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Here’s my cocktail suggestion:

50 Shades (Sam Bankman) Fried:

Ingredients:

• 50 different liquors/liqueurs, as many different densities and colours as possible

Equipment:

• Transparent cylindrical urn with spigot

Steps:

1. Sort the ingredients in decreasing order or liquid density.
2. Pour 1/50th of the container capacity of each liquid in order into container, slowly and carefully to retain layers.

(Do not actually make this)

morality of an anime villain

Plenty of anime villains would be insulted by this.

IANAL: His defense team must truly suck ass. To let the prosecution build the case that he is essentially amoral and profit driven is just baffling. To let SBF speak in any capacity at all is more baffling. The only way they could bungle this further is if they asked for more time than the prosecution was asking for.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/25/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-multi-billion-dollar-fraud

SBF sentence gets announced this week. Over/under on 15/45/75 years?

“I trained my model on AO3, why aren’t we funding a cure for Hanahaki???”

Sovereign citizen energy.

Can’t wait for an AI crank to demand cancer treatment because Siri looked sideways at a blurry photo of a lump on their butt. Can’t wait for a Scott to write a script/dialogue tree for getting DIY chemo kits.

A friend that wants you to have an aggressive brain tumour to make an AI look good is no friend at all

Oh yeah sorry, sometimes I forget that board members and execs are the core contributors to human innovation, and that Google spends all its money on hiring the best and brightest think tank people. It’s why they only make good and ethical decisions that no one gets mad at, ever. /s

To be completely fair it appears he has experience in medical research, with some publications in the 80’s. That being said his LI plots his trajectory from just some guy to thinker tanker grifter guy.

The path to hell is paved with liberal markets.

His LinkedIn has no background in tech beyond serving on the board of google health. He’s essentially just some guy!

My initial reaction was essentially a mix of “sorry to this man” and “well I don’t really expect psychology today to publish anything approaching meaningful on tech/ai” so I wanted to see if those reactions were justified. Well…

This makes PT look like a total rag. The author, John Nosta, bills himself as “The World’s Leading Innovation Theorist and Keynote Speaker” which really just sounds like “lecture circuit grifter” to me. Let’s take a look at the rest of his front page:

STRATEGIST

Driving change that is changing the world. John’s informed voice has become a beacon of insight to help dissect and define innovation in health, medicine, and technology.

INNOVATOR

Not just a simple observer, John is directly engaged with top companies, thinkers and initiatives. His perspective is from the inside out and provides an “insiders” view of a complex and changing world.

THOUGHT LEADER

John is consistently ranked among the top names in health technology and innovation. Beyond simply an influencer, he is also defined as “most admired” to “top disruptor” in technology, life sciences and medicine.

So yeah if you asked chatGPT to come up with the profile for an AI lecture circuit grifter, it’d probably look like the above.

Looking through his contributions to PT you might think he is just recycling armchair AI philosophy to make a quick buck and honestly I’m having a hard time thinking otherwise.

The least interesting member of the gruber family, they wrote him out of die hard 4.

FWIW as far as I can tell, bears are not native to Honduras

How many victory points is that

I 100% really did not intend for the name to work so well with that context but am once again thankful for all the gifts it brings.

jurisdictional polymath

To borrow a term from the podcast "Scam Goddess", a "serial entrepreneur", which in turn is just a scam artist.

Some explanation, please!

Apple fanboys: "Apple has a singular, perfect vision for how people should interact with technology. I would get all my sensory organs replaced by Apple peripherals if I could. They should be allowed to trample us."

NB: apple has trampled over me but not my spirit

Truly a gift that shall keep on giving

This is fundamentally a part of any kind of race science or racism.

And fascism! Or any discriminatory -ism, up to and including capitalism.

In this article I’ll be making a distinction between what I call Hard WN and Soft WN.

In this article I will mostly be describing why I left Soft WN.

oh dawg