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Not really. If schools aren't spending as much on teachers, they have more budget to spend on his slop. This way, he has a narrative for hitting the doubtlessly ridiculous future growth projections someone in his position is compelled to peddle.

My perspective is that EA and the upper-class philanthropy it inherits from are consumerist, a system that rests on top of colonialism. It's basically selling spiritual consumer goods, much like the medieval Catholic Church selling indulgences (and look what that provoked!). Once we get beyond the public health interventions, into longtermist EA's "trillions of simulated minds in our future lightcone" bullshit, it's clearly selling an unhealthily narcissistic spirituality, though its adherents would never call it that. The product, in this case, is the warm fuzzy self-aggrandizing feeling that one can extend one's (over)privileged position in our relatively fragile 21st century society into influence over sci-fi-scale expanses of time and space.

I'm filing suit for copyright infringement AND breach of privacy, clearly they've been training on my personal webcam recordings.

I advocate for inclusion with equal-opportunity E. coli contamination, that's why I voted for RFK Jr. We can all spew together!

Maybe the robot can finally explain to me how Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" is actually music and not just somewhat organized noise?

I know AGI is real because it keeps intercepting my shipments of, uh, "enhancement" gummies I ordered from an ad on Pornhub and replacing them with plain old gummy bears. The Basilisk is trying to emasculate me!

Reminds me of how Scott Adams hedged in 2016 with all sorts of disclaimers that he wasn't really a Trump supporter, he was just impressed by a "master persuader." Now look at the guy.

At least they're all contained in a relatively confined space with limited routes of egress

For Yarvin, it always is and always will be someone else's fault

It is very important to notice and continually point out that these people appear to believe more fervently in their chosen demons than they do in their proclaimed god

I feel like I've seen chud weirdos ranting about seed oils suppressing testosterone levels, but I could be hallucinating

Hey, at least the professional Elon haters are actually doing their jobs, unlike the man himself