I take it you haven’t heard of miricult.com, because this isn’t the first time evidence has come out of Yudkowsky being a pedophile. Some of us even know the identity of the victim.

Still, crazy that Yudkowsky was (successfully) blackmailed for pedophilia in 2014 but still kept it up

Damn, I missed this and now the comment is deleted. Do you happen to remember what he said?

Yeah, I think Rolling Stone was worried about getting sued and omitted Helm’s name in the first draft (or something like that).

I know who the alleged victim was, and I think there probably was a crime and blackmail payments but the alleged victim didn’t want to come forward for a number of reasons (among other things, he’s still part of the rationalist community and has faced a lot of harassment from the public after an unrelated newspaper article outed him as being trans). I’d also point out that the only person that miricult directly accused of statutory rape was one of Yudkowsky’s employees rather than Yudkowsky himself. That being said, the journalist who wrote the Rolling Stone article claims she got a copy of the police report Helm filed and only Yudkowsky was named.

Even if miricult was total bullshit I’m confident that the alleged victim was lying about not being exploited by other rationalists; a few years later he and a couple of other people posted accounts of being sexually abused by a rationalist (unrelated to miricult) and it led to the abuser being ostracized from the rationalist community.

Anyways I know a lot more about this but I’d rather not discuss the details on a publicly viewable forum to protect the privacy of the people involved.

Sorry, don’t know how that happened

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/why-your-children-shouldnt-be-your

When they made an alt-right equivalent of Patreon they called it “Hatreon”. This stuff is like a game to them.

Exactly

I’d say it’s half-serious satire; she did end up dating a “high net-worth individual”, after all.

If Caroline Ellison hadn’t been in an actual relationship with a “high net-worth individual” I would have said it was just straightforward satire, but given the context I think she’s using mask of irony to pretend she isn’t revealing her true self.

Her words may be satirical, but her actions were more like “this but unironically”.

Here is the document that mentions EA as risk factor, some quotes below

Fourth, the defendant may feel compelled to do this fraud again, or a version of it, based on his use of idiosyncratic, and ultimately for him pernicious, beliefs around altruism, utilitarianism, and expected value to place himself outside of the bounds of the law that apply to others, and to justify unlawful, selfish, and harmful conduct. Time and time again the defendant has expressed that his preferred path is the one that maximizes his version of societal value, even if imposes substantial short term harm or carries substantial risks to others… In this case, the defendant’s professed philosophy has served to rationalize a dangerous brand of megalomania—one where the defendant is convinced that he is above the law and the rules of the road that apply to everyone else, who he necessarily deems inferior in brainpower, skill, and analytical reasoning.

“post-rationalists”, essentially just rationalists who reject Yudkowksy’s anti-woo stance

I should probably confess I didn’t actually read the longer ones all the way through, for the reason you just demonstrated.

Yeah, seems doubtful they’d get along though I imagine both groups were present based on what I know of the rationalists.

Also lol at the gender ratio.

I should have said at least two sex offenders.

In other threads people are saying the victim was his 9 year old stepdaughter, but who knows?

Apparently Aella and Robin Hanson showed up at vibecamp too, I guess it’s a big deal for the greater rationalist community.

I apologize if you saw my post before the current edit, I was similarly confused.

To clarify, there are actually two sex offenders, Brent Dill ( @HephaistosF) and a friend of his, @chaosprime (haven’t discovered the real name yet). Someone recently posted @chaosprime’s criminal record showing that he was convicted of sexual assault in 2000.

SEO will pillage the commons.

My personal conspiracy theory (not sure if I actually believe this yet):

The idea that people would use generative AI to make SEO easier (and thus make search engine results worse) was not an unfortunate side effect of generative AI, it was the entire purpose. It’s no coincidence that OpenAI teamed up with Google’s biggest rival in search engines; we’re now seeing an arms race between tech giants using spambot generators to overwhelm the enemy’s filters.

The decision to make chatGPT public was not about concern for openness (if it was they would have made the earlier versions of GPT public too), it’s more that they had a business partner lined up and Google search had become enshittified enough that they thought they could pull off a successful “disruption”.

edit: The first draft of this comment was inaccurate, I was confused about what happened before because of a misleading tweet but I think I understand now. Anyways I found the background check tweet they’re referring to: https://nitter.net/mimi10v3/status/1737273351016525986

Also the occultist sex bakery guy has been weighing in on the drama: https://nitter.net/Morphenius/status/1736956594582368429

Since TPOT is defending sex offenders now I decided to go through more of Brent’s old livejournal and archive everything that seemed sufficiently creepy for the purposes of documenting it:

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/6657.html

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/7199.html

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/7547.html

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/8829.html

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/11561.html

https://ialdabaoth.livejournal.com/20142.html

No, they’re able to grasp the near term risks, they just don’t want that to get in the way of making money because they know they’re unlikely to be affected.

I did not. Got any details?

Also FWIW I discovered this yesterday: https://archive.ph/SFCwS

No idea if it’s true, but even if so I don’t think it would exonerate him (though it would put Aella in a worse light)

Yudkowsky is pretty open about being a sexual sadist