David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoZiz update thread, started 19 Februaryplus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up113
arrow-up113message-squareZiz update thread, started 19 Februaryplus-squarepinDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square26fedilink
scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · 18 hours agoIs Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!plus-squarewww.writingruxandrabio.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up115
arrow-up115external-linkIs Scott and others like him at fault for Trump... no it's the "elitist's" fault!plus-squarewww.writingruxandrabio.comscruiser@awful.systemsEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square19fedilink
<3.@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoEffective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)plus-squarebobjacobs.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up124
arrow-up124external-linkEffective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!)plus-squarebobjacobs.substack.com<3.@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square7fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoHow Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up139
arrow-up139external-linkHow Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square17fedilink
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 7 days agoMoldbug has a sadplus-squarewww.thenerdreich.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up129
arrow-up129external-linkMoldbug has a sadplus-squarewww.thenerdreich.comAllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 7 days agomessage-square31fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoBig Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]plus-squarewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up134
arrow-up134external-linkBig Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]plus-squarewww.404media.coBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square5fedilink
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoScoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up127
arrow-up127message-squareScoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upsetplus-squareBigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square38fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agoHow to explain our very good friends to normal humans?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up123
arrow-up123message-squareHow to explain our very good friends to normal humans?plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square35fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-212 days agoLessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonusplus-squareless.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up116
arrow-up116external-linkLessOnline is a festival celebrating truthseeking and blogging, the totally not race science is just a bonusplus-squareless.onlineDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-212 days agomessage-square21fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoEAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movementplus-squareforum.effectivealtruism.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up140
arrow-up140external-linkEAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movementplus-squareforum.effectivealtruism.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agoMoldy's famous now! yaaaaaayplus-squaretime.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up114
arrow-up114external-linkMoldy's famous now! yaaaaaayplus-squaretime.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square2fedilink
jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-214 days agoRenowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanficplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up130
arrow-up130external-linkRenowned Tumblr folklore expert Strange Æons covers Yud's Potter Fanficplus-squarewww.youtube.comjaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-214 days agomessage-square16fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 18 days agoit's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"plus-squarewww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up110
arrow-up110external-linkit's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"plus-squarewww.ft.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square4fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days ago"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge]plus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up116
arrow-up116external-link"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge]plus-squarewww.theverge.comBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agoRace science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsplus-squarewww.uncorrelated.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up169
arrow-up169external-linkRace science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestorsplus-squarewww.uncorrelated.xyzDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square43fedilink
o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agoThe TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligenceplus-squarefirstmonday.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up121
arrow-up121external-linkThe TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligenceplus-squarefirstmonday.orgo7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoTom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts nowplus-squarewww.transgendermap.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up128
arrow-up128external-linkTom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts nowplus-squarewww.transgendermap.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agobroken containment warningplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up118
arrow-up118message-squarebroken containment warningplus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square16fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoYudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up152
arrow-up152message-squareYudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square56fedilink
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months ago"Tracing Woodgrains" starts a eugenics-oriented education policy "think-tank"plus-squarewww.educationprogress.orgexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up144
arrow-up144external-link"Tracing Woodgrains" starts a eugenics-oriented education policy "think-tank"plus-squarewww.educationprogress.orgTinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink