1y ago

shocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on main

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Alliance for the Future director Brian Chau has history of racist, sexist remarks

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That Floyd tweet was fantastically dim-witted, so much more so than I expected from the headline. This unaltered video of a man's death is a deepfake not because it was doctored, nor because it's misleading, but because it gave progressive beliefs I don't like. And all that was sandwiched between an AI plug. His point was that AI would somehow shit all over the libs and he doesn't explain how, not even a little bit.
How do these weird ass neolib AI freakazoids keep getting cited in mainstream sites?
- Also he used to be u/imaxblue. 3 years ago today this man was making 2 sentence horror stories, posting pictures of his dratini plush, and speaking in uwu xd talk. All while decrying wokism on his substack.
  The craziest part is that this is just every tenth guy on the web right now. Man I used to be terminally online, but every time I see the newest micro celebrity I feel like I'm in freak central.
  Proof (he links his substack): https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/kl4oz0/well_yes_i_am_an_expert_in_epidemiology/gh6vfiz/?context=3
  
  uwu smol bean race science, i thought that was TPOT
  
  Yeah that was my takeaway as well. "Oh right, so he's like every one of them." Imagine this being your normal, god that's not healthy.
- holy fuck it’s so much stupider than I was expecting too, and I was expecting some real stupid shit from one of the big e/a guys given their usual output
  and of course my three least favorite guys know Brian well:
  Chau also frequently platforms controversial figures on his podcast, including Curtis Yarvin, who has said neo-Nazis’ hearts are “in the right place”, and Richard Hanania, who recently referred to black people as “animals”. Chau called Hanania a “brilliant analyst and policy thinker” and Yarvin’s episode “among the best”.
  Chau's Alliance for the Future is closely linked to the “effective accelerationism”, or e/acc, movement, a group which opposes attempts at regulating AI. The organisation counts e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon as a board member; Verdon, who regularly tweets about being a conduit for a “thermodynamic god”, has said that he is indifferent to the idea of human extinction.
amolitor on twitter:
lesswrong is the velvet underground of AI idiocy. very few people bought any of the albums but every single one of those started a think tank.
- Well that’s a haunting thought
  Starts all casual and then suckerpunches you
  
  this song's called "adderall", it's about adderall

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