Jacob Coxon - the recent Anthropic whistleblower - appears to have had some rather interesting Takes on his old Twitter account, as described here (if it's the same account, and it looks very much like it is, per what orville_sashhhh describes).
x.com/orville_sash...there is an archive of the aforementioned Tweets here:
hilbertspaess.pages.devplenty of yikes there, but credit where it's due: this is hilarious
I do not approve of Aella for various reasons, and now I have acquired another reason to Not Approve of Aella.
Once you have money, few things are easier than making more money. That's what the financial system is designed to do, actually!
my god that Aella post though
"have you realized that my friends and I are just *better* than you poors?"
"I guess we're just providing more value to the world, unlike you slackers" says Silicon Valley's in-house Ghislaine Maxwell (allegedly)
Doesn't she make her living as a professional reassurer of extremely wealthy people, she convinces them that they're fantastic and sexy and deserve their wealth? This is just her sticking to the script.
It's very OF.
To the surprise of nobody, it's a lot easier to stay wealthy when you start wealthy. 😂
Starting out with a million dollars gives a lot of investment potential and in terms of the truly wealthy... that's not even that much money anymore.
Everyone is 12 theory going strong with that account, lmao what a loser.
Oh he's an anti-vaxxer and lab-leaker, lmao
The list of things he's confidently wrong about just keeps growing.
Christ, that’s from February of THIS YEAR
these slimy fucking freaks don't think women are people
The glaringly obvious red flag of forcing a young woman into a sex servant class
'Surely there will be no other options!' /s
It’s a whole fucking Soviet parade of red flags all by itself
A distinctly unsafe person that should be shunned from society until he is brought up right again
I don't have a daughter, but he should still leave her name out of his mouth
So, daughters can (maybe) be engineers, sex workers, and/or will die young? And they wonder why people are resisting AI.
Heads: I win.
Tails: you’re a sex worker.
The philosophy of a middle school grad.
The fucking punctuation on that post is enough to have him neutered.
Set all of the horrible stuff aside for a second. I know that's a lot to set aside. But...
I am not sure I have ever even read about a person who is so incredibly far up their own ass about absolutely everything.
Good. I'm glad he's listening to experts.
"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.
This is a "call your mom and read this out loud to her, then listen to what she says" situation.
What a ghoul.
Just the shallowest thinker of any supposed brain-genius I ever heard of.
Ok but what does he think my engineer son is supposed to do
(oh wait his kink is dystopias where women are forced into sex work, he doesn't actually care about men or the economy or whatever)
crafting a narrative in which the only two outcomes conveniently presuppose what he's trying to persuade you of
Fucking loons
Did he say "ai hopefuls should train their daughters to be prostitutes in the good scenarios"!?
what the fuck is this weirdo talking about. he sounds like an insane person
He is one
He's a middle school dropout who calls himself an "autodidact".
"Instead, how about sending your underage daughter to one of our polycules. We'll look after her. Promise."
No imagination. No “this could make more people free”. No “this should make more people free”. What an evil freak.
Which is the optimist? The sex work or the implied young death?
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
Yud has a lot of gall claiming women can't be engineers when he himself has shown zero capacity to be an engineer.
the argument is rather obviously that in the AI optimist scenario nobody can be an engineer because Jev took all the jebs but I think it would have been less prone to misogyny interpretations if it did not involve a daughter.
I also think the thrust is that the "optimistic" scenario is only good when compared with extinction (typical Yudkowskian gloom), & that it's misogynist in a conservative "sex work is the worst thing that could happen to a woman" way
and it’s really telling that that’s the first thing he reached for
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.
In the “optimistic” future he imagines, I’ll choose the alternate path he’d not considered: enough women just get fed up with techbros trying to run the planet and rip out the tech industry root and branch.
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
The question assumes that the loathsome stunted cretins who make up the “rationalist movement” would correctly understand misogyny to be a bad thing, which is very much not in evidence
You’ll never go broke telling rich people what they desperately want to hear.
nuke the bay
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.
not sure we’d have less tech
Techbros don't actually build tech.
JFC
What the fuck does this even mean? AI is going to reduce women to sex workers? What
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.
Heck, the idea that other options might exist for people in those two scenarios doesn't seem to occur to him.
These people are genuinely insane
i'm glad these guys are the leading voices for safety, idk about the rest of you but i'm feeling safe as fuck right now
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.)
yes, yud doesn't actually know how to build ai - safe or otherwise - so he does philosophy and social media.
Yud does pseudo-philosophy. He doesn't know real philosophy even if it hits him right in the face. Social media? Yeah.
oh that's good to know. can't trust anybody on the internet anymore.
The problem is that a lot of the people actually working on AI (safety or otherwise) and a lot of the money behind it, are in this guy's creepy sphere.
