If there were any doubts before this incident that Sam Altman is a sociopath, there can be none now.

Sounds like your typical commenter on a lesswrong or Astral Codex Ten blog post.

One can hope. But given how long she’s been a part of this milieu (her social circles are made of up of people like Razib Khan and Curtis Yarvin), I doubt it.

Every day, HN users flag into oblivion anything mildly critical of the technological dystopia these tech-bros are trying to manifest. “Politics!” they cry. But Sam Altman comes along with an OpenAI marketing piece dressed up as a condemnation of political violence, and suddenly “politics” are a perfectly acceptable topic. dang has long made it clear whose side he’s on.

Oh, and I hope everyone noted how quickly Sam used this incident as an excuse to place blame on the reporters who published the New Yorker piece that was mildly critical of him:

Words have power too. There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago. Someone said to me yesterday they thought it was coming at a time of great anxiety about AI and that it made things more dangerous for me. I brushed it aside.

Sorry, I meant the backstory on her removal from CEP. As far as I can tell, she’s sort of disappeared from the Internet since her removal.

He really is insufferable, isn’t he?

I’m surprised at how they’ve practically erased her from the site. Do you have any idea what the back-story is? I assume there must have been some sort of falling out. Perhaps her proximity to Curtis Yarvin was more than Trace could take (see: pictures of her at Yarvin’s wedding).

Depending on your DNS provider, you may not be able to use archive.today without infinite captchas. I believe Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and NextDNS are affected this way. Google (8.8.8.8) apparently is not.

Looks like they’re using the standard blue/orange color scheme

Nick Land goes to Silicon Valley.

Fake journalist with AI slop avatar and slop credentials starts rising in Substack’s “politics” rankings, someone asks the Substack CEO what they’re going to do about it, and gets told to pound sand.

RFK Jr’s Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum.

Shhh, don’t tell him.

It is a much cheaper and quicker means of murdering a bunch of astronauts though, so it does have that going for it.

There’s also a better chance that Elon exits the planet sooner.

annieposting

The Joscha Bach Substack article is a strange mix of self-pity, JAQing off, and eugenics. He compares Namibian babies he saw in a documentary to great apes in terms of their childhood development, cites studies showing lower cognitive ability among African American children, and then gets all emotional over the fact that people might think he’s a bit of a racist.

AI attracts so many racists – especially the kind who can’t tell that they’re racist. I guess it’s inevitable for any field of study that includes the word 'intelligence" in its name.

That was quite the rabbit-hole.

The whole time I’m sitting here thinking, “do these mods realize they’re moderating a subreddit called ‘cogsuckers’?”

I was unable to follow the thread of conversation from the archived links, so here is the source in case anyone cares.

Does anyone know when Dustin deleted his EA forums account? Did he provide any additional explanation for it?

I didn’t realize this was part of the rationalist-originated “AI Village” project. See https://sage-future.org/ and https://theaidigest.org/village. Involved members and advisors include Eli Lifland and Daniel Kokotajlo of “AI 2027” infamy.

Its standard crypto libraries are also second to none.