Looks like a Stanford philosophy professor either didn’t get invited to the orgies, or had a bad time, and took out his frustration by writing an op-ed in The Economist decrying the EAs for caring more about shrimp than people.
An outraged green-leaf LWer took to the substacks to attack him, saying he cares less about shrimp than people.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mEZAjDR9HuwJCJfWH/leif-wenar-s-takedown-of-effective-altruism
skinny nerd enters a bar, lights up and is thrown out
blog post appears: “yet another blatant attempt to deny white men sex”
“so you’re saying there’s a chance Anthropic will be profitable?”
This was exactly the point - flood the zone with shit to show how “smart” the stuff underlying your IP is
Good luck finding a recently updated map LOL
Also, I often drive alone, and when I have a passenger she’s literally blind and isn’t helpful for map reading.
I’ve been a Waze user for 15 years and it’s fucking great.
it’s in the trees, it’s coming…
half of the open positions in my company’s division are for “Software Engineer - AI Native”…
more in the comments
I already disliked the original [Harry Potter] for its lack of rationality as a child (how can they have magic and poverty at the same time?) so I loved the flip.
OK so does HPMOR solve poverty? (Q is rhetorical don’t answer)
If you didn’t like HP check out Grossman’s The Magicians. A lot of graduating magicians there join non-profits or hedge funds.
but but but don’t call it strawmanning!!!
My real opponent lives in Canada. And no, you can’t meet him.
just a peeve
here’s a personal blogpost on LW entitled “Three types of AI risk: why (some) leftists are against (some) AI regulations” (by “sudo-nym” which I admit is a great nick)
First sentence
You may have seen factions of the left being opposed to current attempts to regulate the AI industry, despite the fact that they clearly also want to stop AI.
OK Mr Sudo-Nym, if that is your real name, imma gonna stop you right there
Which “factions”?
Are these factions actually in existence, or are they just Xhitter/Bluesky handles? If you’re provide like, I dunno, sources, we could maybe evaluate this ourselves. It would also clarify whether these are US leftists as opposed to leftists in other countries which are in my experience a bit more attuned to both political realities and have a more theoretical foundation.
As it is it feels as if you’re fighting windmills in your imagination.
Commenters point out that the “frontier labs” are actually raging capitalists so there’s that.
Not only are they grade-school level awful, he totally misses the point of the original
I think the advent of photography decimated a particular genre of painting - portraits, but it was still a tail-off. The middle classes could get photo portraits done but they were only B&W and small (a Daguerreotype is basically twice as big as a standard photo print) and still quite expensive. So if you wanted a big color portrait of a loved one, you still had to commission a painting. Same for landscapes.
LW is freaking out over the Russian plague leak/quarantine, but no-one else seems to be fazed. Sweden’s health authority are chill https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/uppgifter-laboratorieanstalld-dod-efter-pestsmitta and to be honest, Russia has a functioning health system unlike the US badum-tish
I’m starting to believe that Sam Altman’s reputation as a genius salesman is a bit overrated
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
More disucssion about AI safety over at LGM
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/ai-safety
comments are a mix, some smart generalists incorrecting each other. I have not bothered to comment because I’m not an active part of the community, but I’ll share here that Rofer’s recommendations about safety we can apply now would presumably help us contain Robot Satan should it deign to be created. Lots of commenters don’t really draw that conclusion. This is pointing out the yawning void between the intense interest among Rats to devise the perfect alignment and their disinterest at mitigating harms ocurring right now.
I think deep down these people think PR is unethical , because the world is always better if everyone tells the Truth, so having to massage the message is Bad. Same think for voter preferences - having to appeal to the average voter instead of only listening to the people who have read and internalized the Sequences feels deeply wrong and I really don’t think these people have enough imagination or empathy to change that.
reminder that “censorship” is 90% advertisers and donors not wanting to get bad PR
Did Christ actually talk that much about the literal end of the world? Isn’t that more something that John of Patmos came up with after bingeing on the local mushrooms?
Sama is a serial scammer, this is just the biggest scam he’s managed to foster. He’ll say whatever it takes to get the payout.
Dario is a true believer but I also think the prospect of $billions skews his judgement