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Starter Pack full of people to follow for LGBTQIA-related Psychology and Sexology! Will expand as more people make their way over to Bluesky go.bsky.app/7xnHN49

I've never thought of it like that, but it makes a lot of sense, and it fits with the way a lot of the people who insist we think of the brain as a machine seem to hold teleological views cloaked in scientism

In case you missed it, I recently chatted with Cal Newport about Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism and the TESCREAL ideologies. Some have told me it's a good intro to these topics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt50...

From Olivia's post below, this is a good very basic intro article by NPR

My most controversial Rat take is that being into Analytic-Philosophy > Continental is a "Wordcel" tendency, not a "Shape-Rotator" tendency. Everyone I know with a background in Physics/Engineering, and also an interest in philosophy, is into like Deleuze, Lacan, Guattari and so on and so forth

They're saying "Everyone knows statistics. It comes for free with the brain. Some brains are just kind of bad though"

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

Did somebody call my name?

Oh my god, this is gold.

Thinkin bout them… 💖💙

Rationalists are so obsessed with prediction. Its very annoying. Everything is betting markets to them.

I'm so tired of interacting with those who think that parasitic industries aren't vile: ones that depend on services we all own collectively to fail, e.g. so-called AI for supposedly helping the underserved educationally. I hate companies who steal labour for profit too. Or damage the environment.

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

Seems like a good time to post quote from Stewart & Norvig (3rd edition) of events in 1997. "Kasparov said that he felt a “new kind of intelligence” across the board from him. Newsweek magazine described the match as “The brain’s last stand.” The value of IBM’s stock increased by $18 billion."

In a "collaboration" (which we left), someone used an LLM to make a "summary" on topics for the project (without our consent) in which published research ideas from @olivia.science & me understandably popped up, but were credited to men, while our names showed up nowhere in the "summary". 🧵

The voices of people—especially Black women—in marginalized communities are often systematically erased by white men. Attention-seeking AI guru Connor Leahy is now outlining an intellectual history of SV that is virtually identical to the one outlined by me and Gebru. 1/3

New article examining the incestuous connections between the TESCREAL movement and the ASI race. I guarantee you'll find this interesting--I show how these people all know each other, have hung out and partied together, and share the same eschatological vision. Check it out!

I've been saying this for 2 years: More&more people r discovering the TESCREAL thesis. Here, Seth refers to the "mind-uploading singlularity-mongering extropian narrarive." The TESCREAL thesis is a detailed intellectual history of this narrative, starting with Extropianism! 1/ x.com/anilkseth/st...

what gif pops up when you type in your name? (I'm gonna pretend this is the first gif because the other ones are rude)

“Comparing 1 acre of growing corn for ethanol, to 1 acre of solar panels to charge EVs”

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HEXED looks…fine. But WILDWOOD and FORGOTTEN ISLAND? I will RUN to theaters to see those, day one. Because just from the trailers, I can see the love the artists put in & both look like a blast to have worked on HEXED looks like an exec said “magic & witches are popular rn so this’ll make money”

There is one really bad AGI-doubter/X-risk-doubter argument that really grinds my gears. The argument basically, is that perfectly *simulating/emulating* human cognition would be computationally intractable. And like... ok maybe. But that's completely beside the point.

Want to understand current debates about human extinction? This is your comprehensive guide to the topic--everything you need to know to make sense of the different views people are promoting and defending. Take a look, if you have the time! www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/making-sen...

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

🚨New Study Added🚨 A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of 432 #trans adolescents and young adults receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy found statistically significant reductions in suicidality following treatment. open.substack.com/pub/jackturb...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

the assassination of charlie kirk is just a distraction. ICE is raiding immigrant communities, and Congress is dismantling trans healthcare.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

it's such a sign of how bad social media has fucked us over that a podcaster getting shot feels like it'll have a bigger impact than elected officials getting assassinated so many concerned tweets about how the rubicon has been crossed wtf are you talkin about man we've been here for years

Hi friends who are only on bsky. Long time no see