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when people do stuff like dismissing x-risk because their top Google search result pointed them at RationalWiki, what exactly was the proper non-free-speech-limiting solution to this problem?

How can we leverage the monopoly of violence of the state to promote our religious views?

Inside baseball, and I don't really have a dog in this fight, but LW is crowing over a legal loss for RationalWiki

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KW5tjMmTqsoRa6zrd/pablo-s-shortform?commentId=wB9jcCPrXzNCLCQXL

They link to a TracingWoodgrain(!) tweet which is basically just a screenshot of a talk page

https://xcancel.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1913717061626347642

I don't know the significance of this, if any. I don't recognize the names of any of the plaintiffs(?) in the screenshot, so I find it a bit amusing that probably the only google juice they had were RW.

YIL there was a right-wing antisemitic US general called Moseley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley

Nominative determinism?

You still can't be an outright Nazi without people getting mad at you. Obviously unacceptable.

TIL Richard fucking Hanania is a Rationalist, at least according to this excrescence from LW

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tKhbDBkstMJuBv7jg/three-months-in-evaluating-three-rationalist-cases-for-trump

The left-wing monoculture catastrophically damaged institutional integrity when public-health officials lied during the pandemic and when bureaucrats used threats and intimidation to censor speech on Facebook and Twitter and elsewhere—in the long-term this could move the country toward the draconian censorship regimes, restrictions on political opposition, and unresponsiveness to public opinion that we see today in England, France, and Germany.[1]

Yeah I'm sure trying to dictate to Harvard who they can hire and what courses they can teach is not leading to a "draconian censorship regime"

[1] to be clear this is attributed to Richard Ngo, not Hanania

JZW link but meat is a 404 article, don't wanna bypass their paywall

Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on "college protesters," "radicalized" political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers [...]

Eminently punchable face

I got it from a comment here, apparently some pie in the sky charity needs more money

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HL7zzZhCR59CCntpB/allfed-emergency-appeal-help-us-raise-usd800-000-to-avoid

His name is Scott.

Oldie but goldie LW:

Who should we prioritize saving from a global catastrophe. Obviously AI safety researchers

not every programmer posts to social media...

Not sure why anyone thought CS as a community can "save us". It's just as likely to be red/black-pilled (gold/black-pilled?) as any other heavily male tech adjacent community. The idea that nerds should be politically liberal because they were bullied in 80 high-school comedies is ludicrous.

“The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid.”

AGI is just around the corner guys

The fact this commenter doesn't mention the absolute fuckton of machining videos on Youtube tells me they're just talking out of their ass.

(not that forcing those into LLM slop would help but a hypothetical AGI would learn a lot)

Also

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class tensions between the automated and non-automated. Instead, he predicts that nearly all jobs will be automated simultaneously, putting everyone "in the same boat."

Dario is delusional. We don't even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

LessWronger puts in the work and determines that LLMs can't spacially vizualize for shit, comments are like "well you're prompting it wrong" (paraphrased) as well as "why not pay experiences machinists to videotape what they're doing os their work can be automated"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r3NeiHAEWyToers4F/frontier-ai-models-still-fail-at-basic-physical-tasks-a#comments

The article itself is worth reading for some insights in the challenges of using current "AI" (LLMs) to work in the real world.

"We convinced the dumbest people in the country that our made-up problems were real, and now we have a sad because they took us seriously."

so following this "logic", the problem for the "Deutsch" is that there is no flavor of Jews willing to "align" with them?

Whose fault is that, motherfuckers?

Like everything Yud it’s always dumber than you think.

Interesting that the artist/LLM rendered his physique in a manly, superhero style but kept (or inserted) a lazy eye.

Someone more versed in Japanese will have to translate the SFX for me. I don't think it's an eager heartbeat but it would be fun if it was .

I found it too, it makes the point that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong in attcking other countries, stealing their products, and enslaving their people" is an argument Putin could have made.