Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)
Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready
crayon either way
that gives me questions about China
that's tomorrow's Pivot
Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys
IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly
the user has been gently directed to the debate club
the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers
Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence
The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.
oh no, not a eugenicist!
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Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
(pivot-to-ai.com)
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yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.