Evinceo

HN: Just rinse out your mouth with water after eating and no cavities. Dentists hate this one weird trick.

Ok, read their actual pitch. Lmao they think that a one time introduction of a GMO bacteria strain is going to 'just work' because they've also GMO'd it to outcompete other bacteria?

There's a reason we aren't running our cars on yeast-produced gasoline. No matter how awesome your tuned microbe is, it's still subject to mutation and natural selection. If your beneficial changes aren't actually helping it survive, they will not be conserved. And those 'competitive' changes you jacked it up with to make sure it dominates the environment? Well, that might end up horizontally transferred into something you don't like.

About the right amount of 'we humans are smarter than dumb biology' metal-fetishism I'd expect from the folks concerned.

Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.

In before NY times article prints her real name complete with hissie fit followed by transition to Substack and total abandonment of mask of deniability.

You seem to have conflated libertarianism with some other philosophy like the Ayn Rand stuff

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Perfect, now it will be safe from getting scrubbed next time SVSS realizes he's let the mask slip.

50% of things Yudkowsky believes about AI amount to Culture fanfic.

Trent Reznor soundtrack though.

Wait, there's another weird techno-cult?

I maintain that the reason they haven't gone full Waco isn't that they aren't deranged enough, but rather it would require them to confront the fact that they have nobody to blame but themselves for Clippy so they rationalize themselves into inaction.

The ones that scare me the most are the ones that are no longer afraid of Clippy and replaced that fear with a fear of, like, minorities.

The community manager saying they were aware of the situation (and presumably took no corrective action and kept it hush-hush) was damning. As is the post that's just like what about the reputational damage!?

Zero recognition of the fucked up power dynamics at play, and way too much 'well, nerds will be nerds.'

I seem to recall a very similar situation in EA, let me dig it up... ah yes, it was this entire Time article: https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/

Seems to line up pretty closely with what several other people say about several other "orgs."