And here I was talking about Anthropic AI getting 580M from the ppl behind crypto fruad dumpsterfire everyone is seeing.
"$580M round led by Sam Bankman-Fried,...participation from Caroline Ellison, Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn & the Center for Emerging Risk Research"
Because our job is to ring the alarm & journalists' (like the @nytimes tech reporting) to do a post mordem after the promoting these ppl, reading yet another article by @xriskology & writing a thread. 🧵
Because you know, the most interesting things for us to do are talk about this cult over & over again. We have nothing better to do right?
"William MacAskill, the poster boy of longtermism & a moral "adviser" to Bankman-Fried, went on a media blitz after his book "What We Owe the Future" came out...even making an appearance on "The Daily Show."
And they'll ask "how did this happen" as if they didn't platform them.
Like, not only did so many people provide so many explanations, there are also myriads of papers, some we even wrote about 2 years ago, in a little paper that got us fired you know?
Fired from my job, with people citing my paper, which has been cited 1025 times btw, as "sub par"
Via @xriskology "Out-of-control artificial intelligence was another area of concern for Bankman-Fried – so much so that in September the Future Fund announced prizes of up to $1.5m...
"Nor will most of the millions...promised a constellation of charities & thinktanks affiliated with effective altruism, a once-obscure ethical movement that has become influential in Silicon Valley &...international business & political worlds."
Someone just shared this article with me. The New York Times has been doing the bidding of longtermists for a while. The way they've been promoting these people... Their tech reporting is not a check to power but a megaphone for the powerful.
"Among the silliest suck-ups came from the New York Times (5/14/22), in which David Yaffe-Bellany, the paper’s cryptocurrency correspondent, said that Bankman-Fried’s “pragmatic style” came from his parents, who “studied utilitarianism,...
an ethical framework that calls for decisions calculated to secure the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.”
"Malaria nets for African kids" as justification for everything.
I bet they're gonna have a Black leader, once the press scrutinizes MacAskill, to show us all how they're not racist.
Between the eugenics, the sexually predatory behavior, which hasn't even been reported on yet by the press, the longtermism ideology justifying current harm, even mentioning how the Holocaust wasn't really a big deal, yes the stay saving Black people's lives.