What's the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven't switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

fair share of doomsday rats have sneaked in trying to co-opt the movement

There's a group called "Pause AI" that is exactly this, EA funded (iirc) org trying to astroturf artists against AIart.

The article on GamerGate is also awesome, but my favorite part is probably that it contains the very best article about Trump you're ever going to read.

The all‐enveloping tactile environment is now widely available and fully convincing. Its resolution equals or exceeds that of human touch and can simulate (and stimulate) all of the facets of the tactile sense, including the sensing of pressure, temperature, textures, and moistness.

I'm picturing the VR dildo-suit from Upload.

Gravity and Juiceros

Gravity is what allows a cinder block to replace tour Jucero.

Thanks for reminding me about Jucero.

This guy's idea of thermodynamics is basically... he thinks that speed running universal heat death is... the highest calling of life?

Kinda the slowest and least exciting way to annihilate the universe, but it seems to exist mostly to justify irresponsible energy use.

The Irish discourse in race nu-uh ism. Like yeah, white people did some shit to the Irish. But then the Irish got upgraded to White status. The exact boundary of what we consider 'white' has changed and imposing it retroactively on historical figures and trying to imagine a unified 'white culture' of the pre-colonial world is silly.

Like if you want to be proud of your euro heritage, great, get some flags and learn to cook your favorite old country dish. But if you conceptualize it as this grand unified 'white heritage', we can see the klan hood.

People playing too many Paradox games.

[Request]: Use "Breeding humans like livestock" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances.

See also: Zuck and Snow Crash.

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.