Ultra-rare footage of orange site having a good take for once:

Top-notch sneer from lobsters’ top comment, as well (as of this writing):

You want my opinion, I expect AntiRez’ pleas to fall on deaf ears. The AI funders are only getting funded due to LLM hype - when that dies, investors’ reason to throw money at them dies as well.

lol @ the implication that chatbots will definitely invent magitech that will solve climate change, just burn another billion dollars in energy and silicon, please guys i don’t want to go to prison for fraud and share cell with sbf and diddy

who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?

I gave him a long enough chance to prove his views had changed to go read Hanania’s actual feed. Pinned tweet is bitching about liberals canceling people. Just a couple days ago he was on a podcast bitching about trans people and talking about how it’s great to be a young broke (asian) woman because you can be exploited by rich old (white) men.

So yeah he’s totally not a piece of shit anymore. Don’t even worry about it.

Here’s the link, so you can read Stack’s teardown without giving orange site traffic:

…substack.com/…/the-tranhumanist-cult-test

I used to think transhumanism was very cool because escaping the misery of physical existence would be great. for one thing, I’m trans, and my experience with my body as such has always been that it is my torturer and I am its victim. transhumanism to my understanding promised the liberation of hundreds of millions from actual oppression.

then I found out there was literally no reason to expect mind uploading or any variation thereof to be possible. and when you think about what the rest of transhumanism is, there’s just nothing to get excited about. these people don’t have any ideas or cogent analysis, just a powerful desire to evade limitations. it’s inevitable that to the extent they cohere they’re a cult: they’re just a variety of sovereign citizen

In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I’d get to have a zoom function in my eye

But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.

And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it’s just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They’re proud it’s eugenics.