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the best piece on peter's antichrist lecture series by a wide margin. if you're interested in what he actually said and thinks, rather than what a journalist who hates him and received some third hand notes believes he might have said, check out the latest from pirate wires:
For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thielās secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thielās blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
piratewires.com/p/inside-petā¦
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I attended Peter Thiel's lectures on the Antichrist in Nashville. He let me write about it. Live now on @PirateWires.
For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thielās secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thielās blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
piratewires.com/p/inside-petā¦
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For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thielās secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thielās blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
piratewires.com/p/inside-petā¦
.@gb_rango went to the Nashville Antichrist Lectures
For months, everyone has been talking about Peter Thielās secretive Antichrist lectures in Nashville. @gb_rango attended all four off-the-record lectures, held inside the historic Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons.
Now, with Thielās blessing: a comprehensive, firsthand reconstruction of his sprawling theory of the end times, from AI doomers and one-world government to the fate of America.
piratewires.com/p/inside-petā¦
Casey and co. are excellent
Ever since launching our integration with @Substack, itās been incredible to see how top podcast publishers are using @Listener to track their omni-channel campaigns.
Working alongside the @PirateWires team has been a highlight (shoutout to @planetmaxwell and the entire PW team!).
When they relaunched their podcast, they brought on some incredible brand partners, including @joinautopilot, @MonacoGTM, and @EightSleep. With Listener.com, they track every episode and campaign across audio, YouTube, social, and newsletter in one place.
Substack publishers are some of the most impactful podcasters out there because of their deep communities, and weāre grateful to be working with many of the top publishers like PW.
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read this if you saw people posting incessantly about AI āinterpretabilityā and donāt know what that means or why Yudkowsky was mad about it
Could we prevent AI from killing us if we... simply understood how it works?
Former OpenAI researcher @nickcammarata recently argued that understanding AIās āreasoningā is more possible than we thought. Does this mean itās easier to control?
@gb_rango breaks down the debate š
wherein the data center psyop pits earnest coloradans against one another
We followed a founder trying to build the most reasonable data center project in America: a dozen shipping container-sized boxes on a remote plot of sand in rural Colorado. No water. No noise. The local electric co-op says it'll lower power bills.
You might expect the approval process to be straightforward. It wasnāt.
As @JonasYDu reports:
In September, over 60 residents packed a county office in rural Colorado (pop. 7,000), to question David Meyer (@thedmeyer), 29, whose startup Strata (@DeployStrata) wants to build modular data centers in neighboring Alamosa County š§µ
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The next "Quality Learing Center" will be found & exposed using America.gov/fraud
See fraud? It's time to expose it.
Report fraud, waste, and abuse to the federal government š² America.gov/fraud
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This is my favorite, indulgent, sci fi series
Hopefully the movies capture that
A āRED RISINGā movie is in the works at Paramount
ā¢ Francis Lawrence (āThe Hunger Games: Catching Fireā) set to direct
ā¢ The story follows a young miner living on Mars who attempts to bring down the color-coded class system
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/moviesā¦)
āIt is then no surprise that these people would be terrified of the antisocial potential of AI, for it represents a projection of their own high-decoupling mentality (separating Moral Thing from Rational Thing) run to its logical conclusion (Rational Thing kills everyone).ā ā @jane_gatsby
Itās easy to find sensationalized, low-brow, bad-faith writing about ārationalistsā in the AI world.
But is there perhaps a more sincere way of scrutinizing the worldview of the people at the heart of this movement: one that is currently shaping public discourse, policy proposals, and alignment research?
In this earnest philosophical inquiry, @jane_gatsby explores: why are so many rationalists convinced AI will kill everyone while also participating in practices like āconsensual non-consentā orgies? What could possibly explain the overlap?
She offers three theories, culminating in: relational wounds.
For rationalists, some of whom grew up with highly religious and/or disturbed parents, discomfort in the face of uncertainty fuels a fixation on control. This manifests in everything from elaborate, unconventional, kinky bedroom practices to AI alignment. Repressed desires and fears find increasingly extreme outlets.
As Jane puts it: āwhat is artificial intelligence if not an Other of potentially cosmic significance who is impossible to predict or constrain?ā
These are just theories. But rationalistsā influence on AI discourse is undeniable, and their worldview, as Jane argues, is āmetaphysically nihilistic.ā
There are other, more productive ways to approach AI development besides treating the models as some evil, adversarial force.
Besides: āYou cannot successfully align something when your own perspective is crooked.ā Full piece threaded š
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Step 1: don't be insane
Step 2: read the @PirateWires voting guide for ppl who aren't insane
Step 3: VOTE !!!!
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"We believe things should just be normal: the schools and the trains should be great, and their budgets should be balanced, the mentally ill drug addicts should be cared for in facilities safely removed from the public, the business climate should be open and free, it should be inexpensive to build in the city, anti-housing policies should be eradicated, and crime should be illegal."
For more endorsements, including for candidates who donāt want to burn down SF and California writ large... check out our full San Francisco Voter Guide. For people who arenāt insane. š
piratewires.com/p/a-san-franā¦
Career trajectory:
Salesforce implementations
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read it, share it, save the city: a san francisco voter guide for people who aren't insane piratewires.com/p/a-san-franā¦
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Have the rationalists neglected to account for Fermiās Paradox? Their own doom stories feature aliens, says @micsolana ā but if intelligent life emerges naturally and inevitably builds superintelligence, a misaligned ASI should be tearing through the galaxy. So where is it?
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.@Joey_tuccio makes a sharp point here: Watch how the groups profiting from Skid Row respond to these arrests.
One to watch: the taxpayer-funded 'Skid Row Care Campus,' whose free needle exchange became a hub for drug dealers. The federal raid centered just across the street.
Thursday morning, federal agencies conducted a massive drug sweep across Skid Row, arresting 23 suspects in a long-awaited crackdown on the area's massive organized drug trade.
@nicolewizman1 reported live from the scene with Skid Row public advocate @joey_tuccio as the operation unfolded.