Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.

  • datarama@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    Completely aside, “Torment Nexus” would be an awesome name for a thrash metal band.

    Having revealed my taste in music, I’m not in a position to claim high-brow cultural credentials - but even I can see that our would-be tech overlords are a bunch of culturally illiterate goons. Sam Altman complaining that Oppenheimer “missed the mark” on being inspirational to a generation of would-be scientists in the way the Social Network was to a generation of would-be startup founders was perhaps the tech take to end all tech takes.