

it’s listed author, David J. Temple, is a collective pseudonym used by several authors including by Marc Gafni, a disgraced New Age spiritual guru who’s been accused of sexually exploiting his followers
why does shit always have to turn out weird


it’s listed author, David J. Temple, is a collective pseudonym used by several authors including by Marc Gafni, a disgraced New Age spiritual guru who’s been accused of sexually exploiting his followers
why does shit always have to turn out weird


what is with the “uhm actually its ephebophilia and not pedophilia” thing?? (Yud’s done it too in a weird ass post that was highlighted here) you’re still having sex with someone who is still legally considered a child as a middle-aged man. jesus


“It’s horrifying to see normal people you dance with turn into nazis so easily.”
…you’re calling the people who hate the billionaires nazis? have you seen what the average billionaire has gotten up to recently???


update to this thread, Yud says he does not agree with the positions as Dembara stated them the post also got taken down by the OP apparently.
Yud didn’t provide any elaboration on what “victimful crime” means though, I was tempted to ask him myself, or get someone else to ask for me, guess I can’t anymore


Yeah, I can’t hold it against anyone for feeling scared and overwhelmed with what’s happening in America right now and fleeing. Hope he finds happiness soon


funny how all the tech CEOs are the ones who are saying in the next couple years and all the researchers give 10-20 year timelines. surely this does not mean anything about the reliability of the companies and their claims


Anthropic doesn’t actually give a shit about any of the human harms created by the technology
but yeah it sounds like they got overwhelmed by all the shit happening in the world (there is a lot of shit happening in the world, especially in America) and left for their own mental health’s sake


I though Kurzweil’s latest singularity date was 2032 or smth


with the current state of billionaires that was to be expected



Eliezer, I would be very careful about talking about age of consent if I were you


they actually meant “tip your landlord into the nearest garbage bin”


bootlicking billionaires when they’re the main ones supporting the thing you say is an existential threat is definitely a choice. rationalists seem to be getting more and more mask off in the face of the trump administration


yeah lmfao it was bad. I thoroughly enjoyed titotal’s takedown of that graph. I can’t believe the documentary versions of that paper on youtube have millions of views and people eating it up
Those comment sections are gonna be a joy when 2027 and 2028 roll around


gag. going full mask off now


I took a look at the “AGI 0.5-2 years away” quote, and he said he’s using the term in the “pre-2020” way, where we would of “debated whether or not Claude Opus is AGI or not” so not exactly robot god, but he’s still expecting LLMs to be able to act as advanced secretaries for the government. I have no clue what he means by “cluster” and if he was being literal with the molecular stuff or that’s just figurative language
Still stupid tho


very late response but this is very funny because Yud made a post about AGI being a meaningless term and you shouldn’t say things like “we have achieved AGI!” and then he turns around and posts this….why??? pick a lane man


now that is interesting


that one METR graph was also a big part of the AI 2027 “prediction”


less non-existent money going into OpenAI is always something I’ll take
in follow-up posts he talks about how he’s broadly in favour of job automation, but has doubts our current government would be able to do that without fucking everyone over, he specified that “if it were a 1950’s government and congress I’d be more hopeful”
…so instead of proposing a solution like “protest against this” or “vote people in power who actually are responsible” he jumps to “your daughter should give up her career and become a sex worker for AI company shareholders”
with the Epstein shitstorm still raging, I would not be saying a damn thing about young women being sex workers for rich and powerful dudes