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As we don’t have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is
Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.
But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.
And remember, no fed posting.
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A lotta people asking their ai assistant how to reap something other than what they sow these days…
So two thoughts:
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Per Saltman’s comments the improvised incendiary bounced off the side of the house rather than breaking and spreading the gas on the house proper. Apparently if you want the bottle to break the way you intend you gotta really just whang that thing because glass bottles are sturdier than you’d think.
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One thing I find ironic about his referencing the New Yorker article on him was that part of my takeaway from that article was how mundane he is, individually. Like, he’s a snake, but not in any way that isn’t pretty standard once you start getting that level of wealth and power. He credibly pretended to be a proper AI cultist for the critihype, and then as the rubber started hitting the road he pivoted towards the direction that gave him and the company more money, even if it meant sacrificing the values that it turns out a lot of other people really cared about (however dumb I might think they are). That’s shitty, but it’s shitty in the most boring way that so many things are in the rot economy, and it’s not like even if they had managed to kill Altman himself there wouldn’t be another bunch of enterprising sociopaths ready to move into the same position. That profile is one of the strongest pieces of evidence why even if you are a hardcore AI doom cultist you shouldn’t focus your ire on the man himself, because he’s just not that special.
A bit of broken spark plug in the bottle makes them break much easier.
Waterballoon molotovs.
And indeed on nr 2. Even sillier is of course that the AI doom people thought they could control people like this.
viton balloons are in. not sure who sells them. also wasn’t one of their imagined risks that robot god will manipulate people for robot god goals? they sorta should be primed to that
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From what appears to be the guy’s Substack:
East Asian people are on average more intelligent than Black people. Which is factual based on the vast majority of tests we have developed and observed over the decades.
And:
I am an advocate for ending mass migration and initiating mass deportations for illegal migrants in western countries. Not because I am a white supremacist (I am not white) or because I believe there is necessarily anything innately special about being white. I believe these things for three reasons. First, nations have the right to preserve their ethnic identity, and second low skill immigration saturates the job markets of these countries making jobs which could once earn a living wage become unlivable, increasing the amount of value draining people in society by both importing them and undercutting low skill natives. lastly, generally, whiteness in these countries is a decent correlative to some of the things I value.
And:
It is true that many of the features which white supremacist value have little to do with the genetic predisposition to European ancestry and instead have to do with higher IQ; which is relatively more common among whites than most other groups.
So, a common-or-garden guy who is not left-wing or right-wing but a secret third thing that is also right-wing.
The model of people as engines which add to or drain state revenues, and social welfare as handouts to inferiors not aid to people in certain life circumstances, reminds me of Kelsey Piper. Just where a CEO who does billions of damage in pollution and evades billions of dollars of taxes fits they don’t explain.
Oh so this guy fucking sucks eggs
when it’s two rat inflected guys with bad politics doing this sort of thing
How sad that Altman’s shell corporation’s property insurance has to pay for this guy’s tedious status anxiety
Ah, racist like my grandma. Make up a statistic, and your bigotry is suddenly scientific fact that you are regrettably forced to accept as population level facts.
“Though we may adore them individually, We must admit that as a group they’re rather stupid”
Sounds like your typical commenter on a lesswrong or Astral Codex Ten blog post.
The post after that is also a bit worrying
oh cool, a racist wacko. yay…
Wouldn’t put it past Altman to pull a Jussie Smollett style self attack to garner sympathy as his company goes down the drain.
too bad not really many people like him to begin with, just like with THIEL. elon has at least a fanbase, that he built up through the years with tesla.
garner sympathy
He posted a response that criticizes the recent news article about him (of all the times he has acted like a sociopathic liar), and HN was eating it up, so even if this isn’t an intentional false flag he is still playing it that way pretty effectively.
he learned from the best, THIEL.
There’s something different about Jeremy Clarkson in that meme, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Maybe ChatGPT told them to do it
¯\_(ツ)_/¯its ai on ai violence, probably thier competitor claude/anthropic
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Don’t forget to slash your slash \\ becomes \
E: wait the _ also needs to be slashed.
You need to write it like this:
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯Yeah, because putting _'s around something is another way to your text TIL and all that.
It’s a start.
Wait, if im recalling right a former StopAI activist went on the run after threatening an OpenAI lab and causing it to shut down, it mentions the suspect has threatened an OpenAI lab before so could it be the same guy??
If there were any doubts before this incident that Sam Altman is a sociopath, there can be none now.
well he was “created” by the “anti-christ” obsessed THIEL.
