maybe someone with a camera in SF can pop downtown and document this gathering

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZ7CWfo4tGDAS3wEg/michael-trazzi-s-shortform?commentId=yq38DLKfe7EMciyAB

apply exposure comp b/c everyone will be pasty white

I think it’s a specific genre of reportage where you objectively[1] report what you observe and let the reader draw their own conclusions.

[1] problematic term, engage!

“Judges love this one weird trick!”

Don’t knock scaffolding, at least it has everyday uses.

cue a thriller where a disgraced techbro billionaire is hunted by the surveillance system he gleefully created

scratch that, that will be a popular reality TV show enjoyed by millions

but but but blockchain

How convenient being able to offer a solution to the problem you yourself created.

I’m pretty sure the 2 people cosplaying as lawyers are just as bugshit as he is.

edit yeah they’re SovCits

Finally, our orders are not invalid simply because the clerk signed them. We have already told Irion and Egli that our orders are not void when the clerk signs them in this very case. Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 24-5886, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13507, at *1 (6th Cir. June 2, 2025). And the Supreme Court has twice denied petitions for mandamus from Irion and Egli demanding that the clerk stop signing our orders.

(italics in original, bold my emphasis)

The end result is that he will die, just like every other human being ever.

isn’t Luckey the dude mostly known for awkwardly and overweightly jumping wearing a VR headset on the cover of Time or something

No, they’re allowed and users usually post an archive link to get around the paywall.

Is the Nscale mentioned in the post the outfit which once employed Fake Satoshi?

I somehow missed how American leftists were instrumental in urging the Iranian people to oust the Shah. Leftists like… Jimmy Carter[1]

edit this is typical US-centrism, other people don’t have any agency, it’s all about America

[1] I know, I know, about as left-wing as Genghis Khan

whoever loses, we win

if you outsource your analysis of US politics to slop machines, this is the kind of inane drivel you get

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cDwTZKg2pouK7RvBL/draft-moskovitz-the-best-last-hope-for-constructive-ai-1

(n.b. the Moskovitz referred to is not the very weird, very online Zvi, but some dipshit VC)

yeah it’s bad

otoh awareness I think is spreading

swedish public broadcasting has regular “spot the fake” pieces on their website

I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to “mature” is a good idea before amplifying.

thought it was satire, genuinely surprised it’s an official Urbit-sponsored project

also very much goes against the grain of elevating the mind over the body which is the vibe I get from urbit and environs

A lobster invokes classic argument from authority

First Terrence Tao and now Donald Knuth.

If you’re still on the fence about AI, you have to take it seriously now.

yeah b/c I’m a professional computer scientist …

A real evil robot god would keep a sample of humanity alive forever in order to torture them as reprisal for them being really really mean to it back in the day.

Obviously I don’t want the human race to go extinct, but if there was a choice of inevitable outcomes where we do, building an inimmical superintelligence at least implies agency, not carelessness.

Anyway Big Yud’s fantasy of a precisely timed diamondoid-bacteria delivered killshot to every human being at the same time might sound terrible, but from a sensory perspective of the victims, it’s basically suffering-free. You go about your day, BAM nothingness. Maybe there’s a difference in timing so you see your partner keel over a split second before you die - again, you might not even realize what is happening.

I am not sure from where this idea of a global instantaneous simultanous genocide comes from, maybe a tit-for-tat escalation to counter every argument against shutting down the robot god, but from a storytelling perspective it’s pretty useless. There’s no drama where the survivors lament their loss or brood over what might have been. It’s just a plug being pulled on the simulation.

(weirdly it’s also the logical outcome of asking a computer to “end human suffering”, a bit like the Robobrain logic in Fallout 4’s Automatron expansion, but I doubt it’s meant that way)