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Association Opposing Greed and Idiocy.

Doesn’t lend itself to snickering. Gets the point across. Hard to turn into “well actually the real greed is sharing”.

This article has an astonishing amount of almost-self-awareness, where only one vital step is missing in order to answer all their questions.

There’s the kind of regular who’s been thinking seriously about AI safety and alignment since pre-2022, who have passing to intimate familiarity with the funding ecosystem, the Sequences, and various conferences that happen at Lighthaven. Let’s call them rationalists.

… Let’s not, because a bunch of us here fit all those descriptions, yet are clearly not “rationalists”. The way that they use that term makes it synonymous with Orthodox (“right practices/thinking”).

Every competent apocalyptic cult leader knows that committing to hard dates is wrong because if the grift survives that long, you’ll need to come up with a new story.

Luckily, these folks have spicy autocomplete to do their thinking!

I was going to make a comparison to Elron, but… oh, too late.

Convincing people in San Francisco Bay Area that you’re about to invent Star Trek technology is basically the national pastime there.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Upvote.