He's influential.
... what... which fate corresponds to which? if AI pessimists are right, am i becoming a sex worker paid in stocks or having a short life???
Sex Worker is the "optimistic" choice in Yud's framing, I believe.
i guess it makes sense from a guy attached to a movement promoting industry sex parties
i guess "pessimistic" in his sense is more "AI is going to kill everyone" than "AI isn't going to do what optimists say it's going to do"
Yeah he’s not considering that scenario at all, but I think if you asked him about it he would say that’s the most optimistic scenario
Yeah, Yud is saying “the optimists <who he disagrees with> think this will make everyone unemployed, the pessimists <him> think it will literally kill everyone imminently”. And to be really clear, for deeply stupid reasons, he genuinely believes in the pessimist scenario
Only two possible outcomes? Is that all he can imagine?
Feels like a skill issue 🤔
jesus fucking christ just reading this shit makes me want to take a baseball bat to whatever server hosts his stupid website
I made up my opinion about this guy when I read a scifi short story he had written where, in the future, nonconsensual sex was normal and encouraged and this was presented as a good thing. just an absolute fucking creep.
Someone who senators should def be taking meetings with. 🤦
seriously...oof, Bernie has really lost the thread
Fucking - and I cannot state this too strongly - hell
I swear those assholes are channeling the Brethren of the Free Spirit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethre...whatanoddthingtosay.gif
Which of these is supposed to be the optimistic outcome?
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.
Yea I guess the “optimistic” one is that AI becomes real and does all the engineering jobs and also every other job but sex work? I guess. Dude is so high on his own farts, he really thinks an LLM is somehow gonna become capable of real intelligence.
It's funny because I'm in the middle of an AI class right now and the professor basically said "LLMs aren't *made* to emulate human intelligence, they tried doing that and it didn't work, so they pursued this instead."
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The other option appears to be "we all die in a few years," so the alternative has to be the optimistic view. [He wrote a book titled "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All".]
What about men? Might *they* have to become sex workers? Funny that he doesn't mention that.
I'm sure there's a very rational reason.
Presumably the men are either AIco Stock Owners or Dead.
There's a third way he hasn't considered, and it's to prevent the supposedly inevitable AI-pocalypse by enacting Sarah Connor's plan from Terminator 2 on [redacted on legal advice]
I’d ask what the Rationalist Movement is, but if this asshole is in any way representative of it, fuck him, fuck the movement, and fuck anyone supporting any of this bullshit.
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
Ah, I see. Well then….
Definitely fuck them.
Even better: he created it.
fuck just about anyone is a safe bet lately
Who is this loser? His name is like a bad Scrabble hand.
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 easy to get it wrong. But in my defense, it's a MST3K joke.
so he's a total fucking psychopath, got it
Oh wow he’s the one who said that.
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.
This is very far from the point (maybe?), but is his avatar AI? Because lol
I hate it here
Given that Sanders already teamed up with Steve Bannon on this, I would actually consider Yudkowsky a step up.
Different levels within a ditch are not as useful as one would think.
It's someone for me to step on when I'm scrambling out of the ditch, but yeah.
Bannon is also a true believer, just of a different system.
Shocked.
I am shocked.
My analogy for Bernie Sanders is to imagine the democrats as huskies pulling a sled through the snow. Bernie is a dog trotting along beside them, telling them all the ways they're pulling the sled wrong.
He’s never *not* let me down, why start now!
If he let you down any more he’d be the Padres cleanup hitter.
He has such bad judgment on people it edges on the spectacular.
No
No
No no no no no no
No
No
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
SENATOR, WTF
He did exactly the same thing meeting with all the worst people on climate change last time around. And going all out for Platner till the bitter end. The man’s picker is broken.
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
He is truly terrible at it, to the point where it’s a mercy that he’s also incompetent at getting anything passed.
And his misogyny shines through his blind spot in all his terrible picks. He never sees it coming.
Maybe Bernie just misinterpreted the invitation to join the polycule
i wonder if bernie has seen longyud
Oh good lord
March 4?
Old people don’t understand technology and shouldn’t be allowed to make policy around it
In his defense, Sanders probably thought AI was aortic insufficiency,
Bernie needs to fucking retire already
bernie has been on this train for a good minute and i really suspect there's someone on his staff from the yudkowski camp, it feels directed
Bernie please don’t listen to the sex cult guy who doesn’t have a high school degree
Bernie seems to be suffering from the affliction many elderly politicians have which makes them say, “Quick! I have to find someone, ANYONE, who can help me accomplish my goals of changing the world before I die!”
