Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:
Couldn't a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they've founded thousands of hospitals and such. They're very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?
Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?
some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.
I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.
Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.
Aren't windmills traditionally hoisted into the air, whereas whales typically live in an underwater habitat?
I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.
Men will literally devote their lives to becoming scifi Cassandra instead of going to therapy.
End of all value is different from earth go explody. They're fine with earth go explody as long as there's a second, slightly larger earth to replace it with more value.
Least reprehensible Gamer take.
I just can't imagine the board saying he lied to them unless they have some way to back it up. If they made that up couldn't they be on the wrong end of a wrongful termination lawsuit?
He's lately been giving in to the urges more and more:
Slurs are fine, actually.
Expansion of the 'not provably not correct' eugenics thing into a massive TLDR that I ain't reading