deborah@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoRationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus allplus-squareforum.inaturalist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square14fedilink
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squareTinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoMangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"plus-squarewww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
arrow-up1103arrow-down1external-linkMangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"plus-squarewww.nbcnews.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square57fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agowhat the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)plus-squarewww.thewrap.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoSon! Are you in there building God from neural networks?plus-squarewww.smbc-comics.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoTPOT hits the big time!plus-squaresfstandard.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoThe dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever sawplus-squarethepointmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-212 days agoIn which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselvesplus-squarestatic1.squarespace.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-213 days agoEliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareEliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a real e/acc"plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-213 days agomessage-square27fedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-215 days agoThe Professor Assigns Their Own Book — But Now With a Tech Bubble in the Middle Stepplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 18 days ago2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategyplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 21 days agoThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
arrow-up128arrow-down1external-linkThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square15fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 22 days agoDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1message-squareDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square9fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 24 days agoLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square39fedilink
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-229 days agoIn which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodplus-squarenicholasdecker.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoPeter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital ageplus-squareboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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J Lou@mastodon.social · 1 month agoThe predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruismplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareThe predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruismplus-squareJ Lou@mastodon.social · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoAnthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so muchplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoElizabeth Sandifer: Wednesdayplus-squarewww.patreon.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
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