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Bostrom did a weird authoritarian longtermist suggestion.

(this is why im not a huge fan of the tescreal term, as this muddies the water quite a lot as this is a longtermist 'what about the tiny existential risk' thing rubbing against the transhumanist biohacking style stuff).

Sorry no nitter as I forgot the correct url (and also I heard the people behind the new nitter might suck a lot, as in they might be far right, but only heard that once so please don't take that as a confirmation, and more a me asking about it).

TIL that Neoreaction A Basilisk has a tag on AO3. Only two works so far, but I'm sure we can improve on that.

Jacob Silverman:

If you went to Effective Altruism parties in Berkeley in last 10-12 years, I'd like to talk to you. Glad to speak on background. Thanks.

Jacob is at [email protected]. I can personally recommend him as a good guy and honourable journalist. He co-wrote "Easy Money" with Ben McKenzie, the story of the recent crypto bubble.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/ is an absolute delight

Unity has a new CEO

here's the cliffnotes:

• he's a former EA executive, responsible for their mobile business
• after that, he was COO of Zynga, a very good very ethical company making mobile games
• he wants to "help accelerate the Company’s revenue growth and profitability"
• Unity recently laid off about 25% of their workforce (1800 people)

I sure wonder what great changes he will implement, exciting times ahead for ~~Unity~~Godot!

some fucking wild promptfondlers commenting on an LWN article about Gentoo banning AI pull requests. Thankfully LWN has enough readers who know how a computer fucking works to answer them correctly.

Effective Altruists still trying to psych each other up to shoot Torres (archive)

this is the "Mark Fuentes" article again, evidently he thinks it didn't get enough traction

the comments are amazing and yet utterly predictable. Torres is being bad faith in accusing the one-issue pseudonymous account of being bad faith. EAs are very left wing u kno. Race science is well worth our time to consider. etc. they're gonna beat the accusations by enthusiastically confirming every one

The Post Millennial hacked, FUCKING WHOOPS

text of tweet from vx-underground:

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Yesterday evening The Post Millennial, a Canadian conservative news website, was compromised. The landing page was defaced, displaying the transgender flag, as well as making a satirical post mocking conservative author and social media commentator Andy Ngo.

The Threat Actor(s) responsible for the compromise leaked information on 39,850 subscribers to the website. The leaked information includes:

• Gender
• Name
• Display name
• Nick name
• E-mail address
• Phone number
• Address
• Password
• Subscriber details (payment information)
• 'Daleted' – a boolean field incorrectly spelled
  and more...

Passwords are in plain text. Payment information does not display credit card information. Payment information displays preferred payment method (e.g. PayPal, Credit Card, Debit Card) and currency used (e.g. CAD, USD). Some fields are optional such as telephone number or address. Additionally, this leak unveils some information on government representatives across the globe – including United States government personnel. This displays their contact information in plain text.

Also, the Threat Actor(s) leaked information on authors for The Post Millennial editors. We are not sure on the validity of this data, unless this website has 761 editors. Editor information disclosure shows:

• Username
• IP Address
• Phone number
• Country
• Email address
• Name

Image 1. Snippet of leaked subscriber information
Image 2. Snippet of leaked editor information
Image 3. Defaced website and satirical post

Note:

• No Threat Actor(s) have taken credit for the compromise

• Individuals reviewing the data suspect the parent company, Psyclone Inc, may have been the initial access point. Evidence supporting this is debug data present in The Post Millennial database dump as well as adjacent website HumanEvents going offline – however this still remains speculation.

• The compromise of The Post Millennial is clearly politically motivated. Please be civil.

====

and in conclusion: lololol

they also got humanevents.com and bonginoreport.com

for all your life size cardboard cutout Sam Bankman-Fried needs

https://standeestore.com/products/copy-of-aaron-judge-ny-yankees-70-tall-cardboard-cutout-standee-party-decor-67

(that URL sure tells a story in itself)

CW: embarrassing srs take:

The way LLM boosters talk about GPTs reminds me of how one of my kids tried to convince himself that his stuffies are really alive.

The desire to believe is so unsettling to me. They're desperately trying to fill a hole in their life where family, friends, culture, or religion should be. My first instinct would be compassion if it weren't for all of the economic dislocation and fascism.

Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

In which the Orange Site is a very bad influence on some minors:

How do you evaluate “factuality” without knowing all the facts, though? That’s the downfall of all such services - eventually (or even immediately) they begin to just push their preferred agenda because it’s easier and more profitable.

Hi there, thank you for your feedback! I think we could potentially go down the route of a web3 approach where we get the public consensus on the facts.

...

Your first meta-problem to solve is to get people to care about the facts, and to accept them when they’re wrong. There is an astonishing gap between knowing the truth and acting accordingly.

Yea, that's why we also added in an grammar checker, even if they dont care about facts, they can get something better than gram marly that checks for way more for way less.