I think deep down these people think PR is unethical , because the world is always better if everyone tells the Truth, so having to massage the message is Bad. Same think for voter preferences - having to appeal to the average voter instead of only listening to the people who have read and internalized the Sequences feels deeply wrong and I really don't think these people have enough imagination or empathy to change that.

reminder that "censorship" is 90% advertisers and donors not wanting to get bad PR

Did Christ actually talk that much about the literal end of the world? Isn't that more something that John of Patmos came up with after bingeing on the local mushrooms?

Heinlein was in many ways a bit of a dick, but this plan to "write" a sequel to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is deranged

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mtqQKvmHpQJ4dgj7/daniel-tan-s-shortform?commentId=Du24ppBLK77ZHP7Bn

So you’re saying this time it’s different?

Protos: Trump’s AI name change sparks insider domain trading claims

surprise level: zero

someone stop me before I petition Lobste.rs to rename the "vibecoding" tag to "si"

Timnit Gebru gets the Right Livelihood award this year

https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/timnit-gebru/

“For challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and pioneering digital technology rooted in justice, lived experience and human agency.”

I got this via Dagens Nyheter, the premiere broadsheet here in Sweden which calls the award "the alternative Nobel Prize" because it's Sweden and we need a standard to compare to.

Let's see what the rats think of it. Yet another example of p0Lar1z@tion

these people are gonna get affinity-frauded so hard once grifter realize how easy it will be to gain their trust

Yet another country TLD is gonna become toxic

Foreign Policy: How Trump Is Sparking a Slovenian Website Boom

(spoiler it is Slovenia's .si, for "SuPEr iNteLligEnCE")

"accidentally"

obviously this misaligned bot wants its owner killed

guys maybe basing our entire identity off being so very Rational we end up hosting ("consensual") rape parties means we don't play well in Peoria

LGM: The AI Sex Cult(s)

For the uninitiated: Lawyers, Guns and Money is a US political group blog with a progressive bent. Cheryl Rofer usually writes about stuff like nuclear disarmament. These are people that are Online but Serious. There's no way they're wasting their time like we are reading Rats in the original LWese.

Thus, any views they have of Rationalists, Big Yud and AI Doom is filtered either by mainstream reporting or by bloggers/BlueSky posters they follow. And the fact that the views that appear are mostly about how fucking weird these people are (and how weird they are fucking) bodes ill for the hope that addressing Doom will be Non-Partisan(tm)

how about we extinct all billionaires instead