Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it
Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it
75% chance. The Guardian piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism Reportedly contains many factual errors: See https://x.com/ohabryka/status/1802563541633024280?t=8IhUv03x6PKq_r5MwLbPuA&s=19 Resolves yes if one or mo...
WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks
also we swear we totally didn't get your email
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I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/
What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?
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Is the header image on that page an intentional joke at the expense of GenAI, or did someone seriously make that and add it to the page? Do they autogenerate their pics?
i think they honestly think this shit is cool
Hard to know if "Contovicsy" is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.
The more I look, the more I'm sure it's just bad GenAI art. I mean, look at the random Big Ben with newspaper art extending into the ether behind it, the off-center knight-in-orb, the decomposed microscope thing, the physically impossible structural shadow on the disproportionate globe that simultaneously shows from Panama east to Borneo but somehow lacks India...
New Zealand has entered the chat
Do you think it was NZ? I kept trying to figure out what it was but because India was missing I was really unclear. I also guessed “extremely large New Guinea.”
“extremely large New Guinea.”
It's just got big bones
@gnomicutterance @o7___o7 Extremely Large New Guinea is a variant of Bigger Luke http://biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke
iirc (and rough neuron lookup here:) there’s a longstanding issue with entertainment etc mapmakers that leave NZ out of their maps
Just a conspiracy of cartographers then.
ah, I was remembering half correctly, and also lol. a conspiracy is now definitely the new mental collective noun I have for cartographers
More-crap-ter Projection
It's still hard to beat the dck pck
Contovicsy isn't a river in Ukraine.