This sucks big fuck time
Maybe it’s a good thing he didn’t become president
Faine, I have been in a relationship and have clients who have schizophrenia. Eliezer stinks of it. There’s no other verb to describe the unfortunate combination of delusions, paranoia, intelligence and word smithing.
Magical thinking mixed with futurism.
He has schizophrenia.
Caveat: I don’t know shit, ask a psychiatrist
He literally believes the bot will escape by becoming a wizard:
bsky.app/profile/valk...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.
Oh my fucking gawd
What the fuck are his staffers doing? Are they high? Are they in the cult too? Are they in a coma?! Like NO!
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.
I don’t even fucking know anymore homie smh the world lost its gd mind
bsky.app/profile/potr...Wait, Yud has no education at fucking all? Why does anyone even care about what he has to say?
But what if that 8th grade dropout has figured out the Seekrit Nowledge? And there are also sometimes naked people? Have you considered that???
lol Yes! & more mental masturbatory nonsense compounded with what’s already unadulterated horse shit makes it all even worse!
This is who has always been. Enough of his former staffers have proven to be complete shit also (Briahna Joy Gray for one), so this is no surprise, at all.
I mean, there’s policy stuff & hot takes and then there’s this shit
bsky.app/profile/potr...Exactly. He doesn’t have “bad taste in his staffing choices,” he’s surrounding himself with his own kind.
I can't believe the guy who endorsed Brie Brie and the Oyster Rapist is endorsing the Harry Potter and the Simulated Rape Orgy cult leader
“Oyster Rapist” sure conjures up those feelings where I wish I couldn’t read.
I mean, “Oyster Nazi” has its own set of problems, but at least I’m not wondering how Platner pries open their poor shells.
Idk, I like his basically "ban ai" bill.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...As much as I like a lot of Bernie's ideas, I'm glad he didn't become president because he is not great when it comes to vetting people.
It’s more a schtick than ideas.
Are they taking him to the, um convention?
@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll
Bernie Sanders: good at calling out problems, TERRIBLE at judging people
Welp....
That's tragic...
Anyway, is everyone enjoying the fall weather ?
Too many rainy days so far 😾
Boooooooo
Who could have predicted
something something Congressional age limits...
Jesus Christ...
tracks.
For those who don't know (I didn't until I looked it up), this is the guy who wrote the Harry Potter fanfic that these weirdos base their delusions on:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer...It's extremely sad that Bernie Sanders is doing the "AI" industry's work for them: pumping the "critihype" that they're going to kill us all. He clearly doesn't understand the impacts of "AI."
More like Chudkowski.
Sharing a platform too w that Eminence Grease, Bannon
Extra 💜 for the pun; so good.
For fuck’s sake, @sanders.senate.gov , get on here and start paying attention!! Yudkowsky is a nut! Stop consulting NUTS!
Sex is so dangerous and wrong you must believe the answer is always NO, unless consent is so enthusiastic it includes a loud verbal yes and jumping up and down. Anything less is no, always no and forever no.
I'm afraid everyone asking if AI will be smarter than humans is already dumber than AI.
Oh FFS, time to put him out to pasture
Are there literally no Sanders staffers on Bluesky?
Wake up, @sanders.senate.gov
@sanders.senate.gov.web.brid.gy
Misty Rebik chief of staff
William Gendell dept chief of staff & legislative director
I cannot find either of them on BlueSky.
There's Matt Duss and Jane Kleeb.
I want to see how the Leftists and Bernie followers are going to spin this
doesn’t this guy fuck kids? I read somewhere this guy fucks kids.
Bernie Sanders will never shake off his reputation of being a good-intentioned old man who is very gullible and too often taken advantage of by grifters.
Meetings? Has this happened more than once?
That tweet isn't even a complete sentence.
May the 8 oldest members of Congress, including Bernie, all 85+, stand forth to be counted, in the face of death. On the other hand if they are having a breakfast sandwich that is also in the face of death.
Regardless of everything else Bernie in the last couple of years, I will say this is disappointing.
Bernie is addicted to taking Ls. 99% of politicians quit before hitting their biggest L - not Bernard Sanders
Oof.
Bernie seems to love rapey bros.
this does make sense in a weird way, they're like the same person (miraculously effective in the pursuit of the literally impossible for foolish reasons)
Oh not Chudowsky
Alright grandpa let’s get you to bed. I think older folks (Bernie) should just sit out some of these conversations if they clearly are not capable of grasping what’s actually going on. That’s my generous interpretation because I don’t want it to be something more sinister 😔
Unc is chopped, I’m afraid.
Nothing is more inherently untrustworthy than every time people talk about regulations, we immediately go to the people who have a financial stake in what's about to be regulated and ask them how they want it to work.
I love him, but I need him to retire and boost some younger politicians.
Honestly just based on Sanders own history that's extremely not shocking.
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