Does someone have a 100 word summary of the whole affair?
My impression is that two nonlinear employees were upset that they weren’t getting paid enough and had hurt feelings about some minor incidents like not getting a veggieburger, so they wrote some mean blog posts about the Nonlinear leadership, and the Nonlinear leadership responded that actually they were getting paid enough (seems to amount to something like $100k/yr all in) and that they’d mostly made it up.
Is that accurate?
Roko
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Long post on eugenics, −1 points right now and lots of comments disagreeing.
Looks like this is a political battle; I’ll skip actually reading it and note that these kinds of issues are not decided rationally but politically, EA is a left-wing movement so eugenics is axiomatically bad.
From a right-wing point of view one can even see it as a good thing that the left is irrational about this kind of thing, it means that they will be late adopters of the technology and fall behind.
There’s lots of helium in the solar system. You could harvest the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn for it. Obviously this has an energy cost, but s stated in the article energy is the only real resource that we use up. Everything else is renewable.
You would miss out on the “Crossposted from LessWrong. Click to view X comments.” button at the bottom, but you can also add an identical comment manually.
Oh, I see. So there isn’t much difference.
Stuxnet, not Skynet: Humanity’s disempowerment by AI
If I did that, comments from EA will not show up on LW. But that is a good fallback. It seems that a crosspost has better functionality, and the 100 karma barrier seems a bit silly since I have 4500 karma on LW. But if that’s the best thing that’s possible, I will do that.
Earth is not running out of resources
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In what way, specifically?