Evinceo

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Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

(Teeth shine audibly)

Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Literally BioShock.

Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chewing gum fans may want a word.

Let rationalists put GMO bacteria in your mouth in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I like that instead of a study to back up their project, they have... one guy! Who tried it a month ago!

Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

I lol'd at:

What are they doing with all that money?

¯\(ツ)/¯

"it’s like the stages of a rocket ship and racism was the first stage" in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
former OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear had a cameo in HPMOR in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

No way his OpenAI position ends up on his resume.

former OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear had a cameo in HPMOR in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
To what extent did Eliezer Yudkowsky invent the Effective Altruist movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

This is gonna be really helpful next time someone tells me straight up that EA and Rationalist are totally different things and just overlap by coincidence.

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Getting Gebru in there would be fucking hilarious, I can't believe Wired asked her. Not loving that they're conflating her with EAs though.

If you want to annoy an AI doomer ask why they don't support Gebru.

the adults did not like these uppity EAs toying around with the share price in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

GitHub doesn't need to take away the GPL, it's got Copilot to launder any code you like.

It is very weird to see a generation of people too young to remember Vista grow up and not heed the warnings. But I think that it's also a case of kids getting into it via Paul Graham and wanting to start companies instead of getting into it via Stallman and having computers instead of friends.

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