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We used to be disgusted
Now we try to be amused

maybe that’s more for this site

Per contemptum ad astra.

I am not saying it’s all bad, I’m saying there’s a tiny amount of good.

Also, from the piece

It’s very uncharacteristic for modern art museums and the commentariat to not engage with the sexual themes or undertones with works on display, they’re not exactly prudish institutions!

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this is literally the first art show I’ve been to in my life that was prestigious enough that there is coverage and discourse about it.

ok then

So there are 2 ways to look at this.

Scenario 1: EA is like the early Christian church in Rome. It’s radically different from the existing norms but is quickly gaining adherents. Its beliefs are weird - give up riches now for great rewards later. Embrace humility and subservience, not power. Belief is decentralized, not imposed from above. As the Church grows, more and more elites join in, and it gradually takes over the existing structures.

Scenario 2: EA is a like a very rich, very eccentric person looking to donate their money but have some weird hangups.

Scenario one requires a compelling story that makes prospective converts believe and wholly commit to the cause. For the Christian church, it was the literaly promise of eternal life, once Christ returned (and he would, soon). EA has that promise too but it’s muted and it’s kinda theologically backwards to Christianity- instead of the Devil/your own sinful nature trying to stop you reaching paradise[1], you have to defeat the Devil (rampant AI) to reach it yourself.

The second scenario is the most likely, and the most likely effect is that grifters / “consultants” who are good at playing along with the weird beliefs will be able to mirror the belief system, pocket a large amount of the money on tap, and nothing much will happen.

[1] although I believe the idea of the Devil and original sin developed much later

so how has that been working out for you so far “jenn”?

OK so I was a bit unfair on OP

she’s got a weird blend of stuff on her site: https://jenn.site/ Her recollection of her closeted dad is quite moving, but there’s an awful lot of Rationalist virtue-signalling.

Yeah, I landed on https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk/ and god it’s so much more professional and action-y compared to literally all the stuff on LW.

But maybe one day we will see a similar site for the shrimps.

of note is that you can without loss of generality replace “donkey sanctuary” with “dog/cat/<more popular pet> sanctuary”, but I guess donkeys are both rarer, more ridiculous, and probably more Democrat than other pets.

At the local AI safety co-working space

ok this is gonna be a doozy

pretty sure David is on some very cursed mailing lists

wait so this is a separate “AI hacked and escaped” than the ones already hyped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta???

if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat

also the probality we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that’s not been scrubbed is very close to 1

Previously our lead funder was the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund.

Gemini please generate a word salad fund name

Greg Bear’s Hull Zero Three depicts a generation ship that’s

some LWer suggested Moskovitz for president a while back

check out this beaut it has subsections and a folded “spoiler” section https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HaH9mTdKt8pcNAtYn/comment-on-banning-said-achmiz?commentId=kEsLavWGNtkrqaAY2

don’t recognize commenter but they seem to be a big cheese in the rat sphere

The normal way for people like Achmiz and Davis to reconcile their differences with a mod team is to set up their own forum, with hookers and beer, and entice the audience thither. But they both know it would be a sad empty shell of a place inhabited by those 2 windbags.

someone hopped on the NFT train a few years too late

yeah not every defendant has the resources to contact the right legal help to get the detention overturned or compensated

like, say you get held without bond for 2 or 3 weeks, then released, you might lose your job or miss paying rent or any number of other real world effects, this has an obvious chilling effect on speech

For others: CNC == consensual non-consensual