Politics is dirty business
When a prominent critic openly accused the Emperor of Songhay of being a tyrant, the latter didn’t execute him but appointed him to the exact government office he despised.
<trembling, raging, strongly worded post about how utterly fucked we all are because less wrong post #163 vaguely pattern matches to something that happened recently>
I was laid off from Anthropic today. I was the guy in charge of putting burning buildings and gravestones in our marketing videos. I have no idea why regulators and everyday Americans live in fear of AI.
If you’re hiring at a frontier lab, reach out!