Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
Srinivasan, a former partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, who is allegedly based in Singapore, conducted the Q&A through a free Zoom account with a 40-minute time limit — Srinivasan left seconds before the timer hit zero.
oh that’s fucking embarrassing
e: wait, people paid to attend this shit and they couldn’t allocate the price of even one ticket to pay for zoom? that’s worse
should've used some of that networked state technology so they didn't have to be reliant on such tawdry oldworld dead weight as mere webrtc
Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.
Quick, throw a grey tribe pride parade!
Glad to see that Srinivasan is doing the good lord's work of convincing the world that VCs like Balaji Srinivasan are fundamentally unserious people with more money than sense and that the government should tax it away from them before the next round of grifters inevitably do.
People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.
the same setting as his four-hour podcast calling for “tech Zionism”
such edge much oof.
E: slightly annoyed at that site for making scrolling with the keyboard impossible because the picture thing takes the focus so when one shows up the keyboard commands flips the pictures instead of scrolling.
i wonder if it has nudity