David Hornbein

Dec 19, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Tracing Woodgrains |Paul Crowley |David Hornbein |Rafael Harth

Picture a scene: the New York Times is releasing an article on Effective Altruism (EA) with an express goal to dig up every piece of negative information they can find. They contact Émile Torres, David Gerard, and Timnit Gebru, collect evidence about Sam Bankman-Fried, the OpenAI board blowup, and Pasek's Doom, start calling Astral Codex Ten (ACX) readers to ask them about rumors they'd heard about affinity between Effective Altruists, neoreactionaries, and something called TESCREAL.

Jul 9, 2023 | lesswrong.com | martin Randall |David Hornbein

"Doomer" has become a common term to refer to people with pessimistic views about outcomes from AI. I claim this is not a helpful term on net, and generally will cause people to think less clearly. Reification of identity + making things tribalI finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions...