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  • gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025English
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    2 days ago

    Interesting to see if he gets one.

    I believe Trump is A-OK with pay for play for pardons, but what’s the actual price? Something flew by where people were buying a one-to-one with him for $5M, but that’s basically “private”. A pardon of someone as high-profile as SBF has to be worth the reputation hit. Can SBF and/or his family swing it? Would SBF be a good ally/toady of Trump?

    Somehow I don’t see it. Unlike UIrich, a lot of people lost real money when FTX imploded. There wasn’t that much sympathy for him from crapto huggers. And let’s not forget he’s an autistic Jew, not a clear hero for the people who have Trump’s ear.

  • gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systems•Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.English
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    16 days ago

    I got caught on that quote too…

    Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence”.

    Science-fiction solutions for science-fiction problems!

    Let’s see what the comments say!

    Considering current human distributions and a lack of 160+ IQ people having written off sub-100 IQ populations as morally useless […]

    Dude are you aware where you are posting.

    Just hope it never happens, like nuke wars?

    Yeah that’s what ran the Cold War, hopes and dreams. JFC I keep forgetting these are kids born long after 1989.

    Could you do all the research on a boat in the ocean? Excuse the naive question.

    No, please keep asking the naive questions, it’s what provides fodder for comments like this .

    (regarding humans having “[F]ixed skull size” and can therefore a priori not compete with AI):

    Artificial wombs may remove this bottleneck.

    This points to another implied SF solution. It’s already postulated by these people that humans are not having enough babies, or rather the right kind of humans aren’t (wink wink). If we assume that they don’t adhere to the Platonic ideal that women are simply wombs and all traits are inherited from males, then to breed superbabies you need buy-in from the moms. Considering how hard it is for these people to have a normal conversation with the fairer sex, them both managing to convince a partner to have a baby and let some quack from El Salvador mess with its genes seems insurmountable. Artificial wombs will resolve this nicely. Just do a quick test at around puberty to determine the God-given IQ level of a female, then harvest her eggs and implant them into artificial wombs. The less intelligent ones can provide eggs for the “Beta” and “Gamma” models…

    But you don’t go from a 160 IQ person with a lot of disagreeability and ambition, who ends up being a big commercial player or whatnot, to 195 IQ and suddenly get someone who just sits in their room for a decade and then speaks gibberish into a youtube livestream and everyone dies, or whatever.

    These people are insane.