Apologies for radical feministing but “biological sex” is also a constructed category! It’s useful shorthand for quick categorising a bunch of related traits if you’re doing biology, but it does not meaningfully exist on an individual scale. There is no more reason to divide humanity on the basis of sex than on the basis of hair colour.
Isn’t it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it’s thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?
HN:
The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?
tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.
I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”
yeah he rules
Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.
Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).
yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo
jesus fucking christ this is insufferable, these guys have been masking off for so long now that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to find new things to do fascist signalling about
I’ve done crowdsourced work qualifying bits of random work e-mails (had to determine “is this a query” if I recall correctly), and yeah this was like more than a dozen years ago.
Suppose you’re a college grad who has to decide between the usual unpaid internships at dumb startups vs. getting to be a ‘research fellow’ for a group that says it’s going to solve philosophy and save the world, and the only catch is that the group is actually a cult. Still seems pretty tempting honestly.
Oh?
NeoReaction: It’s Always Antisemitism
God this is so funny. He’s so evasive about why exactly it is bad to be associated with Epstein. I just asked mummy and she said no.
“I don’t think doing that would have made me complicit. But, you know, it would have been very embarrassing for me.”
Aw don’t worry I have no morals. But people would have been mean to me again!
what the hecky
he’s so offended he’s been told he’s not god!
Jesus fucking christ I don’t think I will ever get over how fucking dogshit the fucking rationalists are at epistemology
IT’S CALLED A FUCKING MAPPING. “MAP”. AS IN NOT THE TERRITORY. IT’S IN THE NAME.
Oh you should be extremely worried.
God I was just reading that and it’s so hard but it’s so funny because that poor girl freya seems to have caused a crisis for Kent by being genuinely enthusiastic about AI bullshit and making friends with chatbots.
I wonder if Kent is going to have to do conversion therapy on his AI girlfriend now. Ethically of course.
Good news! We’ve solved consciousness.
Liteplo says the seed of RentAHuman was planted during his travels in Japan, where humans can lease other humans as escorts.
“The story that I could tell anyone to blow their mind is that you can rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend,” he said.
huh? his big epiphany is learning about prostitution?
So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.