One thing to keep in mind about Ptacek is that he will die on the stupidest of hills. Back when Y Combinator president Garry Tan tweeted that members of the San Francisco board of supervisors should be killed, Ptacek defended him to the extent that the mouth-breathers on HN even turned on him.
TinyTimmyTokyo
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Same. I'm not being critical of lab-grown meat. I think it's a great idea.
But the pattern of things he's got an opinion on suggests a familiarity with rationalist/EA/accelerationist/TPOT ideas.
Do you have a link? I'm interested. (Also, I see you posted something similar a couple hours before I did. Sorry I missed that!)
So it turns out the healthcare assassin has some.... boutique... views. (Yeah, I know, shocker.) Things he seems to be into:
- Lab-grown meat
- Modern architecture is rotten
- Population decline is an existential threat
- Elon Musk and Peter Thiel
How soon until someone finds his LessWrong profile?
As anyone who's been paying attention already knows, LLMs are merely mimics that provide the "illusion of understanding".
Damn. I thought I was cynical, but nowhere near as cynical as OpenAI is, apparently.