plzdontkillus - Our friends discover TikTok - awful.systems

Pretty much everyone in the word business has noticed that audio and video are kicking writing’s butts in terms of getting an online audience (I am not sure in terms of influencing people in serious jobs). Ivy Astrix mentioned that our dear friends in Berkeley decided that if a camp for wordy bloggers was good, a camp for short-form vloggers would be even better. The camp [https://www.plzdontkillus.com/] is about AI doom, but the vlogs don’t have to be. You can live in Berkeley for a month, be paid $2,000, compete for $20,000 in prizes, and hang out with illustrious figures Hereticon [https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hereticon] alumni like: - Grimes - Yud - CJ the X [https://cjthex.com/] - Liv Boeree - Zoe Curzi - Rob Miles - Yud - Aella - Nate Soares (in the triangle wing, one presumes) The marketing mentions “a sprinkling of AI experts” even though Yud’s position on Twitter is that he is not an AI expert. I don’t think Soares or MIles have any relevant credentials or achievements other than social media posts. Another Robert Miles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Miles] was a University of Hull computer scientist. plzdontkillus [www.plzdontkillus.com] is definitely less straight and male than their usual lineup, and some of these people would be interesting to meet or have coffee with, but I would not recommend committing to spend a month with them given all the abuse and negligence in rationalist communities. The LessWrong crowd don’t seem to be worried that subsidies for streaming video are killing the culture of reading and writing and the rational, reflective, slow forms of thinking which it inculates, I don’t know if they have talked about the need to cooperate with NIMBYs fighting data centers, or if using law to prevent destruction might involve hiring a law team to make OpenAI’s life hell.