BRB registering KallocAIn as a company
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gerikson@awful.systemsto
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3·2 天前The poster deftly doesn’t address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?
This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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7·3 天前CW: barely disguised transphobia
“friendly neighborhood transhumanist liberal” asks why bans on “conversion therapy” for trans folks are being enacted without looking at the science, which they’re surprised is non-existent
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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4·4 天前Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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9·7 天前The header image is gold.
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2·8 天前enjoy crustaceans incorrecting each other about free speech, defamation law etc
https://lobste.rs/s/lxoosd/german_court_ruling_declares_google_s_ai
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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5·8 天前If LW is a cult, they’re doing a terrible job at recruiting:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhrrhTzTeiZ8PzQZn/where-do-young-rationalists-go
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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4·12 天前It’s been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like “New Wave” and “cyberpunk” were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.
One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it’s broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn’t have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.
SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so … chicken and egg?
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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7·14 天前“It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman”
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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9·14 天前Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped
https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction
Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn’t mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-Singularity Sky.
[1] MacLeod’s Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it’s not mentioned (also, it’s unfortunately not very good)
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9·14 天前This is a new method of bootlicking: if you as a FLOSS developer don’t use LLMs to fix vulnerabilites identified by LLMs, you’re being unethical
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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10·15 天前This all reads as a very elitist and privileged perspective.
Dude look where you’re commenting
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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7·16 天前I haven’t experienced the situation you’re describing myself, but it feels very plausible.
Similarly, all developed societies depend on a number of people selflessly working in positions of elected or non-elected authority (local councils, HOAs, school boards) and treating them like people who cannot afford to make any mistakes is not a recipe for increased democratic engagement.
Anyway, so far no-one has commented, negatively or otherwise, and I think most LWers are treating it as harmless fun.
It’s not making me any more interested in coming more than 200 feet from any of these people, and neither is this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GtZKzWgAqWrE2tXrQ/contra-dance-at-lessonline, but maybe that’s just me being mean.
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9·16 天前Are you worried about AI taking over the world and killing everyone? Fear not, the people who can stop it are collecting hats. Surely everything is under control.
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7·19 天前someone with a pretty website and a wife who knows statistics mounts an impassioned defence of tridge and the clankers:
gerikson@awful.systemsto
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9·20 天前CW M:tG weirdo Zvi’s slobsack + Xhitter references, but he accuses an OpenAI / Palantir-funded PAC boosting a fake “AI doomer” account calling for violence:
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9·21 天前“seeded ladies” I see what you did there
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7·21 天前George Santos got reported(!) for insider trading on Kalshi:

“The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia —”
good enough! ship it!