In case one desperately needed a non AI alternative, progress quest exists and has been around since 2002

If all it took to bring these guys down was to show that they were weird and unsettling, the CIA would have infiltrated and shut down awful systems by now

You wound me, Gerard

There should be an internet-wide bot that replies to every “just a tool” defence with “you’re just a tool”

Sounds promising. For something like this to be good, it has to thread the needle in terms of highlighting the blatant disregard for humanity from the tech CEOs without falling victim to the skynet boogeyman. So based on the little I’ve heard, they might do ok at that. But I never get my hopes up anymore tbh, just in general

“I quit my job at the scary drawing company because the drawing I made was too scary for me but my bosses didn’t seem scared enough”

WRT animal domestication, I mean there are plenty of ethicists who could credibly argue that it’s a form of abuse. IMO it’s not great.

WRT the rest- kind of riffing on your first sentence- we haven’t even sorted out those things for people, really.

Wait does LW even think slavery is bad

There is some pedophilia in there too.

…also, what the fuck. This is a step backwards, even just reading it. I’m mad.

I was gonna joke that he spent all the prize money on cocaine and needed a job. Because of the film Good Will Hunting, I always thought that the Fields was the same reward as the Nobel. I looked it up and the fields only awards 15k CAD (about 102k Norwegian Krone) vs. the Nobel’s 11mil SEK (10.8m NOK).

FWIW my bookshelf contains very few works along these lines except for the works of Nagata Kabi, specifically 「My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness」, which you might like to check out, if you haven’t already. But uh, yeah all I can say in relation is that it has “Lesbian” in the title.

RIP oceangate guy, you would have loved vibe submarine design

They hope it’ll land safely, but all signs point to it disintegrating during descent and sinking into the abyss

Extremely mature of both of you to make a crouton joke and not once include a scrotum joke

List appended! Thanks!

a bit of a pattern in my interests

It’s books, right?? /s

(In this case the /s stands for sapphic)

Also noted!

I guess I will learn what my tolerances for Scots is!

thanks, noted!

thanks!