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David Boree

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Or should she jump right into the tech industry, you know? And she worries that like if she waits to get a graduate degree, this will delay her making a positive impact on the existential risk caused by AI and it'll be too late. The singularity will happen already, you know? At this point, she's still a big, a fawning fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Or should she jump right into the tech industry, you know? And she worries that like if she waits to get a graduate degree, this will delay her making a positive impact on the existential risk caused by AI and it'll be too late. The singularity will happen already, you know? At this point, she's still a big, a fawning fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the highest ranking woman at Yudkowsky's organization, Miri, is a lady named Susan Salomon. Susan gives a public invitation to the online community to pitch ideas for the best way to improve the ultimate quality of the singleton that these people believe is inevitable. In other words, hey, give us your ideas for how to make the inevitable AI god nice, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Here's what Ziz writes about her response to that. I asked her whether I should try an alter course and do research or continue a fork of my pre-existing life plan, earn to give as a computer engineer, but retrain and try to do research directly instead. At the time, I was planning to go to grad school, and I had an irrational attachment to the idea.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She sort of compromised and said I should go to grad school, find a startup co-founder, drop out, and earn to give via startups instead." First off, bad advice, Susan. Bad advice. Just be Steve Jobs. Being Steve Jobs worked for Steve Jobs. Well, and Bill Gates, I guess, to an extent. It doesn't work for most people.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Yeah. And most people, these people aren't very original thinkers. Like, yeah, she's just saying like, yeah, go to a Steve Jobs. So Ziz does go to grad school and somewhere around that time in 2014, she attends a lecture by Alicia Yudkowsky on the subject of inadequate equilibria, which is the title of a book that Yudkowsky had wrote about the time.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the book is about where and how civilizations get stuck. One reviewer, Brian Kaplan, who despite being a professor of economics, must have a brain as smooth as a pearl, wrote this about it. Every society is screwed up. Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the few thinkers on earth who are trying at the most general level to understand why. And this is like- Wow, that's-

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the book is about where and how civilizations get stuck. One reviewer, Brian Kaplan, who despite being a professor of economics, must have a brain as smooth as a pearl, wrote this about it. Every society is screwed up. Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the few thinkers on earth who are trying at the most general level to understand why. And this is like- Wow, that's-

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

And the book is about where and how civilizations get stuck. One reviewer, Brian Kaplan, who despite being a professor of economics, must have a brain as smooth as a pearl, wrote this about it. Every society is screwed up. Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the few thinkers on earth who are trying at the most general level to understand why. And this is like- Wow, that's-

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Please study the humanities a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. I mean, the first and most, like one of the first influential works of his modern historic scholarship is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's a whole book about why a society fell apart. And like, motherfucker, more recently, Mike Davis existed. Like, like Jesus Christ.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Please study the humanities a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. I mean, the first and most, like one of the first influential works of his modern historic scholarship is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's a whole book about why a society fell apart. And like, motherfucker, more recently, Mike Davis existed. Like, like Jesus Christ.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Please study the humanities a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. I mean, the first and most, like one of the first influential works of his modern historic scholarship is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's a whole book about why a society fell apart. And like, motherfucker, more recently, Mike Davis existed. Like, like Jesus Christ.