Read the comments against my better judgement. Couple of ‘erm ackshuallys’ and then one comment from a self-described ‘former rationalist’ that starts out reasonable enough…then nosedives into something vile (for the record I’m not talking about their complains about how mean Scoot was)

When you definitely understand the anti-AI coalition you want to build

Turns out ‘Grey Tribe’ was a glorified NPC Wojak But Rationalist^TM

Dissident RIght

An Oxymoron If There Ever Was One

New xAI employee just dropped

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Good News, Everyone! Longtime Dimes Square hangout Kiki’s has been shut down - due to nonpayment of taxes (some allegations of wage theft too?)

I’m at a bar trying to watch the Knicks, and there’s someone 2 seats over from me very loudly talking to their date about AI with a lot of LessWrong-coded talking points. For the love of Jalen Brunson just let me watch the fucking game

URL Typo - fixed it

Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream

oh boohoo Beff let me play a sad song for you on the world’s smallest violin

Somebody check if Sam’s got a pied-a-terre in NYC that’s gonna be taxed under this new proposal

Their Branding Guidelines have several logos - including ones where the 7 doesn’t accidentally form a Wolfsangel/Ger-Rune/Lightening Bolt type of shape.

These AI orgs don’t get the benefit of the doubt (FYI on further investigation this looks like a Saudi outfit. Not that they’re any better, mind you)

Trump giving a speech at some TESCREAL-coded nonprofit that’s got some…interesting design in their logo

Waitwaitwait

I just learned these people aren’t talking about Computer Numerical Control

Pass the brain bleach pls

Palmer Lucky Wants YOU 🫵 To Die For His Waifus

Bonus Sneer from Adam Johnson

Tudeh are western stooges

Moldbug 🤝 Iranian Government

Scratch a Moldbug and find a neocon

That cuts both ways, you just need to be the last person in the room to speak with Trump

Looking at the bloodthirsty freaks he’s put in charge of our military / intelligence / diplomatic apparatus, and I don’t like them odds

That’s cute, how about you find me a source that isn’t a spooky blob think tank?

Or better yet, enlist and we can rid the world of another Sam Harris fanboy

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. Sam “No It Won’t” Harris

On a semi-adjacent note I came across an attorney who helped to establish and run the Department of Homeland Security (under Bush AND Trump 1)

Who wants you to know he’s ENRAGED. And EMBARRASSED. How the American Schutzstaffel is doing Schutzstaffel things

He also wants you to know he’s Jewish (so am I, and I know our history enough that Homeland Security always had ‘Blood and Soil’ connotations you fucking shande)