2026-10-11 23:50:55
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shyam-sankar-chief-technology-o…
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shyam-sankar-chief-technology-o…
the game Super Hexagon is mentioned in a essay about Leverage Research (an Effective-Altruism-adjacent cult-like), so I installed SH again. it's been years, but it's still familiar; my skill has degraded, but not as much as I expected
the Leveragers apparently believed that their psychological editing techniques helped them with SH. it's a passing mention with no details, but I doubt there was anything like a controlled experiment, just typical confirmation bias.
Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog (Anthony Blair/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/father-of-ai-doomer-ideology-effective-altruism-backed-bestiality-said-newborn-baby-worth-less-than-a-hog/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260925/p88#a260925p88
"Effective altruism" in name only, for it is neither. #tlozLA