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"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you! (web.archive.org)

“Walt Bismarck,” a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:...

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)

The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)

definitely time we started charging this person rent (www.lesswrong.com)

I am extremely curious what the general take around here is on the Singulairty

First, let me say that what broke me from the herd at lesswrong was specifically the calls for AI pauses. That somehow ‘rationalists’ are so certain advanced AI will kill everyone in the future (pDoom = 100%!) that they need to commit any violent act needed to stop AI from being developed....

good news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again (www.lesswrong.com)

“glowfic” apparently. written in a roleplay forum format....

it's outrageous the NYT called Scoot a racist like Charles Murray! also, Scoot agrees with race science, precisely as Murray does. Also, the leaked 2014 email is only outrageous if you hadn't read SSC (www.lesswrong.com)

content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes. (www.lesswrong.com)

Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!...

in case you wondered when Grimes was going to go full Nazi (twitter.com)

I’m called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will...

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

Aella and company want to put GM bacteria in your mouth (www.lanternbioworks.com)

“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”...

Nonlinear seem to think this post replying to the accusations about them will make them look like the heroes (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

warning: seriously nasty narcissism at length...

Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin (thenewinquiry.com)

Some gems from the article....

Big Yud gives some dating advice (twitter.com)

Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation (openai.com)

OpenAI blog post: openai.com/…/building-an-early-warning-system-for…...

LW: [Request]: Use "Epilogenics" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances - people just don't like the word itself yes that must be it. Coined by Aella. (www.lesswrong.com)

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Rationalist posts detailed catalogue of confirmed bad behaviour by EA/rationalist org Nonlinear. Second rationalist goes meta on first post: how can we even know anything, it's so unfair to Nonlinear

original post detailing mistreatment of employees...

here in Top Pedophiles Of Twitter, my "friend" thinks about race so very little that he shit-tests every new person he meets with a racial slur

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‘Before its too late buddy’: A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism (www.truthdig.com)

SBF's effective altruism and rationalism considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing (www.citationneeded.news)

For thursday’s sentencing the us government indicated they would be happy with a 40-50 prison sentence, and in the list of reasons they cite there’s this gem:...

the effectively altruistic AI's fans are gonna pipe bomb a Planned Parenthood (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it’s not a CASTLE it’s a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4," (www.lesswrong.com)

archive: archive.is/KdzMM

another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)

Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies...

GabAI system prompt leaked (lemmy.world)

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