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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Guillaume “BasedBeffJezos” Verdon appears, by all accounts, to be an utterly insufferable shithead with no redeeming qualities
old and busted: paperclip maximizer
new hotness: entropy maximizer
All this attention including the whole Andreessen thing and he doesn't go above 50k followers. As far as virality goes that is pretty bad.
Also from his twitter: "We literally became a sufficient threat to the system that they felt compelled to attempt to neutralize me.
The thing is, I am a man of belief. You can take everything from me. I don't care. I am going to keep going until I'm dead.
You cannot stop acceleration."
Sure buddy the system did that. Keep riding the wave, in five years we will all gather on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west.
imagine huffing your own farts this hard cause you came up with BasedBeffJezos and posted garbage on Twitter that was so out of touch that monstrous every billionaire instantly agreed with it
oh also, meta-ironic cult is also a term used by Remilia and some of the other Thiel death cults to describe themselves
"to any feds reading my feed: jk jk"
A fart-huff that hard qualifies as an Alvistime miracle.
“As measured in terms of its energy production and consumption”
That’s so extremely fucking insane, jesus. We are already dealing with those issues at the “low” end and they want to fucking accelerate it? Christ these people are the fucking worst
I had kind of the same thought. Woah, maximize long term energy production??? How novel, let's get our best people right on that, thanks for mentioning it, gosh didnt occur to anyone.
I wonder when it finally occurs to them that the monetary system is literally a proxy for energy production and consumption, and their entire philosophy might as well read: "make more $$$." I'll have to ask the stupid question again, what material difference is there between e/acc, ea, and delusion?
There's a subtype of goldbugs that want "hard money" to be represented by something more universal than gold, like energy. It's why they convince themselves Bitcoin is worth something. Maybe this joker is one of them.
I mean my personal thoughts on it are nuanced. We can’t exactly just stop everything, and there’s a clear (and valid) demand for some cases of energy use
But we also have some extreme problems already, and we reaaaaally need to get a handle on those too. Just headlong running into using more and more is fucking insane
Yes, I agree. My personal thoughts are also that long term energy maximization is synonymous with regulatorial systems and dealing with the complications of energy use. Paradoxically long term maximization is defeated by any naive short term abuse. Only a naive understanding of physics supports the idea that you can simply, just produce and use more energy just like that.
Which is why theae takes don't mean, anything. It's a revelation to want money and do stupid without consequence.