In March of this year but I haven’t seen it reported at all:

I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore.

(You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.)

I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you

  • CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    The coherent argument for “effective altruism” is that you should make a bunch of money and use it to buy mosquito nets and give them away for free.

    But even that version of EA is just a sideshow, because all of the big spenders in the movement are people spending on AI research because they believe (this is not a joke) that in the future an AI will come into existence that will invent time travel and torture everybody who didn’t contribute to creating it for eternity. And in the short term they pay for these “donations” by doing finance scams, they’re a major force behind crypto and NFTs.

    This is the kind of stuff that Sam Bankman-Fried blew all of his depositors’ money on.

    • theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      That’s not Rokos basilisk. Rokos basilisk stipulates that the super AI will he able to perfectly simulate your and it will torture your simulation, and since the simuation is so accurate it would functionally be you, you would functionally be tortured. It’s not less dumb, but you should be accurate

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        What if a perfect copy of you in the future was tortured? Not scary enough? How about billions of copies? Scared now? Give rich people more money! galaxy-brain

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Wait, so they actually believe that what-his-name demon or whatever it’s called? Figures techbros would miss practically every lesson about actual AI and philosophy.

      Though I guess a paranoid tech/death cult is prime real-estate for grifters, so it all checks out.

            • theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              That’s irrelevant to belief. SBF was the EA movements biggest booster and he freely admitted he did not give a shit a out it’s principles. EA is striving to be the court philosophers of a tech billionaire run world.

                • theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.netEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  SBF was THE EA guy. Elon Musk only started getting involved with EA stuff like last year, and quite clearly isn’t actually interested in even putting up the appearances of being a benign overlord any longer. Early Musk could probably fool people into believing he actually believed in EA, but if you think he’s a true believer now I don’t really know what to tell you except you’ve fallen for a PR campaign even Musk isn’t trying to keep alive any longer.

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    but if you think he’s a true believer now I don’t really know what to tell you except you’ve fallen for a PR campaign even Musk isn’t trying to keep alive any longer

                    If you really think there’s only clarity and lucidity and calculated decisions made by melon-musk , to use your words, “I don’t know what to tell you” either.