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@nicweyand.com

• #1 Kyojuro Rengoku stan 🔥 • I have never misunderstood anything in my life. • I have never told a joke. Everything I post is deadly serious. • he/they • Somerville, MA • born 1993, making me younger than Taylor Swift (late 1980s, I think?)

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Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 2w ago

I keep seeing people ask what CNC is. Sorry in advance: Consensual Non-Consent is rape play. You and your partner(s) agree in advance to very few, or no limits during sex. So if someone says "No, stop", all parties agreed in advance to ignore that. Imo? CNC perfectly defines the AI bros.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w ago

So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

Sonia Joseph y @soniajoseph_ To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties— During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly. It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry. I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people. There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.
Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 2w ago

To avoid a monkeys paw situation: Sam Altman specifically. His firm has routinely broken into other company servers (that were reasonably secured from outside access). This *IS* illegal. "I didn't do it, the AI did" Okay but you run the company making the AI.

lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w ago

ianal but this all seems fairly straightforward cybercrime? I know we don't care about laws anymore, but start to again and start throwing people at openai in jail, and they'll stop doing it

Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 3w ago

I have learned that something that makes my 71yo Baba active and perk up is cringe comedy. So to get him moving on Labor Day I put on Scott's Tots, and he's both mortified and cleaning up his room.

Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 4w ago

no no no no no no NO no No NO NO NO no no no. why?!! no. you fucking kidding me? he learned what Bayesian means and made being smart his personality instead of just being smart. Where was I? Oh yeah: ew no no no no wtf no no no I'm a prison abolitionist but goddamn he challenges my beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh I missed this Once again I’m struck by the vacuous yet arrogant emptiness of these people, they are incurious and uncaring, and the world tells them they are special and wonderful for being like this

Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 4w ago

I feel like a lot of the daily Bluesky "problems" could be solved by learning how to ignore annoyances? You can just not read the nyt opinion pages. You can just avoid fox news. Idk why you do this to yourself? If it was "helping" why do you sound so angry and depressed all the time lmao idiot

Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · 4w ago

I remember last night my neighbor honestly thought 20 min was too early, even at 1% results in. I totally get it, but literally no one I know personally voted for Moulton. I cannot stress this enough: there's MANY, *MANY*, **MANY** things to loathe about Seth Moulton. May his soul find peace.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 4w ago

DDHQ Race Update (est. 52% in): Massachusetts US Senate Democratic Primary Edward Markey (D): 316,172 (64.2%) Seth Moulton (D): 176,066 (35.8%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/293201

Nic (complimentary)@nicweyand.com · last mo.

we really need a followup on this. I go back to the Club Q shooting in CO, which happened after increasingly intense rhetoric against Drag Queens. Then, as always, the conservatives basically forgot their responsibility and memory holed their role in what happened.

2022 Colorado Springs nightclub shooting - Wikipedia

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · last mo.

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

its a cover image of an april 2019 atlantic mag. a neon light bulb american flag signals no vacancy like a roadside motel. under the flag is a headline for david frum's cover story "How much immigration is too much?"