I read the NYT article about Slate Star Codex, and I don't like it. It traffics in a certain inaccurate, worn-out stereotype of Silicon Valley and the tech industry, and doesn't do a good job of describing the Rationalist subculture.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html …
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@jacob_r_schulz that article was trash i tell you! -
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is not an AI researcher. His stuff is pretty purely speculative.
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Seems like a definitional dispute.. splitting hairs. He’s a super smart guy trying to discover knew knowledge / ideas about AI. What would call it?
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The story you're telling with the data is reasonable... but on some level the question is: "in these interlocking groups of friends/associates who make up the investors/founders in bay area, how big is SSC for them?" and that's not captured here (i think?)
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Like I said...needs evidence!
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The correct synthesis is that rationalists are bad but not in a way that's reducible to something easily short-handed as like other bad things -- you actually have to talk about their ideas to describe why they're bad.
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Can we call them Rationalists so I can still think of myself as small-r rational?
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If you look at what tech actually does whether it’s FB/YT’s engagement at all costs even if it means genocide, Uber’s fight to destroy unions and replace them with gig contractors, use of discriminatory facial recognition by police, they show all excesses of modern capitalism
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no-one doxxed scott alexander siskind
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