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minus-squareGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoOld news obviously, but I think it’s worth documenting the organizations and dollar amounts even Steven Pinker is coming out against EA now: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1732114240666743102
minus-squareJohnBierce@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoEven Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.
minus-squarelocallynonlinear@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoIs this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? Pinker’s naive optimism bubble, is not exactly a perspective I 100% endorse either but hey 🤷
minus-squareGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoI intensely dislike him. I’d say his views rhyme with those of the rationalists, so to speak, which is why I think it’s noteworthy that even a guy like him is criticizing EA now.
minus-squareShitgenstein1@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago Is this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? More like a ‘friend of my enemy has become their enemy is funny’ situation.
Old news obviously, but I think it’s worth documenting the organizations and dollar amounts
even Steven Pinker is coming out against EA now: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1732114240666743102
Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.
Is this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? Pinker’s naive optimism bubble, is not exactly a perspective I 100% endorse either but hey 🤷
I intensely dislike him. I’d say his views rhyme with those of the rationalists, so to speak, which is why I think it’s noteworthy that even a guy like him is criticizing EA now.
More like a ‘friend of my enemy has become their enemy is funny’ situation.