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  Also a year ago, Maximilian Bentley Snyder the Zizian dictated a [1,500 word manifesto](https://archive.ph/GErgG) telling Yudkowsky to become a vegan. These have not been published because murder cult but three of the Zizians have issued statements leaving just Ziz, Youngblut, Suri Dao, and [Alexander Jeffrey Leatham](https://openvallejo.org/2025/03/12/how-a-california-math-genius-spiraled-into-zizian-ideology-and-violence/) alive but silent. Two died after attacking outsiders, and two took the...

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  He does seem to list Kissinger as one of several "smart people" which is odd for a US military veteran. Lots of nonagenarians with PhDs say stupid shit.

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  Most of us: "she smells good and the sounds she makes when she gets excited grip something deep inside me" Tech Bros: "her vaginal microbiome is in the 99th percentile and her Verbal SAT is in the 95th percentile"

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  Who TF was using LED lights for indoor lighting in the 1990s? Compact flourescents were the lightbulb replacement in the oughties. And how TF do you write that post without using the phrase "sensory sensitivity" and citing some women who know they have autism? Once you know you are more sensitive to your environment than allistics, you can start to experiment with interventions.

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  [Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company iLearningEngines charged with fraud](https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-2026-04-17/) - Reuters, 17 April 2026 > Prosecutors said iLearning marketed itself as an artificial intelligence-driven digital education ​company with an "out-of-the-box AI platform," and claimed to earn revenue mainly by selling ​licenses for its educational and training platforms to customers, including healthca...

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  All the legal and regulatory uncertainties make it very hard to talk about the financial viability of chatbots. What do you do if your $20 billion model is shut down forever by court order after it counsels the wrong person into suicide? Piper can overlook this because she is a hack with patrons - to my knowledge, she has never been paid to write by anyone outside the EA world. If she were a working writer who had to deal with chatbots driving up the cost of her website, creating knockoffs of...

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  2007: Robin Hanson blogs about paternalism August 2025: Someone on [a mailing list](https://lwn.net/Articles/1031750/) suggests that the Debian instance with the off-colour jokes from 1980s hacker culture should be sold in: > A Store of Ill-Advised Consumer Goods (like described here: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/paternalism_is_html ) would be nice. Same for information. You read the warning, you enable it, you suffer, you're the one to blame. > > Alas, it only exists in Dath...

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  In 2024 Ozy Brennan was [indignant about Nonlinear Fund](https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/against-nonlinear), the ["incubator of AI-safety meta-charities"](https://awful.systems/post/220620) which lived as global nomads, hired a live-in personal assistant, asked her to smuggle drugs across borders for them, let a kind-of-colleague take her to bed, then did not pay her regularly and in full. > The correct number of times for the word “yachting” to occur in a description of an e...

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  It is a pity that we are not going to see a [Bits about Money](https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/) article on OpenAI since Patrick MacKenzie is Basilisk-curious. If OpenAI goes public with a lot of preferred shares liability, smart money is going to be reluctant to buy.

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  Is Trace (Tracing Woodgrains) the only one of our friends who has served in the military? A lot of neurodivergent young people spend some time in the US military and some of our friends were the right age to get in before the War on Abstract Nouns began.

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  While I tend to think Yudkowsky is sincere, some things like his prediction market for P(doom) are hard to square with that https://manifold.markets/EliezerYudkowsky/will-ai-wipe-out-humanity-by-2030-r (launched June 2023, will resolve N/A on 1 January 2027 if the world has not ended yet. It has not moved much since 1 January 2024)

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  An early hint of Gwern's rejection of chaos theory in [the sequences from 2008](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sYgv4eYH82JEsTD34/beyond-the-reach-of-god) (the "build God to conquer Death" essay): > And the adults wouldn't be in so much danger. A superintelligence—a mind that could think a trillion thoughts without a misstep—would not be intimidated by a challenge where death is the price of a single failure. The raw universe wouldn't seem so harsh, would be only anot...

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  They do have consequences! Crowded schools and preschools and daycare spread all kinds of dangerous infectious diseases and there are consequences of getting them. With the arrival of COVID and the decline in vaccination risks are rising. 'Getting sick builds resistance' is another of the folk medicine beliefs which we in the infection control community have been fighting since 2020. Some diseases are milder the second or third time, but generally you want to get as few infectious dise...

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  There is research on evangelicals in the USA who interpret Trump tweets like their heretical pastors teach them to interpret the Bible. Is there something similar on the vast contradictory off-the-cuff social media outputs of people like Yud and Islamic treatment of the Hadiths?