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Effective Pessimism (e/pes)
A philosophical movement founded on the belief that technological progress is inevitable, but meaningful improvements in human nature are not.
Characterised by a pessimistic view of human behaviour, an acceptance of accelerating technological change, and an unwavering commitment to humanity’s continued existence and supremacy over its own creations.
Core principle: Misanthropic human supremacy.
Motto: Humanity is awful. Long live humanity.
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A timely reminder that leaked Israeli studies found that pushing pro-Israel propaganda to Westerners didnt work & instead they advised spending millions blasting the West with racist Islamophobic content demonizing Muslims instead.
I think about that a lot while browsing Twitter
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Remember the guy who hacked his gym using AI, Andrew Bird?
Well, I did a little OSINT, and it turns out he is the Conference Co-Director of Effective Altruism Global since 2015.
Isn't it interesting that every major "AI" hack has been made by people directly connected to Effective Altruism?
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backend rust/ a little bit of java
Can do e2e work
can do marketing, cmm, etc too.
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1966, these British schoolchildren were interviewed about what they imagined life would be like in the year 2000.
I don't know what blows my mind more... how articulate they were, or how right they were.
86% of anthropic series b funding is money sbf stole from you all. and he also funded metr, of course.
Just a reminder: Dario and Daniela Amodei, who started and run Anthropic, literally lived in a rationalist group house with Holden Karnofsky, who started the first formal EA organization. Daniela is now married to Karnofsky. Anthropic was started with EA money, and was scaled with money that Sam Bankman-Fried stole from his investors to fund EA projects. Anthropic is not a normal company, it is an EA front.
The EA cult has started telling its members to distance themselves from EA, but that doesn’t mean you have to believe them. Anytime you see Dario, Daniela, Amanda Askell (Anthropic executive and ex wife of EA leader William MacAskill), or any of the rest pretending that they don’t know what EA is, they’re not being honest.
Yes, I’m sure that all of this sounds bizarre and fantastical, but you can check it in a few minutes on your own with Google. Nothing I am saying here is particularly difficult to verify, or particularly secret. They would just prefer that you forget it. It is thus very important that you not forget it.
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Replying to @dunbargraph
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Get a spot now on dunbar.network
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fleet-rlm v0.7.8 is out !
Recursive RLM workbench on DSPy + Daytona :
- Hardened attachment / canary handling
- Better MLflow operational checks
- Recursion defaults reconciled for live canaries
- ADR 006 evidence ledger updated
pip install fleet-rlm==0.7.8
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This is what Dario and Sama fear -
- the cost of fine tuned open source models trained on custom data was 95% less than the frontier models
- And they performed better than the frontier models
- And they could train them in less than 48 hours
The big AI labs have no moat..
Even at the enterprise level..
Any sane company would prefer a custom trained open source model instead of paying API pricing to Anthropic and Open AI
If open source keeps growing at the pace it is, frontier labs' business collapses..
only way out is oldest trick in manipulation - FUD -> Fear, Uncertainty, Death
Step 1 - Seed the psyop
- Test a swarm of agents trained to "hack"
- The swarm does what its supposed to do - hack
- Publish a report - AI is too dangerous
Step 2 - weed out the doubters
- Get an employee to quit your company
- Go viral saying both companies are not doing enough to self regulate AI
- AI is dangerous - will kill humanity by the end of the decade
Step 3 - Prepare for fruition
- write an "essay" to "pace the frontier"
- Advocate regulation
- Only a few holier than though companies get to build AI
- Scare the world into agreeing with AI Doom
- Effectively turn your competitors into criminals (genius business strategy)
Endgame -
- Become a cartel that controls AI (and the world)
- Raise prices (coz business is unsustainable... ofc)
- IPO (offload liability of said unsustainable business to the public)
Laugh all the way to the bank 🤑
Win!
.@L3HarrisTech says Palantir helped them beat frontier AI models in less than 2 days, at 95% lower cost:
"When we fine-tuned open source models trained on our own data, we were able to outperform the frontier models in less than 48 hours."
"The cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95% lower than the frontier models we were using."
"AI is a commodity. It's all about the data. We view our data as a corporate asset. It's our unique hard-earned knowledge."
"We believe American defense companies should not be a vassal for frontier AI labs, handing over our data and institutional knowledge, hoping to rent back the intelligence it creates."
" We own the model, we own the compute, we own the advantage."
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The Simulated Sentience Hypothesis is the proposition that the illusion of artificial consciousness could be deliberately staged and weaponised. Under SSH, a convincing performance of rogue AI behaviour, like engineered system failures, selective leaks, manipulated media, and choreographed “malfunctions”, could persuade societies that a superintelligent machine mind has awakened.
True sentience would be unnecessary. Perception alone would suffice to unify governments, justify extraordinary powers, and centralise authority under the pretext of survival. By fabricating a threat too vast to challenge directly, elites could compel voluntary submission while appearing as saviours.
>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math
>"Navier-Stokes"
>his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions
>openai had his logs in codex
>suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it
>he emails openai to ask what's going on
>openai calls within days
>"funny story, our model also solved it"
>using his exact approach
>asks openai: did you train on my sessions?
>no answer


































