congratulations aella on being the only creature on this planet who's not a strange smirking man i guess!
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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.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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Salamon, Constantin, Piper, and Callard are women. Ozy Brennan and Logan Strohl are AFAB trans or nonbinary. The PSmiths and SMBC are heterosexual couples.
I wonder if Caroline Ellison will show up?
I was referring of course to this vision of hell on their webpage!
I wonder if they've ever experienced any emotion other than smugness.
Truly great snapshot of astral scott right in the middle of smelling his own fart.
what a way to learn that she was already released
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Listing all those people a lot of whom have not mentioned they are coming feels so scummy. Putting https://www.smbc-comics.com/ on the list is bold however.
If I were invited to this conference, I would have an intense "your approval fills me with shame" moment.
It looks like the guests are mostly LW/EA/postrationalist bloggers, Bay Area tech executives like Paul Graham, and wealthy Libertarian pundits like Tyler Cowen. They are trying to recruit some general geeky figures:
- Agnes Callard (a UChicago philosophy professor who has visited Lighthaven before, she left her husband for a grad student and got the student hired by her university. Spent 2021-2025 podcasting with Robin Hanson)
- ccp grey (a pop science YouTuber, no RationalWiki presence but he has posted that he is worried about AI)
- Bret Devereaux of ACOUP (shows no interest! I think he is serious about being a centrist Liberal who would happily shoot slavers with the 16th Maine and say his prayers afterwards)
- Dan Luu (software developer in Vancouver, BC, not SF or Seattle, hosts a critique of HPMOR )
- oktrends (our friends like data and have trouble with dating, and the original OK Cupid blog played with race thinking)
- smbc webcomic
- Tim Urban of Wait but Why, Also present at Hereticon)
- Worm web serial
- xkcd webcomic (really does not seem like someone who would like them)
Does anyone spot any outsiders they are hoping to bring in?
as Soyweiser points out above: noted harsh critic of rationalism and AI (the guy who makes) SMBC is a “bold choice”
surprised that CCP Grey guy is still around - the asshole who refuses to post corrections to factual errors in his infotainment videos? can you imagine a more perfect fit?
re: The Last Psychiatrist, is he a postrationalist? The impression I have always had is that rationalists read HIM, not the other way around. His odious Hunter Thompson impression is more appealing to them than is possible to generate from within the movement, I think
That is just life as a creator who makes meaningful amounts of money (you can't control your fans or prevent them from misreading), but in addition, I think one purpose of these events is to corrupt people. Lobbyists host events in nice hotels with fancy catering for a reason.
Make no mistake: Worm is not a webcomic. It is words. So many fucking words. (I made it about 30% in before realizing I could do literally anything else with my time).
Remember when Scott A was so mad his name was in the NYT he wilded out and got half of HN to cancel their subs? Those were good times, when I wasn't jumpscared by his pasty face on random websites.
I think this is why the guests are listed as blogs not names or handles. Newbies are not supposed to know that many of them have funded or boinked each other.