some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.
I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.
Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.
For the lab leak theory to work you have to assume not only that some workers at the lab got infected, but also that they spread it all over the city before anybody noticed, such that by the time anyone did notice, they were several degrees of contact from the lab workers.
the viruses themselves would be marked with radioactive isotopes.
Is that true? Once the virus replicated in a cell, the new copies wouldn't be tagged, right?
Aren't windmills traditionally hoisted into the air, whereas whales typically live in an underwater habitat?
I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.
Men will literally devote their lives to becoming scifi Cassandra instead of going to therapy.
End of all value is different from earth go explody. They're fine with earth go explody as long as there's a second, slightly larger earth to replace it with more value.
Least reprehensible Gamer take.
I just can't imagine the board saying he lied to them unless they have some way to back it up. If they made that up couldn't they be on the wrong end of a wrongful termination lawsuit?
Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?