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AI chat bot just makes up hospitals when asked ( www.bloomberg.com )

Amazing.

Will MacAskill wanted to go on podcasts and explain after FTX, but his laywers suggested he perhaps not send himself to jail ( forum.effectivealtruism.org )

oh no, the organisation founded by a Swedish EA with a racism scandal is defunct! No, not that one, the other one ( www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org )

Techbro develops AI-powered sex toy to “save the world” ( www.404media.co )

Teledildonics and eugenics: what more could you ask for?

Top clowns all agree their balloon animals are slightly sentient ( twitter.com )

Then: Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying AIs are sentient...

"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill ( www.buzzsprout.com )

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!...

'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes' ( web.archive.org )

An old post from Caroline Ellison's tumblr, since deleted.

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:...

Mars Review of Books is offering a swimsuit edition. All hot, all neoreactionary! ( archive.ph )

Mars Review of Books is a literary magazine featuring the sort of writer who thinks Moldbug is the greatest stylist to assault the written word and lists their Urbit address. Yeah, it's a group substack....

SlateScott talking race and IQ: very cool and truth seeking. Revealing SlateScott's powerword: what's the public interest in that? ( www.lesswrong.com )

The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit....

Yo SneerClub I heard you like critiques of LLM bullshit so I put LLM bullshit in your LLM bullshit critique ( www.psychologytoday.com )

"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:...

The Honduran charter city is going exactly as well as you expected ( theintercept.com )

https://archive.ph/RSQ9T...

State Dept funded report says AI doom is coming ( time.com )

The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

OK doomer ( www.newyorker.com )

The New Yorker has a piece on the Bay Area AI doomer and e/acc scenes....

"The Best Essay" by Paul Graham ( paulgraham.com )

In which a man disappearing up his own asshole somehow fails to be interesting.

Since age 12, SBF was a dedicated utilitarian, mommy says. It's not fair to imprison him for life. ( www.documentcloud.org )

In her sentencing submission to the judge in the FTX trial, Barbara Fried argues that her son is just a misunderstood altruist, who doesn't deserve to go to prison for very long....

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