The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.
You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.
Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.
Apple Envy
Launch all the nukes?
Oof, that slid right past me. I think I skimmed some of the parts the article told me it was ok to skim if I wanted to.
This is actually a really damning article. Despite the carefully constructed facade, Scott simply isn’t curious about anything that might broaden his world.
It’s just a question of when they pull the trigger on this.
Especially leadership of a political organization that’s basically just there to turn his opinions into code and publish his essays.
I don’t think anything in the report is new, is it? Isn’t this the exact weirdness that got him kicked off the board in the first place? I was shocked when he was quietly added back to the board; I really thought the allegations would stick the first time.
Nice to have it all in one place though.
When the music stops can’t MS just let OpenAI go bankrupt and keep the tech?
RIP rationalist moonshot. Takes a special kind of SV-libertarian brainrot to think the world will be saved by a company. Do we have EY’s reaction yet?
They did do one on Yud, it’s hard to find and has an annoying amount of side chatter but it’s a pretty solid breakdown of the dude.
The episode is mentioned here: https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/rationalist-harry-potter-and-the
But I can no longer find it on YouTube.
Every TC article I’ve seen recently is furious jerking about how totally legal AI is and how it will finally defeat the copyright Great Satan.
Enron-ass character arc.
You’ve lost 93% of your investment so far
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Do you have an article about this?
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Bonus HN drama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721197
My sides.