GorillasAreForEating

joined 2 years ago
 

Just for the record, I'm not suicidal.

 

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

[–] 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.

 

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

[–] 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.

 

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.

 

From Sam Altman's blog, pre-OpenAI

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

update: Verdon is now accusing another AI researcher of exposing him: https://twitter.com/GillVerd/status/1730796306535514472

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] 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

 

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.”