#rationalists — Public Fediverse posts

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down - Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/technology/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-book.html #rationalists(philosophicalmovement) #ifanyonebuildsiteveryonedies.(book) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #booksandliterature #yudkowskyeliezer #openailabs #soaresnate

“Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?”, Asterisk (https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/why-are-there-so-many-rationalist-cults).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877076

#Rationalists #LessWrong #Cults

The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion - The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/rationalists-ai-lighthaven.html #rationalists(philosophicalmovement) #audio-neutral-informative #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #buildings(structures) #religionandbelief #bankman-friedsam #yudkowskyeliezer #openailabs #altruism #muskelon

"you must not take the #rationalists seriously or allow them to gain #traction on this #website. that is #death. that is death for us all"

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/790712576323600384

#BehindTheBastards covers The Zizians, #Rationalists, and the increasingly bizarre belief systems out of the tech community that are fertile grounds for culty behavior.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000698710498

It always ends up the same way, "I should do what I want, and I want to do cruel, weird shit to other people without their consent"
Yawn.

#Zizians #LessWrong #Rationalists

Before killings linked to fringe group, ‘Ziz’ led fateful tugboat trip

#BayArea #SFBayArea #rationalists #ziz

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/ziz-rationalist-killings-tugboat-20138991.php

apparently today is the 25th anniversary of the release of The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. Could be wrong. But anyway, putting it on, strikes me that they ahve mcuh more cogent thoughts about AI safety than any of the rationalists/techbros
#ai #flaminglips #techbros #rationalists #rationalism

My friend Mark is doing a talk today at the #Rationalists that’s about all the cults he’s joined this year. 😂

proof that the #rationalists are either time-travellers, or constantly duelling immortals like in Highlander: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DtcbfwSrcewFubjxp/the-rationalists-of-the-1950s-and-before-also-called

Silicon Valley’s Safe Space - Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html #freedomofspeechandexpression #blogsandblogging(internet) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley(calif) #scienceandtechnology #writingandwriters #raceandethnicity #slatestarcodex #astralcodexten #namespersonal #womenandgirls #siskindscott #rationalists

Ok, definitely geeking out here, but I just learned that one of my favorite bloggers (Scott Alexander of http://slatestarcodex.com/) just linked to my Mastodon Is Better than Twitter blog post (https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/).

I know that probably didn't bring as many people to the fediverse as when that post was on the #hackerNews front page, but it's personally *way* more exciting—it's very cool to get a link from someone I admire!

Any other #rationalists come because of that post (or here at all)?