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I have noticed that the same rationalists who think Sam Altman is building Skynet are totally fearless about an ex getting access to their home address through an adtech data-broker or a friend at Google. They are sometimes paranoid about reporters getting information, but not as worried about who collects it in the first place.

Photogenic young women with quirky clothes or hair do well on TikTok. A Canadian journalist once quit TV news because among other things he was tired of the unspoken calculus between "does this journalist ask good questions?" and "are they hot enough to get camera time?"

Yes, Duncan Sabien had a child with Yudkowsky's ex-spouse and they are in a long-term relationship. I won't link because the ex-spouse seems harmless and unwell.

A lot of people might enjoy attending a less-risky kink event to see that its like any other nerdy event from a LARP to a music festival to a craft workshop. Someone has to rent a venue, keep drinks and snacks flowing, deal with interpersonal conflicts, and clean up afterwards, and some people are mostly there because they hope to hook up or see cute people.

Fanboy voice The Teacher wants researchers to read it so they will damage their brains and be unable to build Unfriendly AI before his breeding program ramps up!

I have read a few pages of the Project Lawful thread, but I follow the ways of my fathers and crib from TVTropes.[1]

This thread is summoning some complicated feelings from "what consenting adults do is their business" and "this is not my kind of fun" to "in theory they take some sensible precautions but these people are incompetent and/or bad."

[1] When did not having read the book stop a Usenet warrior from posting?

Sometimes I sincerely wish I could go back

I miss when I thought these people were just Internet cranks too! I recommend either going mad from the revelation or fleeing from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

I never heard of Justine Tunney before but she has a Wikipedia page.

This does show that female rationalists can organize complicated events when they really want to. I don't think any of the male rationalists we talk about would be able, although there are probably a few people at Lighthaven whose names I don't know who could keep an office job that was not also their polycule.

I would be fascinated to hear from kinksters who have run similar events.

They are keen on controlling contact and fluid-borne infections, but don't talk about airborne infection control. Rationalists have a "COVID is over and RSV sounds like a Linux distro" party line which separates them from alienated nerds I know.

Events I attend which combine alcohol and a risky physical activity have a one-drink maximum, or once you drink alcohol no more playing for you, not a subjective "Don’t drink too much."

Who’s going to buy this profit-free stock selling for 100 times earnings?

I think its worse than a P/E ratio of 100. It is 100 times revenue. Earnings in this context mean profits, so a company which is losing money has no P/E ratio. The argument is that if $100 of stock corresponds to $10 of profit last year (P/E 10), that is probably a better buy than if $100 of stock corresponds to $5 of profit last year (P/E 20).

And yes, this looks to me like a crypto rugpull crossed with all the tricks which keep Tether prices and Tesla shares floating in midair.

There have also been Tantric workshops where participants were sexually assaulted. One reason I have been single for a while is that I learned too much about abuse in nerdy communities to feel safe and confident looking for partners. I don't want to talk about that when people have been physically or sexually abused though.

Edit / also allegations about teachers and disciples at the MAPLE and OAK Buddhist rationalist cult