deborah@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoRationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus allplus-squareforum.inaturalist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square13fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 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-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 8 days agomessage-square57fedilink
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squareTinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square6fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agowhat the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)plus-squarewww.thewrap.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoSon! Are you in there building God from neural networks?plus-squarewww.smbc-comics.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoTPOT hits the big time!plus-squaresfstandard.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoThe dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever sawplus-squarethepointmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-211 days agoIn which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselvesplus-squarestatic1.squarespace.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-212 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-square28fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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-212 days agomessage-square28fedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-213 days agoThe Professor Assigns Their Own Book — But Now With a Tech Bubble in the Middle Stepplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 17 days ago2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategyplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-square2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategyplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square3fedilink
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agoThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square15fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 21 days agoDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square9fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 23 days agoLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square39fedilink
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-228 days agoIn which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodplus-squarenicholasdecker.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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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-up11arrow-down10
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J Lou@mastodon.social · 1 month agoThe predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruismplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agoElizabeth Sandifer: Wednesdayplus-squarewww.patreon.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkElizabeth Sandifer: Wednesdayplus-squarewww.patreon.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
