In March of this year but I haven’t seen it reported at all:
I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore.
(You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.)
I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you
Do I even want to ask what “effective altruism” even is? To my ears it sounds like “We’ll be nice only when we feel like it, and justify our shitty behaviour when we don’t.”
The coherent argument for “effective altruism” is that you should make a bunch of money and use it to buy mosquito nets and give them away for free.
But even that version of EA is just a sideshow, because all of the big spenders in the movement are people spending on AI research because they believe (this is not a joke) that in the future an AI will come into existence that will invent time travel and torture everybody who didn’t contribute to creating it for eternity. And in the short term they pay for these “donations” by doing finance scams, they’re a major force behind crypto and NFTs.
This is the kind of stuff that Sam Bankman-Fried blew all of his depositors’ money on.
That’s not Rokos basilisk. Rokos basilisk stipulates that the super AI will he able to perfectly simulate your and it will torture your simulation, and since the simuation is so accurate it would functionally be you, you would functionally be tortured. It’s not less dumb, but you should be accurate
Wait, so they actually believe that what-his-name demon or whatever it’s called? Figures techbros would miss practically every lesson about actual AI and philosophy.
Though I guess a paranoid tech/death cult is prime real-estate for grifters, so it all checks out.
Roko’s Basilisk and yep, they sincerely believe it. These are the people the market has decided are The Tech Understanders.
Rokos basilisk and probably not. The only person who 100% believes is Grimes.
Most charities are scams. So be a tech bro get rich and start your own that you know will work. Start charities in the 3rd world where your US money goes farther. If we all solve all the little problems one by one eventually the big problems won’t be so bad and we can fix them to. Also, hyper exploitative capitlaism is the only possible system and nothing about the status quo can change.
Other people have answered you but I also suggest this series of short articles: Extropia’s Children (CW: cultish and sex pest stuff in the latter chapters); including how it became somehow linked (both in its inception and as some sort of bible to these freaks) to a harry potter fanfic; how it includes a weird obsession with Bayesian probabilities; how they of course jumped on crypto immediately, and how the general movement ends up with cultish “mental debugging sessions” and much darker stuff.
I used to fuck with EA before I found the immortal science. That Harry Potter fanfic was probably the closest thing in had ever read to material analysis and rejecting neoliberalism and it blew my goddammit mind. It is super cringe in places but because the character was written to be super logical at all times he accidentally invents comunism. I talked to the author about it and he got indignant. I still talk to some on reddit occasionally and try to conivnce them global warming is a probelm.
