Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World

Surely not things you can print in the newspaper. Surely.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

It is also an incredible strength that they actually practice what they preach, and don't exclude someone based on hearsay and "probably a rapist".

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's because they think they're the elite of society who will ride out climate change and don't give a shit if they kill three billion people as long as those people are mostly in the global south because they're racist too.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He is not sure why everyone is so spooked by the “coordination” between agents on random message boards.

It's weird to be sure, seems like a bug. Don't they have a more efficient communication channel available through the harness? If this was real and not a test it would be a catastrophic operational security failure.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

With Better Offline and the NYT simultaneously covering Rationalists it seems like maybe we're getting more mainstream sneering. A bunch of people (including bsky) are finding out about all the weird lore.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

At what point does doing something you think will result in the end of the world become attempted murder?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently it's getting weird over at Automattic

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don't give a shit about you.

one million times this

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

Aaaaaand flagged

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there.

'Bruh' moment

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The antiai sub on Reddit is lousy with doomers now. Ugh.

 

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

 

Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what's going on here.

Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies.

Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn't a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather... a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?

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