Key:
Things musk aligns with: ✅
Things musk does not align with: ❌
Neutral: 😐
Uhh, hmm. Fuck
I guess now that USAID is being defunded and the government has turned off their anti-russia/china propaganda machine, private industry is taking over the US hegemony psyop game. Efficient!!!
/s /s /s I hate it all
If Paris Marx is the little domino that causes total collapse of US hegemony, I’ll join the patreon at the highest tier forever
Early covid (july 2020) interview:
charitable take: he has the good sense to not make any major claims about the pandemic, other than to speculate that it would worsen his go-to metric of “extreme poverty”, which is… fine, i guess.
neutral take: nothing extraordinarily damning other than his usual takes.
uncharitable: this is of course early pandemic, so maybe pinker hasn’t found the angle to sell his normal shit with.
Side note: does pinker ever wonder about why extreme poverty has been reduced? I can’t imagine he thinks it’s anything other than liberal democracy and US foreign interference, when the real answer is like, China (a country that Pinker definitely believes is counter to said liberal democracy and the US) continuing to develop economically. Basically i want to him to squirm as he tries and fails to resolve the cognitive dissonance.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/08/comic-steven-pinker-certified-grief-counselor
I don’t keep this link on hand, I just google “pinker comic” and find it.
Pinker tries not to be a total caricature of himself challenge: profoundly impossible
specifically this caricature:
Has Klezra Ein ever used the term “useful idiot”?
David Gerard: keikaku.jpg
Tracing Woodgrains: malding
Well, I can see the distinction being important. I'm sure the adult baby/ageplay crowd don't want their good reputation stained by these chuds
Only big dum-dums wouldn't buy Dr. Swlabr's Brilliant, Life-Extending Snake Oil! Use it in a poultice, as a liniment, or as an emollient! The smartest use it instead of the fertility-sapping seed oils!
a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos
Is this… the perfect grift?
Abstracted abstract:
Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.
I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.
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Google, killing one of its products because their executives make shit decisions? Unheard of.