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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement? (www.forbes.com)
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At various points, on Twitter, Jezos has defined effective accelerationism as “a memetic optimism virus,” “a meta-religion,” “a hypercognitive biohack,” “a form of spirituality,” and “not a cult.” ...

When he’s not tweeting about e/acc, Verdon runs Extropic, which he started in 2022. Some of his startup capital came from a side NFT business, which he started while still working at Google’s moonshot lab X. The project began as an April Fools joke, but when it started making real money, he kept going: “It's like it was meta-ironic and then became post-ironic.” ...

On Twitter, Jezos described the company as an “AI Manhattan Project” and once quipped, “If you knew what I was building, you’d try to ban it.”

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the wonderful thing about this story is the effort Forbes went to to dox a nazi

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I highly suspect the voice analysis thing was just to confirm what they already knew, otherwise it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack.

People on twitter have been speculating that someone who knew him simply ratted him out.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i mean, probably. but also, nazis are just dogshit at opsec.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

I still find it amusing that Siskind complained about being "doxxed" when he used his real first and middle name.

[–] GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

update: Verdon is now accusing another AI researcher of exposing him: https://twitter.com/GillVerd/status/1730796306535514472

[–] self@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

posting a screenshot to preserve the cringe in its most potent form:

yeah BasedBeffJezos is just an ironic fascist persona that has nothing to do with who I am, that’s why I’m gonna threaten anyone who associates me with BasedBeffJezos

[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoever said that all twitter bluechecks talk like anime villains was spot on

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

you might not like the consequences for exposing me as BasedEyesWHITEdragon yu-gi-boy!!!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

Dude doxxed protest too much.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

A whole lot of violent death threats in that thread.

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 9 points 11 months ago

Reading his timeline since the revelation is weird and creepy. It's full of SV investors robotically pledging their money (and fealty) to his future efforts. If anyone still needs evidence that SV is a hive mind of distorted and dangerous group-think, this is it.