I had a situation yesterday were I was forced to explain that requiring a public userID with a curl request is not a safety measure. This is worse, somehow.
That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister.
Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc.
More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize:
Preet Bhara,
Sam Harris,
Tyler Cohen,
Kaja Kallas (VP European Comission),
Elon Musk,
Jared Kushner,
Steven Pinker,
Lawrence Summers (always Larry)
Garry Kasparov,
Ezra Klein,
Jonathan Haidt,
Joseph Gordon Levitt (actor)
...I think an "on the record" society makes more sense. People wear smart glasses, everything recorded, transcribed and fed into an LLM. People can have a mute button, but generally discouraged. Suitable in the age of prediction markets, high definition streaming and fast software development. Humans can be verified at the door.
May as well have some opt-in regarding the matter. In the process, news stories could become, well, automated... the interviews are done in the society. The hellish part would be a clanker coming up to you and asking a bunch of probing questions, that's why I think they should be banned. Then again, people could start talking in code words to confuse listeners.
I am somewhat disappointed in Sam Harris being on the list. I do not agree with him on every topic, but I did enjoy some of his views back when he was more about philosophy than politics.
I do find Ted Cruz being involved to be absolutely hilarious though.
Did you see much about how his name is tied to it? I wonder in which capacity he intended to be involved and why.
He has been associated with other things in the past, only to discover later that he was in a list of people who declined to participate or something.
I'm not sure I'd put it past him, regardless. I like some of his ideas quite a bit, but—in one of his favourite phrases—there's a lot of daylight between us on some topics. More and more over time, it seems. That's fine, overall I mostly respect his ideas.
I'd argue Sam Harris' content was mostly political masquerading as philosophy. Most of his criticisms were very concentrated toward one group, and due to that, he has put himself into a corner.
For example, when he's been asked about Israel being a 'promised land', as an atheist to agree with that and to overlook the atrocities it took/takes to achieve that, is pretty hypocritical.
I find it kind of funny that the last time a partial member list leaked (a few years ago) it was because they tried to invite Andrew Gelman and he mocked it on his blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/02/16/hey-i-got-...
I guess he didn't get invited again.
The posted attendee list has a top 5 HN user present.
Searchable elsewhere - todsacerdoti : https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=todsacerdoti
Care to share?
As a Jamaican, I'm just appreciating his comment re beef patties :).
the way this got leaked is so embarrassingly stupid.
Their website was just a react SPA with the entire member list in the JS bundle. What a stupid mistake to make for these tech "geniuses".
They think that AI is so perfect and wonderful that they didn't even do a "find the security bugs" prompt on their crummy vibe coded website.
Client-side hydration baby, gotta keep it fast.
https://archive.is/HVFPt
Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x2obbaxjktznf67mnhznpplp/po...
Some god-awful opsec in there. The list was literally indexed by Google.
I had a situation yesterday were I was forced to explain that requiring a public userID with a curl request is not a safety measure. This is worse, somehow.
cringe to be on that list
That participation list is not especially selective, politically aligned or sinister. Many are there because they are famous or influential in politics, business, journalism etc.
More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize:
The topics of discussion at the retreat are somewhat questionable. We’re also not exactly sure what some of these people believe in.
Personally, I’d never want Thiel or Kushner anywhere near my EU officials. Not even in the same planet.
I think globally they’re all center-right to alt-right, which of them are considered leftwing in the US?
Ezra Klein is legitimately considered left wing in the US. Sam Harris is not actively a psychopath, which passes as "left wing" in America.
Just goes to show that the world is plagued with corruption and no matter how exposed nothing ever changes.
People seem to be okay with this.
Joseph Gordon-Leavitt really stands out, why would he be included here?
Only thing that comes to mind off the top of the head is that JGL has been very outspoken against AI and the dangers of kids using it.
"off the record"
...I think an "on the record" society makes more sense. People wear smart glasses, everything recorded, transcribed and fed into an LLM. People can have a mute button, but generally discouraged. Suitable in the age of prediction markets, high definition streaming and fast software development. Humans can be verified at the door.
Sounds like Hell
Yep, but remember the news story "France moves to break encrypted messaging"..
someone proposed it'll end up all being fed into an LLM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079325
May as well have some opt-in regarding the matter. In the process, news stories could become, well, automated... the interviews are done in the society. The hellish part would be a clanker coming up to you and asking a bunch of probing questions, that's why I think they should be banned. Then again, people could start talking in code words to confuse listeners.
why?
To concentrate human intelligence in realtime. What are we doing here? Why does it have to be limited to keyboard input?
Power adjacent losers. Pathetic.
Does this society include the mentally ill gay young men he’s grooming?
I am somewhat disappointed in Sam Harris being on the list. I do not agree with him on every topic, but I did enjoy some of his views back when he was more about philosophy than politics.
I do find Ted Cruz being involved to be absolutely hilarious though.
Did you see much about how his name is tied to it? I wonder in which capacity he intended to be involved and why.
He has been associated with other things in the past, only to discover later that he was in a list of people who declined to participate or something.
I'm not sure I'd put it past him, regardless. I like some of his ideas quite a bit, but—in one of his favourite phrases—there's a lot of daylight between us on some topics. More and more over time, it seems. That's fine, overall I mostly respect his ideas.
I'd argue Sam Harris' content was mostly political masquerading as philosophy. Most of his criticisms were very concentrated toward one group, and due to that, he has put himself into a corner.
For example, when he's been asked about Israel being a 'promised land', as an atheist to agree with that and to overlook the atrocities it took/takes to achieve that, is pretty hypocritical.
You might want to check the affiliations and funding/promotional channels of all the so-called intellectual dark web.