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ironically many "WW2 enjoyers" are big fans of German hardware, uniforms and tactics...

Tired: AI

Wired (and delicious): A1

To (mis)quote one of my favorite bands

Meat's just meat it's all born dying
Some is tender some is tough
Somebody's gotta mop up the AI
Somebody's gotta mop up the blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTPQPwDM_A

"I no longer believe that effective altruism and democracy are compatible".

Anywhoo, did not know the scaling of voting power to karma before. Interesting.

At the start they state

The disappointment of imminent death is all the more crushing because just a few years ago researchers announced breakthrough discoveries that suggested [existing, adult] humans could have healthspans of thousands of years. To drop the analogy, here I'm talking about my transhumanist beliefs. The laws of physics don't demand that humans slowly decay and die at eighty. It is within our engineering prowess to defeat death, and until recently I thought we might just do that, and I and my loved ones would live for millennia, becoming post-human superbeings.

This is, frankly, bonkers. I'd rate the following in descending order of probability

1. worldwide societal collapse due to climate change
2. we develop an AI that will kill us all for unspecified reasons
3. we establish viable self-sustaining societies outside the limits of Earth
4. we develop techniques that allow everyone to live effectively forever

If the first happens, it removes the material requirements for the latter things to happen. This is an extreme form of "denial of the flesh", the inability to realize that without food or water no-one will be working on AI or life extension tech.

Evgeny Morozov: The New Legislators of Silicon Valley

Some idiot on LW still thinks the same way:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LJinTACnzpCeso6KQ/misinformation-is-the-default-and-information-is-the

I selected and worded these suspicions to sound more like things a Democrat might say, because I’m trying to persuade Democrats that conservative misinformation draws from reasonable attitudes.

One was poisoning the coffee, another one the cocaine. One was trying to electrocute him in the pool, on getting the chandelier to fall on him and so on.

Hitman 4

It's still on the front page, almost 300 comments. Haven't time to review them all but doesn't look like the promptfondlers have the upper hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

Found on HN:

[Working with AI is] An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

25 upvotes, no comments yet..

oh god has he spawned????

I'm thinking they hired Jar-Jar Binks to the team.

"God I wish I was an AI so i didn't have to do this"

Shorter Moldbug: I am smarter than the framers of the US Constitution. Also, those traitors were wrong.

The comments are ... "a hoot"

I would bet pretty hard on option #3. The older the parents are at the time of conception, the lower the quality of their gametes, which can translate into various negative health and cognitive effects on the child.

combines ageism, ableism ,and homophobia into one neat package

Obligatory Colm Tóibín: Among the Flutterers

LW: "being a younger brother makes you gay, the Catholic hierarchy is full of younger brothers, ergo 80% of the Vatican is gay"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybwqL9HiXE8XeauPK/how-gay-is-the-vatican

I used to work in a contact center adjacent industry. There are essentially no margins in the business. I really fail to see what value CapG can extract from companies like Teleperformance who are already pared down to the bone.

It's possible that the most popular fora for discussions of the other topics were drowned out by AI doomerism and the people who are interested in them simply left.

Kokotajlo is a new name to me. What's his background? Prolific LW poster?