It gets worse, as the advisory doesn’t even mention to delete emails/pictures from the cloud, so the people who are likely to listen to these kinds of advices are also the people who are the least likely to understand why this is a bad idea and will delete their local stuff. (And that is ignoring that opening your email/gallery to delete stuff costs more than keeping it in storage where it isn’t accessed).

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

"HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME

• Install a rain butt [hehehe] to collect rainwater to use in the garden.
  … [other advice removed]
• Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."

That was what I meant, I was being a bit sarcastic there.

iirc it was in one of the episodes just after Trump had won and I was just listening and going ‘euh, think yall are a bit too joking about this’.

Yeah, I was very disappointed in the risky business guys who while initially skeptic at LLMs and very mad that after the christchurch neo-nazi shooting cloudflare protected them. Went to “well Trump’16 wasn’t that bad on cybersecurity, and project 2025 is also pretty good, even if a bit odd in tone, we will have to stay positive and wait and see Haha!” and being a bit more into AI hype. (the latter pays a lot of their bills of course).

And look at this AI critic/sysadmin who also is for sale (yes, this bit is joking from my end).

Meanwhile, the right-wing prepper types were breaking out the N95 masks they’d stockpiled for a pandemic

This included Scott ssc btw. Who also claimed that stopping smoking helped against cov. Not that he had any proof (the medical science at the time even falsely (it came out later) claimed smoking helped agains covid). But only the CDC gets judged, not the ingroup.

And other Scott blamed people who sneer for making covid worse. (While at sneerclub we were going, take this seriously and wear a mask).

So annoying Rationalists are trying to spin this into a win for themselves. (They also were not early, their warnings matched the warnings of the WHO, looked into the timelines last time this was talked about).

But maybe the security guys should be getting into AI.

Sadly in my exp the security people are getting more and more into using LLMs for various stuff. Could also just be because that is where all the money is now.

I have not tried it yet, but apparently there is an open source alternative for github called https://codeberg.org/. Might be useful.

Wait, but if they lied about that… what else do they lie about?

I’m still thinking about the article about the NRx party from last week and just how classless (who pours champagne wrong?) and sad it showed them to be, while still being obsessed with their image. Such a sad bunch, their ideas have reached the higher ups of American power and still they obsess about how a journalist (who is dating one of them (he is into the ‘we live in a simulation’, break up with him, you are in danger)) might write something bad about them. (See also how many of these sad sacks got fired/blackballed for just having no internal filter (dressing up gay people as the KKK really?)). The creme de la creme of intellectual thought and they talk and act like a bunch of 4channers. (Yarvin must know this, his shit about how billionaires act must be a bit of projection). I’m talking about this piece: https://archive.ph/gm3Za Sorry to repost it, I just had a ‘layer 2 well done’ reminder and cringed again, fucking larpers (No shade to people who actually larp, seems fun, just cringe to do it irl).

Im old enough to recall the polyphasic sleep fad. And how that wrecked people if they ever messed up. (Iirc also turns out very bad implications for long term health).

If you do not understand what the Psychopomp is talking about, that is on you not him dear commenter.

If you do not understand what the Psychopomp is talking about, that is on you not him dear commenter.

Yeah, its because he is simply borrowing Christian Fundamentalists Eschatological terminology… possibly to try to turn the Christofascists against EA?

Yep, the usefulness of EA is over, they are next on the chopping block. I’d imagine a similar thing will happen to redscare/moldbug if they ever speak out against him.

E: And why would a rich guy be against a “we are trying to convince rich guys to spend their money differently” organization. Esp a ‘libertarian’ “I get to do what I want or else” one.

Fullsquares Basilisk. Either yud stops writing, or we commit to building a basilisk which forces 2^^^2 copies of fullsquare to read more Yud. And this does more damage than a dustspeck.

Im only on the normal parts of reddit, so had no idea.

Check out this sneer on the EA subreddit

“I’m employed, can someone explain what either of these mean?”

The whole joining of the fascist side by a lot of the higher ups of the tech world, combined with the long-standing debate bro both sides free speech libertarianism (but mostly for neonazis, payment services do go after sex work and lgbt content) also did not help the rep of STEM, even if those decisions are made by STEM curious people and not actually STEM people. billionaires want you to know they could have done physics - Angela Collier

Having one of the duo just step out would also be amusing. Esp if they full chaos and roll twice.

Weak mods create bad times! Bust a deal, face the wheel!

Ah now I get it. Lol, yes. Would be amusing of they banned Yud from lw/ssc events like they did to other predators. (and that is the bans we know of).