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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

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petesergeant · 1789684630 · focus · HN ↗
I'm going to be fucking irritated if we all die because BlueSky posters wanted to take pot-shots at the EA crowd. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is _also_ a story about how a community lost a child because of cynicism, and the people proudly declaring that they "know" every safety concern is just a marketing ploy also concerns me.
1. lbrito · 1789686357 · focus · HN ↗
  I'd rather have the world end than live in a world where EAs are listened to or respected.
  1. againstapples · 1789687118 · focus · HN ↗
    I agree they’re kinda weird but are they really that bad?
    jplusequalt · 1789687814 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes. Sam Bankman Fried was/is an EA/rationalist (on the short list of biggest fraudsters in American history). So are the Zizian's (a murder cult). etc. etc.
    Viliam1234 · 1789688024 · focus · HN ↗
    SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy
    jplusequalt · 1789688662 · focus · HN ↗
    And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other.
    Viliam1234 · 1789693982 · focus · HN ↗
    They also killed lots of unrelated people. Let's not take the argument far enough to claim that everyone who was ever killed by socialists must have been a socialist, too.
    Perhaps the author of the article is a rationalist, too. He certainly knows too much about them, cares too much, and the fact that he criticizes them only shows that there is some infighting among them.
    jplusequalt · 1789739637 · focus · HN ↗
    >Let's not take the argument far enough to claim that everyone who was ever killed by socialists must have been a socialist, too.
    Well it's a good thing I only mentioned the two groups who were explicitly socialists!

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