gerikson

"The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia ---"

good enough! ship it!

BRB registering KallocAIn as a company

The poster deftly doesn't address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?

This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=u7L6T6uGEkzw9Fzku

The header image is gold.

enjoy crustaceans incorrecting each other about free speech, defamation law etc

https://lobste.rs/s/lxoosd/german_court_ruling_declares_google_s_ai

If LW is a cult, they're doing a terrible job at recruiting:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhrrhTzTeiZ8PzQZn/where-do-young-rationalists-go

AP: Appeals court upholds FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud conviction

It's been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like "New Wave" and "cyberpunk" were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.

One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it's broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn't have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.

SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so ... chicken and egg?

"It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman"

Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped

https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction

Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn't mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-Singularity Sky.

[1] MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it's not mentioned (also, it's unfortunately not very good)