deborah@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoRationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus allplus-squareforum.inaturalist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkRationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus allplus-squareforum.inaturalist.orgdeborah@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square14linkfedilink
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareCasey Newton drinks the kool-aidplus-squareTinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square6linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareMass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for onceplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square14linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months 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-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
arrow-up1103arrow-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 · 6 months agomessage-square57linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agowhat the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)plus-squarewww.thewrap.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkwhat the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)plus-squarewww.thewrap.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square17linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoSon! Are you in there building God from neural networks?plus-squarewww.smbc-comics.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkSon! Are you in there building God from neural networks?plus-squarewww.smbc-comics.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square3linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoTPOT hits the big time!plus-squaresfstandard.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkTPOT hits the big time!plus-squaresfstandard.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square11linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoThe dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever sawplus-squarethepointmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkThe dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever sawplus-squarethepointmag.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square6linkfedilink
swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-26 months agoIn which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselvesplus-squarestatic1.squarespace.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkIn which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselvesplus-squarestatic1.squarespace.comswlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-26 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-26 months 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-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-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-26 months agomessage-square27linkfedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-26 months agoThe Professor Assigns Their Own Book — But Now With a Tech Bubble in the Middle Stepplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareThe Professor Assigns Their Own Book — But Now With a Tech Bubble in the Middle Stepplus-squareblakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-26 months agomessage-square13linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months ago2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategyplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-square2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategyplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square4linkfedilink
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months agoThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkThat Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audienceplus-squaremedium.comGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square15linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1message-squareDoes AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareLessWrong House Style (2023)plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square39linkfedilink
GorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-26 months agoIn which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodplus-squarenicholasdecker.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkIn which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodplus-squarenicholasdecker.substack.comGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-26 months agomessage-square29linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoPeter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital ageplus-squareboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkPeter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital ageplus-squareboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square9linkfedilink
J Lou@mastodon.social · 7 months agoThe predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruismplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareThe predictably grievous harms of Effective Altruismplus-squareJ Lou@mastodon.social · 7 months agomessage-square12linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoAnthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so muchplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so muchplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoElizabeth Sandifer: Wednesdayplus-squarewww.patreon.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
arrow-up113arrow-down1external-linkElizabeth Sandifer: Wednesdayplus-squarewww.patreon.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square0linkfedilink