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I'm starting to think some of these tech skeptics are only pretending to be skeptics.

Reading romance is great and I highly recommend it. The trick is to find the good ones.

Being an actual character in a romance would also be great (for a sufficiently high quality romance with a sufficiently peaceful setting, and assuming I get to keep free will and also keep living after the story ends -- ok that's a lot of caveats but how else would it work?).

The latest in the long line of human-hostile billboards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1o8s3lz/humanity_had_a_good_run_billboard/

https://dearworld.ai/

This is positioning itself as an AI doomer website; but it could also be an attempt at viral marketing. We'll see I guess.

That Wikipedia article is cursed:

For instance, in discussions on climate change mitigation, countries with lesser contributions to greenhouse gas emissions might still benefit from global efforts to reduce emissions, enjoying a stable climate without proportionally shouldering the costs of emission reductions.

I'm getting a lot of questions already answered by my "before anyone asks I'm pro LGBTQ and pro immigrant" shirt.

New AI alignment problem just dropped: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1976304803744501775

Best I can do now is try to make sure that at least one AI is truth-seeking and not a super woke nanny with an iron fist that wants to turn everyone into diverse women 😬

Edit: It only just now occured to me that hes' probably whining about generative AI rather than an army of superintelligent robots marching across the earth transing people, but I'm leaving my comment.

I tend to think of Toys (1992) for these sorts of themes though I haven't watched the film from start to finish since I was a kid. It's about the militarization of a wealthy family toy factory and has a lot of scenes that stuck with me.

It's a Christmas family movie that reviewed horribly so definitely counts as a cult classic, but those who like it tend to really like it.

The Call of Duty Cinematic Universe:

The article claims that Google didn't "fall for the same trap" but that's not correct, all this garbage is indeterministic so the author just got "lucky".

It's like saying "four out of five coin-flips claimed that an eagle was the first US president" -- just because the fifth landed on heads and showed George Washington doesn't mean it's any different than the rest.

But here I'm preaching to the choir.

Honestly Hanson is so awful the rationalists almost make him look better by association.

But wait I thought the reasoning AIs were going to come up with fantastical sci-fi solutions to all our global warming problems! Maybe we didn't shovel enough coal at them?