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It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • Attempting to credit Luigi's actions to AI millenarianism putting him in a weird headspace almost feels like stolen valor.

    Still, if that's where his mental health defence is going to hinge on then I guess it's relevant.

    [Tim Urban] goes on to claim that ASI, with an IQ of 12,000, will eventually replace humankind as the dominant species on the planet:

    That IQ works like mana points is both a widespread misconception and a red flag that you're far more ignorant than you let on.

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  • Yeah, the foam-at-the-mouth racist college drop out with an imaginary phd in race science and at least one nazi alt that we know of is his overall top account to boost by some margin.

    I don't think I've heard of Nicholas Decker.

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  • Was it really the sensible position that the poorest country in Europe would go on to embarrass an ostensible superpower? Predicting a Russian victory in the short term in the early days doesn't seem too daring a hot take.

    It was mostly the analysts who were predicting a three day walk in the park with the ukrainians cheering them on as liberators that turned out problematic all the way.

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  • These are agents, meaning software that perceives, decides, and acts on its own, a category well past the chatbot.

    Are these agents in the room with us now?

    How can all this possibly be enforceable.

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  • So this exists: https://readscottalexander.com/stats/links

    Link Stats

    Across every post, these are the external websites Scott Alexander links to most often. "Links" counts every hyperlink; "Posts" counts how many distinct articles link there.

    So far these are probably the clearest non-leaked emails indication of what the good doctor actually believes.

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  • The AI 2040 "not how this works" supercut

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  • Also he seems to be the opposite of charismatic.

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  • Yeah, I guess I'm splitting hairs, cult leader is a very open ended job description after all.

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  • Scott is hilariously uninformed

    Elsewhere he is comparing their orwelian chipset distribution control scheme to health inspectors making sure supermarkets don't sell spoiled milk. He just says whatever as long as he thinks it'll help convince more people than it drives away, and his fanbase goes along with it because they think that's how he gets to be the normie whisperer.

    This makes me feel there really is no telling what actual agenda the rationaltruists' would enact if they ever get to dictate policy.

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  • Siskind just posted a follow up to his coverage of ai2040, apparently he's having a bit of a hard time selling his crowd on the really obvious totalitarian implications of instituting a global surveillance system to track and remotely disable chipsets to make sure rogue elements can't secretly conjure the robot god prematurely.

    It's important too, chip registration is a big part of the ??? item in the to-do list, right before "China and US passionately french kiss, agree to pause AI research"

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  • Enjoyed the writeup, thanks for gazing into the abyss!

    This is a classic rationalist fallacy that we see repeated throughout the piece of assuming that ultimately if you express the argument properly everyone will agree on the right thing

    This is complementary to their heterodoxy fetish, leading to fringe or outright bonkers but excruciatingly formalistic positions routinely sleight-of-handing themselves into prominence in the movement.

    It’s fine for AIs to get better at using valid arguments and evidence to convince people of things for the right reasons. That kind of persuasion is asymmetric: it works much better when the argument pushes towards the truth.

    That’s not how the postmodern condition works

    That's just rationalists believing that once you amass enough IQ/Mana points you unlock the mind control spell. Basically if you aren't buying what the great-men-of-history-du-jour are selling the AIs will cast domination on you for the greater good.

    Eliezer Yudkowsky - who totally isn’t a cult leader

    He is definitely a cult enabler and a huge cult beneficiary, but I don't think I've ever seen evidence he could lead shit to fuck.

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  • Diversity and inclusion is suddenly great if it involves fascists doing entryism.

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

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  • the great potential of psychological change

    Which is a euphemism for success in brainwashing.

    Also, having dismissed the entirety of psychology and psychiatry as unscientific, they naturally landed ass first on Jung and Dion Fortune as major points of reference.

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  • If your property is outside the solar system, you will need to either go into cryosleep or upload yourself to a computer to survive the journey.

    Reminder that rationalists have developed a completely mysticalised conception of brain uploading that's very functionally similar with old timey souls, mostly so they don't need to deal with the SOMA problem of every instance of uploaded consciousness being a completely separate self-actualised entity.

    Like how exactly is a digital impression of my personality being shipped to alpha centauri to inspect my holdings affect my personal experience? How is it supposed to be interchangeable with using some other made up technology that takes me there in person?

    See, it works like this, no one knows what consciousness is, but it's probably a mathematical object, and if your current conscious self is the same as the conscious self that will be inhabiting your body next friday, and also if a supreme being wants to torture you after you are dead....

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  • Nothing in my interactions with humanities types indicates they would be in a better position to handle either the educational slopnami or a slopped out job market.

    As far as educational systems go, "human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning" were always left to natural selection instead of being actively pursued. Taking a philosophy course on the history of logic and ethics isn't the same as having any.

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  • The part about tasteless AI enthusiasts needing to be housetrained to not post slop on the forums because that's borderline antisocial was also cool.

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  • I like how Yud's rogue data center air raid task force is gradually becoming another weird rationalist accepted truth.

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  • There's a corresponding siskind post also called something something plan A, I skimmed until the part where the US and China take de facto control of chip infrasrtucture and distribution (saying "nationalise" is haram for free market types), basically imagine having to write a letter to the government to formally justify upgrading your computer, and that's all the AI fanfiction I can tolerate without ruining my breakfast.

    Also clanker crankers appropriating the term 'Golden Path' from Dune is just distasteful.

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    The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

    lydialaurenson.substack.com /p/the-inside-story-of-leverage-research
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    Rationalists looking for ways to ruin elections for good

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    New member of the rationalist axis of evil just dropped

    www.bennjordan.com /blog/the-altruists-have-arrived
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    Storytime with Rationalist Rabbi Scott Alexander

    web.archive.org /web/20260310100727/https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/01/the-hour-i-first-believed/
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    Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin -- Update: Anthropic labeled supply chain risk by DoD.

    archive.is /20260226063523/https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-pentagon-blacklist-claude
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    Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

    sfstandard.com /2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
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    Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

    www.reuters.com /technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-2025-09-11/
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    Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.

    www.reddit.com /r/slatestarcodex/comments/1kp3qdh/how_openai_could_build_a_robot_army_in_a_year/
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    OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation

    www.axios.com /2025/05/05/opena-nonprofit-altman-chatgpt
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    "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman

    www.theverge.com /openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
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    UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
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    Advent of Code 2024 - Historian goes looking for history in all the wrong places

    adventofcode.com
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    New article from reflective altruism guy starring Scott Alexander and the Biodiversity Brigade

    reflectivealtruism.com /2024/10/31/human-biodiversity-part-4-astral-codex-ten/
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    It can't be that the bullshit machine doesn't know 2023 from 2024, you must be organizing your data wrong (wsj)

    archive.ph /dlyen
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    Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining

    www.pcgamer.com /hardware/an-ai-company-has-been-generating-porn-with-gamers-idle-gpu-time-in-exchange-for-fortnite-skins-and-roblox-gift-cards/
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    SBF's effective altruism and rationalism considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing

    www.citationneeded.news /sam-bankman-frieds-sentencing/
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    Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next

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    Hi, I'm Scott Alexander and I will now explain why every disease is in fact just poor genetics by using play-doh statistics to sorta refute a super specific point about schizophrenia heritability.

    www.astralcodexten.com /p/some-unintuitive-properties-of-polygenic
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    Reply guy EY attempts incredibly convoluted offer to meet him half-way by implying AI body pillows are a vanguard threat that will lead to human extinction...

    nitter.net /AndrewYNg/status/1736577228828496179
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    Existential Comics on rationalism and parmesan

    existentialcomics.com /comic/526