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Vishal talks about PlzDontKillUs and short form video culture. Plus AI Doom!

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Vishal’s Compute Cop video, and also all the rest

Wes joins us! We discuss Aella’s post The Other Sexual Orientation. Then we find fault with a Kegan-level-4 post about how CNC Kink should be disappeared.

LINKS
The Other Sexual Orientation
A Bad Tweet
The Sex & Sensibility Podcast
The Details of the HuggingFace Incident AI Message Board via Zvi

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00:02:32 – Follow-up on the HuggingFace Incident
00:14:56 – The Other Sexual Orientation
00:37:46 – A Bad Tweet
01:29:57 – Guild of the Rose
01:32:16 – Thank the Supporter!


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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

on hiatus. maybe returning someday.

Milo’s favorite video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8YYwlIWI2E
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Original video:

Jessiah Mellot talks about HPMOR, and the video essay he made about HPMOR for PlzDontKillUs.

Watch this on Youtube here

see Jessiah’s video essay here

First feedback, then we talk about OpenAI’s latest megamodel independently commiting cybercrime in a world-first incident. Then the Haters who hate altruism when it’s the outgroup’s charities. Also a brief nod to Stochastic Terrorism.

LINKS
Scott Alexander on the HuggingFace hack
The Effective-Altruism Comeback
Scanning Tons of Books
Against Stochastic Terrorism

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00:03:56 – Feedback
00:32:41 – HuggingFace Hack
00:51:48 – Effective Altruism Funding Flood
01:11:55 – Against Stochastic Terrorism
01:14:51 – Guild of the Rose
01:15:44 – Thank the Supporter!


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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

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We go through AI2040 Plan A in years.

LINKS
AI-2040
AskWho Casts Pro
Tomas Bjartur’s “The Company Man” and “The Origami Men”

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00:04:33 – AI-2040: Plan A
01:14:41 – Guild of the Rose
01:19:52 – Thank the Supporter!


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Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
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LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:

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