dgerard

this was literally our elevator pitch for Pivot to AI

Two of the bsky posts are log-in only

if you're going to do internet research, at this point it's a skill issue. Create a reader account.

Thiel-astroturfed New York artistic scene. Everyone involved has an Urbit.

is the anonymous crypto donor Ben Delo from BitMEX? He was quite loudly and publicly second after Buterin a while ago.

we've got this for a starter

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chromefox

yeah. it's important to remember that in general, charities are fucking incompetent and suing them for being useless MFs tends to do nothing useful.

Someone who really hates you can try to make trouble using the statements, but it's mostly trying to get the IRS to pull your charitable status. But the IRS is also aware there are a lot of dumb assholes who try to make trouble. Depends if someone serious can make it stick.

The main issue is if the IRS thinks it's a scam in charitable clothing and not a genuine charity. But I think that our friends are very sincere in their charitable purposes and generally incompetent, and the IRS is extremely used to that combination.

I've noted on Reddit sneerclub previously that this is not an outrageous sort of amount for a Bay Area nonprofit to pay a C-level or a high level specialist. We might look and go "he's a high level specialist in dumb nonsense", but it's not a facially outrageous number. Those region 2 DVDs aren't going to buy themselves, you know.

lol, Oliver Habryka at Lightcone is sending out begging emails, i found it in my spam folder

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declared Lightcone Enemy #1 thanks you for your attention in sending me this missive, Mr Habryka

In 2024, FTX sued us to claw back their donations, and around the same time Open Philanthropy's biggest donor asked them to exit our funding area. We almost went bankrupt.

yes that's because you first tried ignoring FTX instead of talking to them and cutting a deal

that second part means Dustin Moskovitz (the $ behind OpenPhil) is sick of Habryka's shit too

If you want to learn more, I wrote a 13,000-word retrospective over on LessWrong.

no no that's fine thanks

We need to raise $2M this year to continue our operations without major cuts, and at least $1.4M to avoid shutting down. We have so far raised ~$720k.

and you can’t even tap into Moskovitz any more? wow sucks dude. guess you’re just not that effective as altruism goes

And to everyone who donated last year: Thank you so much. I do think humanity's future would be in a non-trivially worse position if we had shut down.

you run an overpriced web hosting company and run conferences for race scientists. my bayesian intuition tells me humanity will probably be fine, or perhaps better off.

from the youtube browser comments, "Ladybird is our last hope" seems to be the new standard promotional cut'n'paste phrase

last hope for what, you might ask? well the true anti-woke browser, which is much more important than actually, say, working.

presumably brave is too SJW for these guys, as well as basically working insofar as it's just a chrome reskin

they want the TRUE GLORIOVS FVTVRE that only a nonexistent thing that doesn't fucking work, and won't cos the lead bozo is vibe coding it, can offer.

in fashtech, promises of future glory always beat present day actually fucking working