GorillasAreForEating

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Kathy Forth made a facebook post about miricult.com the day before her death (www.facebook.com)
 

Just for the record, I'm not suicidal.

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That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audience (medium.com)
In which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater good in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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In which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater good (nicholasdecker.substack.com)
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From the author of "EAs should probably focus on recruiting the ultra-wealthy"

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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
 

The article doesn't mention SSC directly, but I think it's pretty obvious where this guy is getting his ideas

GabAI system prompt leaked in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When they made an alt-right equivalent of Patreon they called it "Hatreon". This stuff is like a game to them.

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'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes' (web.archive.org)
 

An old post from Caroline Ellison's tumblr, since deleted.

The current TPOT implosion in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Apparently Aella and Robin Hanson showed up at vibecamp too, I guess it's a big deal for the greater rationalist community.

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"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote (www.lesswrong.com)
 

I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don't think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.

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"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions." (blog.samaltman.com)
 

From Sam Altman's blog, pre-OpenAI

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's like when he wore a fedora and started talking about 4chan greentexts in his first major interview. He just cannot help himself.

P.S. The New York Times recently listed "internet philosopher" Eliezer Yudkowsky as one of the of the major figures in the modern AI movement, this is the picture they chose to use.

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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update: Verdon is now accusing another AI researcher of exposing him: https://twitter.com/GillVerd/status/1730796306535514472

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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I highly suspect the voice analysis thing was just to confirm what they already knew, otherwise it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack.

People on twitter have been speculating that someone who knew him simply ratted him out.

Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Our goal is really to increase the scope and scale of civilization as measured in terms of its energy production and consumption,” h

old and busted: paperclip maximizer

new hotness: entropy maximizer

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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? (www.forbes.com)
 

At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” ...

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” ...

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”