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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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Pivot to AI: Replacing Sam Altman with a very small shell script - our writeup (davidgerard.co.uk)

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we're pretty sure he really did just get kicked for not being enough of an AI doomsday cultist

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

A boardroom coup by the rationalist cultists is quite plausible, as well as being very funny. Rationalists’ chronic inability to talk like regular humans may even explain the statement calling Altman a liar. It’s standard for rationalists to call people who don’t buy their pitch liars.

So what from normal people would be an accusation of corporate war crimes is, from rationalists, just how they talk about the outgroup of non-rationalists. They assume non-believers are evil.

this makes way more sense than any of the wild theories the orange site was coming up with yesterday. I’m torn between hoping rationalist infighting and a potential lawsuit from Altman ruins OpenAI and fearing what a well-funded (for now at least) corporation that buys into Eliezer “bomb the datacenters” Yudkowsky’s cult from the top down is capable of, especially with how vocal yud has been lately over his dissatisfaction with his limited geopolitical influence, and all the right-wing shit he’s been sprinkling into his Twitter rants