in that case aren't you a completely useless middleman now?

The technical term is ‘meat proxy’

Lesswrongers and real-world problems are like oil and water, exhibit A. Most fun thing I've read in a while

What kind of life leads you to this level of dysphoria projected on to everyone else? Somebody shove you in a locker too many times??

God I can’t believe I have to coexist with people like you.

Well... you don't really have to coexist

maybe that's because the doom and gloom is the transparently correct outcome?

Why? Even communists weren't this doomed and were actively rooting for it to solve the economic calculation problem which ai might take us to. People are just pessimistic in general ig

You should change your username to BoilingFrog

Talent is unnecessary due to AI development *

I also think the "main problem" is people that annoy me on the internet

oh my god did you see brian’s hat?

Oh, they're working to instate a dictatorship, they're not that bad...

For the record, I’m not saying this particular loser on twitter will ever have the power to institute a dictatorship.

But it is insane to say that EA and rationalism* are not about believing you are superior and more rational than your peers, or that most EA/rats don’t make an identity out of it (look at any of their online presences). Anthropic literally exists to funnel money and influence to its EA/rat cofounders and early investors, who sincerely believe that they and they alone are smart and rational enough to shepherd our society through its “technological adolescence”. I wish people who agree with this would at least be honest about it.