Effective Altruism's goal is to be an artificial conscience that you can install as an adult, like DLC

Pondering how much revenue Tesla lost out on over the last eight years by not doing model year numbers with strictly cosmetic/vaporware updates, so dorks could flex on each other

'I'm like an anaconda'

A better version of this headline, From tomorrow's Dark Markets newsletter (LIB):

Who could have imagined that taking a job at the paper that covered up Iran-Contra and fomented war in Iraq would lead to being ethically compromised

My husband, Matt Clark, went in for a eulogistic blurb for Chicago Reader & but 3 hours later sent me his 2,000 word essay on working for Steve, building Electrical, the ease and complexity of Steve-as-idol.
It's beautiful:
chicagoreader.com/music/steve-al…

YouTubers are apparently very interested in academic publishing. From my conversation with Dexter Thomas. (Full episode: tinyurl.com/bdd5hzz4)

The Insanity of Academic Publishing youtu.be/QjkIu2CnUNU?si…

The only form of eugenics I support is Nick Bostrom shooting himself in the stupid fucking dick.

(Finally reading Torres and Gebru's TESCREAL paper)

featuring some beautiful imgnAI generated art 🥹

Legal hacks They don't want you to know:

If you say 'in a video game' after publicly planning a crime, you're in the clear

2. His parents are both directly and indirectly culpable

Also just before the trial, we got a bombshell lawsuit from the FTX bankruptcy estate detailing Joe Bankman’s role in hiring ‘criminal lawyer’ Dan Friedberg, and emails in which Barbara Fried guided campaign finance fraud.

Sunil (FTX Creditor Champion) I can provide a little insight into how this works, and I wish it were more complex:

Most outlets just re-printed whatever was contained in a press release sent out by S&C/Ray.

Most of the reporters doing so haven't even the slightest clue that there's a deeper story.