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InvestigationCone

@investigationcone.bsky.social

He/him. gmail: investigationcone I follow fighting games, play a variety of things, dabble poorly in many types of art, know a lot of semi-useless science facts, and follow at least one Vtuber 💢

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Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d ago

That Converse ad is fucking yikes. I saw the picture while scrolling my feed and my instant reaction before I even read anything around it was “why the fuck is there a lynching picture popping up in my social media”

Paul F. Tompkins@pftompkins.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people. A building. @treewarrior.bsky.... maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d ago

"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

wsj.com

Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4d ago

(WHAT'S THE STORY) MONSTER BIG 12 GLORY? INTERNATIONAL WEMBLEY SICKOS. THE SICKOS COMMITTEE GAME OF THE WEEK IT'S ARIZONA STATE 🔱 🆚 KANSAS 🌾 Saturday | 11:00 AM Central | FS1

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List for Week 3. The graphic is an Oasis album cover parody featuring the text: (What's the Story) Monster Big 12 Glory?, showing the Kansas Jayhawk and Arizona State Sun Devil mascots walking down a street, with the Sickos Committee Game of the Week details: Arizona State vs. Kansas, Saturday, 11:00 AM Central, FS1.
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4d ago

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List Rankings - Week 3 Please keep in mind this is a forecast and we will monitor if conditions change during the games. WE RANK FBS 🆚 FBS GAMES ONLY WATCH 🧵 ⬇️ Games Ranked 37th - 20th

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List for Week 3. The graphic features the Sickos Committee Alert System Watch tier on an orange background, listing games ranked 37th through 20th: 37. New Mexico at Oklahoma, 36. Louisiana Tech at Baylor, 35. Georgia State at UCF, 34. Kentucky at Texas A&M, 33. SMU at Louisville, 32. UAB at Ragin Cajuns, 31. Fresno State at San Jose State (Night Cap 1 10pm), 30. BYU at Colorado State, 29. USC at Rutgers, 28. Houston at Texas Tech (Friday Night SWC), 27. East Carolina at Old Dominion, 26. Virginia Tech at Maryland (Not an ACC game), 25. West Virginia vs. Virginia (Duke Mayo Classic), 24. Marshall at Missouri State, 23. Stanford at Duke (Only on the CW), 22. Florida State at Alabama, 21. NC State at Vanderbilt, and 20. Florida at Auburn.
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4d ago

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List Rankings - Week 3 Please keep in mind this is a forecast and we will monitor if conditions change during the games. WE RANK FBS 🆚 FBS GAMES ONLY ADVISORY 🧵 ⬇️ Games Ranked 56th - 38th

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List for Week 3. The graphic features the Sickos Committee Alert System Advisory tier on a yellow background, listing games ranked 56th through 38th: 56. Western Kentucky at Indiana (Peacock), 55. UTEP at Michigan, 54. Buffalo at Penn State, 53. Kent State at Ohio State, 52. Akron at Minnesota, 51. Arkansas State at TCU, 50. Michigan State at Notre Dame (Megaphone), 49. Georgia at Arkansas, 48. UTSA at Texas (Another Battle of I-35), 47. Troy at Missouri, 46. Bowling Green at Iowa State, 45. Northern Illinois at Arizona, 44. Kennesaw State at Tennessee, 43. Tulane at Kansas State, 42. Ball State at Liberty, 41. Utah State at Utah (Battle of the Brothers), 40. Miami at Wake Forest (Friday Night ACCtion), 39. Georgia Southern at Jacksonville St, and 38. Eastern Michigan at Wisconsin (Peacock).
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4d ago

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List Rankings - Week 3 Please keep in mind this is a forecast and we will monitor if conditions change during the games. WE RANK FBS 🆚 FBS GAMES ONLY WARNING ⚠️ 🧵⬇️ Games Ranked 19th - 2nd 🥈

The Sickos Committee Weekly Game Watch List for Week 3. The graphic features the Sickos Committee Alert System Warning tier on a red background, listing games ranked 19th through 2nd: 19. North Texas at Texas State (Characters Welcome), 18. North Dakota St at Sacramento St (Newbies), 17. Miami Ohio at Cincinnati (Victory Bell), 16. Mississippi State at South Carolina, 15. North Carolina at Clemson (Anxiety Bowl), 14. Ohio at South Alabama, 13. FIU at Florida Atlantic (Shula Bowl), 12. LSU at Ole Miss (Magnolia Bowl), 11. Western Michigan at Rice, 10. Temple at Toledo (Days of MACTION Past), 9. James Madison at San Diego State (The CW), 8. Nevada at Middle Tennessee, 7. Purdue at UCLA (Night Cap 2, 10pm C), 6. Coastal Carolina at Delaware (10:30am C?!), 5. Syracuse at Pittsburgh (Thursday Rivalry), 4. UConn at Southern Miss, 3. Colorado at Northwestern (Last Game on the Lake), and 2. Wyoming at Central Michigan.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 4d ago

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4d ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future. To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal. Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 4d ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future. To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal. Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🌲🇵🇸@thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 5d ago

Virginia is not a blue state. And yet the governor didn’t sacrifice trans kids on the altar of the consultant class. Everyone loves it. Fuck all these milquetoast libs going “we have to be transphobic having principles we stand for is hard”

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 6d ago

Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender

WIRED@wired.com · 5d ago

A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days. www.wired.com/story/hacker...

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.

wired.com

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 6d ago

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing @realizingerin I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse