Eliezer is a major contributor to the rationalist attitude of venerating super-forecasters and super-predictors and promoting the idea that rational smart well informed people should be able to put together super accurate predictions!
This is a necessary component of his imagined AGI monster. Good thing it’s bullshit.
Why would anyone name a browser after Ronald Reagan’s wife anyway
Edit: facepalm
Since this is the solo version, strawmasturbating
Re fame, he ends up on the orange site often enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scottaaronson.com
Wonder if people karma farm there…
Only things that a hidden camera can do.
This is a massive loss. At this point we need specific legislation. Insane to grant fair use to a for-profit copier that provides no benefit to the owner of the copied item and competes with it in the market. I cannot overstate how shitty this is.
He doesn’t believe in Germ theory. He’s utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don’t know if he really understands that it’s a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.
Under no circumstances allow your US Citizen self to be illegally detained by ICE I guess.
I didn’t find the thread you are talking about, but I found this instead, which is probably much worse.
(Edit: I did eventually find the thread!)
Did the jargon file fail to evolve, or did Raymond just stop maintaining it? It roughly coincides with when the full extent of his brain breakage became apparent (“anti idiotiarian manifesto.”)
Or maybe it represents the end of when the Stallmanites, The corporate types (incl. Raymond) and the Linux Fandom actually saw eye-to-eye.
“They might as well be Latvians” is a straight out of Arrested Development.