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It’s a whole fucking Soviet parade of red flags all by itself

He is one

He's a middle school dropout who calls himself an "autodidact".

The optimist is that ai doesn't kill us and life continues as normal, in which case she should quit because women can't be engineers

Sex work. I think, ostensibly, the idea is that both outcomes are Bad, but the fact that Yud's brain can't imagine any outcome for women beyond "sex worker" says a lot more about him than anything else.

The optimistic view is that all work in the future will be done by Ai, controlled by a small group of people. We commoners will be unemployed and starve to death unless we're lucky enough to become a sex worker favoured by those AI people. To be clear, Yud himself thinks the future will be worse

So many of our problems would actually be solved if Techbros ceased to exist. Sure we'd have less tech but I'm willing to trade all that away.

His "optimistic" scenario is AI becomes omnipotent and takes over all jobs so only the people who own everything and their toadies get to have a decent life. His pessimistic scenario is that the omnipotent machine god just kills everyone. The idea of AI not becoming god doesn't occur to him.

These guys are the pseudo-leading voices for AI Safety. It's all play-pretend. In reality they have done absolutely nothing around AI Safety. (No, Harry Potter fan-fic does not count.)

Sex Worker is the "optimistic" choice in Yud's framing, I believe.

Only two possible outcomes? Is that all he can imagine? Feels like a skill issue 🤔

seriously...oof, Bernie has really lost the thread

The optimist is that ai doesn't kill us and life continues as normal, in which case she should quit because women can't be engineers

I think the sex worker one, because apparently it doesn't occur to Yud that women might not, in fact, want to become sex workers for tech bros.

So "Popularism" - only popular with the far right and "Rationalism" - lunatics

Your assessment is correct

The current movement that abuses the term "rationalist" to justify their wacko ideas is this guy's. Makes Objectivism look better by contrast. Also "Effective Altruism" is mostly the same folks, who think it's ok if we wreck the planet as long as they get to build the Great AI Paradise in the Future

Even better: he created it.

fuck just about anyone is a safe bet lately

He is lamentably influential unfortunately. Also we, and you in particular (I know you're sharp) can do better than cheap xenophobe humor

It's a movement dominated by Very Online People with overinflated opinions of themselves, which means it's a perfect spawning ground for The Worst Ideas You've Ever Heard.

It's someone for me to step on when I'm scrambling out of the ditch, but yeah.

I understand he’s never been good at it, I guess this is the first time I have something resembling context to appreciate how bad he is at picking people to listen to

Magical thinking is a red flag for schizophrenia. Doesn’t mean you have it but you could. (Not the ‚I like Gandalf and My Little Pony’ or even ‚here is my love magic spell’ but ‚bro, like magic is real via EHF and the quantum realm tunneling into brains’)

Wired: Taviso is a wizard because he is rowhammering reality with a ritual Tired: Somehow Yud make this rad idea super fucking dumb. Expired: Any politician listening to this guy's crummy sci-fi.

They are fanboys of the mighty Bernie

Really think we need to accept as a given regarding Bernie that this sort of thing is just a matter of water finding its level.

There's Matt Duss and Jane Kleeb.

Exactly, and it's why I sideeye men who decide to opine on women and rape kink, because they're always a little too enthusiastic about the concept.

People justified it as just another of his dumb takes from the 1960s, even as nobody ever asked him about what he wrote back then.