Manages posting for @BarleyDog
Ongoing projects include:
#BulletinBoardNonsense
#music squares
#unabridged thoughts
Seasonal projects include:
#A Feast For Janus
#The Carnival Of The Animals
#Look Sharp!
#Poisson d'Avril
#Up Springs A Forest
#Yonders Wild
#There Is Only One City
#Mensis Geogustus
#Ship's Timber September
nothing for October, too #scary
#Night Orb November
#Red Ember December
Who else on here a """rationalism""" / """effective altruism"""" hater?
Norman Rockefeller? More like Abnorman Jerkefeller
Ayn Rand? More like Yawn Rand.
Peter Singer? More like Pee Terse Dinner.
William MacAskill? More like Wedditor MacAsksfordonationsfrombillionaires.
Real hater here 👋
It's a stupid nerd cult that could quickly devolve into something extremely dangerous
Oh it already is something extremely dangerous, being another mask of the cult of wealth.
I hate them so much. religion for people with too much money and like to think they're smart
effective altruisim is like carbon offsets for the rationalist's soul.. indulgences so the roko's basilisk computer doesn't put you in logic hell
Recycled theology in the cloak of ethics - for people who flunked ethics twice and have trouble inferring context on the side of a cereal box.
I can go on. I lived in the Bay Area long enough to develop a truly rich contempt for these people.
Dumbasses all of them honestly. The fact that they keep trying to tie LLMs and neural nets to general artificial intelligence is laughable.
Oh yes. Tried it a decade ago, mostly because at the time it was the only thing resembling a community of autistic polyam folks (I suspect we weren't the only one who did it for that reason). Also at the time many of our friends were in it or adjacent to it.
However, it is obvious it's just, for lack of a better word, a cult of cryptofascist neo-yuppie tech bros cloaked behind a veneer of science with a collective savior complex.
It has the same memetic flavor as the unexamined racism within the software dev community, only amplified.
