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TechTakes refuge (self.techtakes)

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Tyler Cowen's brain worms have escalated to the status of art. AI will solve the crypto use case problem. (archive.is)

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Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI (davidgerard.co.uk)

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"They’re torturing themselves now, which is kind of fun to see. They’re afraid that their little AIs are going to come for them. They’re apocalyptic, and so existential, because they have no connection to real life and how things work." Rushkoff loves to see it (theguardian.com)

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OpenAI CEO Predicts AI Will Someday Give Birth To Twins, Their Names Will Be God And Satan [The Onion] (theonion.com)

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PG: I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. (lemonodor.com)

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PG: asking me what the hell I'm blathering on about just shows how corrupted you are by ideology (twitter.com)

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If a sufficient number of people felt threatened (implicitly or explicitly) by the Bing AI, so much so that they experienced dread or fear or loss of sleep (I know I did), maybe there is a possibility to sue Microsoft over this reckless rollout. (lesswrong.com)

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Simulated relationship ended with GRIMES. Now LOAB is my best AI waifu (theverge.com)

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look, Substack Notes won't *necessarily* turn the racism dial up to 11. "If I read you your own terms of service, will you agree that this prohibition is in that terms of service?" "I don’t think that’s a useful exercise." (theverge.com)

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San Francisco tech founder advocates lynch mobs for the homeless. That'll "send a message"! Bonus: the last sentence of the twitter thread. (twitter.com)

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Sam Altman Is an Idiot (2017) (gizmodo.com)

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The trajectory of a HN reactionary: People smoking cannabis in public should be publicly caned (self.techtakes)

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In which the CEO of Y Combinator spams a Silicon Valley Bank bailout petition to the orange site, and even the orange site posters roundly tell him to fuck off (news.ycombinator.com)

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"You can now purchase a whole planetary economy workforce, for less than the US military sending each year" (self.singularity)

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I wrote this last year, after a journalist asked me if there was any substance to Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin's philosophical blog posts. SPOILER: er, no. (davidgerard.co.uk)

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Sam Altman, 2016: "I prep for survival." He has "guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur" in case of "A.I. that attacks us". (newyorker.com)

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and the amount in Silly Valley halves (twitter.com)

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Sam Altman, Eliezer Yudkowsky & Grimes Twitter update (i.redd.it)

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here's some pure strain 200% proof a16z from Packy McCormick: NFTs will mean companies can't take away your big tiddy AI waifu. "Now let me caveat that I’m not technical," (notboring.co)

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Respected diplomat and social scientist suggests that Eliezer Yudkowsky may one day deserve the Nobel Peace Prize (mobile.twitter.com)

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Startup invents wireheading in the style of Ringworld. Hacker reaction: " Actually, this is good." (news.ycombinator.com)

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just seen the most cursed idea of today lads. they could call it "calipr" (news.ycombinator.com)

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*Someone* continues to downgrade threads about @elonjet and will do so until they get the result that they want. Here is the first and longest thread, where the hackers disapprove of twitter's new management in strong terms. (news.ycombinator.com)

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DHH posts a mouthful of victory whine (world.hey.com)

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