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"The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia ---"

good enough! ship it!

BRB registering KallocAIn as a company

The poster deftly doesn't address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?

This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=u7L6T6uGEkzw9Fzku

The header image is gold.

enjoy crustaceans incorrecting each other about free speech, defamation law etc

https://lobste.rs/s/lxoosd/german_court_ruling_declares_google_s_ai

If LW is a cult, they're doing a terrible job at recruiting:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhrrhTzTeiZ8PzQZn/where-do-young-rationalists-go

some LWer suggested Moskovitz for president a while back

AP: Appeals court upholds FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud conviction

It's been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like "New Wave" and "cyberpunk" were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.

One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it's broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn't have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.

SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so ... chicken and egg?

"It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman"

Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped

https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction

Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn't mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-Singularity Sky.

[1] MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it's not mentioned (also, it's unfortunately not very good)

This is a new method of bootlicking: if you as a FLOSS developer don't use LLMs to fix vulnerabilites identified by LLMs, you're being unethical

https://lobste.rs/c/5toqqs

I'm just going off memory here on Herbert's works, but I re-read a couple of Dune books a few years ago

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Dune-and-Heretics.html

I wrote them before the movies appeared, and I haven't seen any of them. How is the jihad handled there?

Oh yeah, Chapterhouse Dune has way too much Tleilaxu, and also Space Jews.

This all reads as a very elitist and privileged perspective.

Dude look where you’re commenting

I haven't experienced the situation you're describing myself, but it feels very plausible.

Similarly, all developed societies depend on a number of people selflessly working in positions of elected or non-elected authority (local councils, HOAs, school boards) and treating them like people who cannot afford to make any mistakes is not a recipe for increased democratic engagement.

Anyway, so far no-one has commented, negatively or otherwise, and I think most LWers are treating it as harmless fun.

It's not making me any more interested in coming more than 200 feet from any of these people, and neither is this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZKzWgAqWrE2tXrQ/contra-dance-at-lessonline, but maybe that's just me being mean.

Are you worried about AI taking over the world and killing everyone? Fear not, the people who can stop it are collecting hats. Surely everything is under control.

someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:

https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

CW M:tG weirdo Zvi's slobsack + Xhitter references, but he accuses an OpenAI / Palantir-funded PAC boosting a fake "AI doomer" account calling for violence:

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-171-false-flag?open=false#%C2%A7openai-pac-engaged-in-false-flag-advocacy-for-violence