Andrew Orlowski
@AndrewOrlowski
Bursting your bubble every week at Daily Telegraph Biz: +The Critic, Mail, Spiked. Techno-utopian fantasy enjoyer since 2003
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Here’s another example of why some stories are illegible if they omit the EA Cult. The omission means they just don’t make any sense.
Imagine that Seventh Day Adventists rob your house, but then another bunch of Seventh Day Adventists show up, offering to help trace the stolen goods. If you knew they were associated, then you might have a few questions.
Almost every story that contains the phrase “AI Safety” now falls into this category. It’s a sort of anti-news. It looks like news but you’re guaranteed to be a lot more confused than you were before reading it.
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A paid shill complaining that giant AI companies can’t steal stuff for free.
She revives the old “it breaks the internet” meme. In 2012 I wrote a history of this phrase and how it was used to kill a similar publishing initiative that Google didn’t like.
Link in first comment below:
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An absolutely lethal observation from @CarissaVeliz on Effective Altruists.
There’s definitely a few archetypal physiognomies in EA/rationalism.
I’ve just been too busy to collect them. But here’s a couple:
