D'oh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off
gerikson
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AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato's cave, scaring themselves witless:
https://www.emergent-values.ai/
At least I've IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs
Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if there's one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.
They didn't care much for marine life when they abandoned a tugboat, leavnig it to leak fuel and crap into the sea:
they recently got a profile in fucking WaPo
Rats have reached the "put up stickers to proselytize" stage of their weird religion
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SvtKronRNrw9AxXwa/clement-l-s-shortform?commentId=ZifQXkhxo5dJvrL3Q
I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book
Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?
balancing parentheses is why I draft all my comments in emacs
wow the sanewashing of trump in those threads is insane
About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonald's Necroville (Terminal Café in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.