskill book arguing longtermism was published, what a coinkidink.