8mo ago

Lightcone is so outraged at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it

manifold.markets Will The Guardian issue a correction to its EA/Manifest/FTX article?

Resolved YES. The Guardian piece here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism Reportedly contains many factual errors: See https://x.com/ohabryka/status/1802563541633024280?t=8IhUv03x6PKq_r5MwLbPuA&s=19 Resolves yes if one or ...

WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks

also we swear we totally didn't get your email

bonus from thread:

I am having a lot of fun on Manifold, but if the team insists on inviting eugenics speakers to conferences, its probably time for me to leave :-/

What exactly is your objection to people exercising their bodily autonomy to implement voluntary eugenics?

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The good news is that eugenics chuds are really easy to simulate.
- so sorry that you have to soil your diodes with these shitheads' tamagotchis
  
  With just a little bit of creative bin-packing they can share a core with the processes that simulate the smell of sewage and leafblower noise.
  
  The Good Place is a perfect model for this. For the price of a single simulated clam chowder fountain, you can torture hundreds of souls in parallel!