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minus-squareGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-211 months agoOld news obviously, but I think it’s worth documenting the organizations and dollar amounts even Steven Pinker is coming out against EA now: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1732114240666743102
minus-squarelocallynonlinear@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoIs this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? Pinker’s naive optimism bubble, is not exactly a perspective I 100% endorse either but hey 🤷
minus-squareGorillasAreForEating@awful.systemsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoI intensely dislike him. I’d say his views rhyme with those of the rationalists, so to speak, which is why I think it’s noteworthy that even a guy like him is criticizing EA now.
minus-squareShitgenstein1@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago Is this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? More like a ‘friend of my enemy has become their enemy is funny’ situation.
minus-squareJohnBierce@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoEven Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.
Old news obviously, but I think it’s worth documenting the organizations and dollar amounts
even Steven Pinker is coming out against EA now: https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1732114240666743102
Is this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation? Pinker’s naive optimism bubble, is not exactly a perspective I 100% endorse either but hey 🤷
I intensely dislike him. I’d say his views rhyme with those of the rationalists, so to speak, which is why I think it’s noteworthy that even a guy like him is criticizing EA now.
More like a ‘friend of my enemy has become their enemy is funny’ situation.
Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.