Sadly I think the popularization does owe a lot to the intermediate stage where 4chan started calling mass entertainment media "goyslop," but even the Protocols types switched to tacking on specific descriptors before it made it out into the mainstream and got picked up as a term for genAI output.
Kind of fascinated by how this guy has gone into reddit threads about this to complain about being bullied, including complaining that people are sharing this screenshot with his full name and face unredacted. Buddy, I don't know what to tell you about who's responsible for that one.
I'm not the one moving them, go look at the actual kinds of statements the PR guys make about destroying humanity.
They're both projects moving away from Unity and to something more tailorable to their needs at a lower level, so it's not all that strange, really.
The definition of "existential risk" in question is specifically cult jargon for "could singlehandedly end human civilization and/or the entire species." Autonomous weapon systems, though horrifying and unconscionable, are just fine by most "x-risk" types as long as they're only used against enemies of the state instead of enemies of Skynet.
There was a study that stopped checking for rapid development at 25. They didn't show a "significant freeze" at 25, they just didn't gather any data after that.
Hasn't most of that automated terminal guidance been directed at people and tanks in open fields, away from buildings?
I think this is just the standard 4chan use of both terms, so kind of yes but filtered through years of shitposting.
He's a provocateur who believes in the value of extremism for its own sake. Getting as many people as possible to find his politics offensive and argue with each other in the comments is the point.
I forget which convention it is exactly, but I think it's the one that goes M(ille), MM(illion) instead of Kilo, Mega...
Rationalism really is just Scientology with a guy who wants to be a harem anime protagonist instead of an admiral.
There are too many of these companies to remember at this point, to be fair. I keep getting things mixed up with SoftBank.