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9 months ago
  • #AI
  • #San Francisco
  • #Effective Altruism
  • Mayor Lurie's crackdown has made San Francisco eerily silent, with fewer street disturbances.
  • Mark Zuckerberg aggressively offers large sums of money and incentives to recruit people for AI work at Meta, even resorting to desperate measures like scavenging for GPUs.
  • A Bay Area house party is ruined as Zuckerberg bribes guests and staff to leave, leaving only a few effective altruists behind.
  • Effective altruists discuss existential risks, including the 'Muskpocalypse'—a scenario where Elon Musk's genetically selected children could destabilize global institutions by simultaneously going 'crazy' at age 50.
  • The Navalny Foundation uses clever tactics to prompt city cleanup efforts, such as provocative graffiti to trigger government action.
  • A startup offers a text-based adventure game interface for paralyzed individuals, powered by AI and LIDAR technology.
  • An edtech startup, Wobegon, uses AI-generated deepfake peers to simulate ideal school environments for children, raising ethical questions.
  • A humorous interaction with AI models (Claude 4.0 and Grok 4.0) highlights their limitations in social scenarios like flirting.
  • Effective altruists debate political and social issues, including abortion and virtue signaling vs. luxury beliefs.
  • Zuckerberg's relentless pursuit of GPUs culminates in a chaotic street confrontation, ending with him triumphantly securing a GPU.