Some god-awful opsec in there. The list was literally indexed by Google.
Topfi 15 hours ago [-]
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.
jrflowers 1 days ago [-]
Sophia Bush, Actress, One Tree Hill
She was also on Chicago PD! >:(
u1hcw9nx 9 hours ago [-]
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)
port11 7 hours ago [-]
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.
joaogui1 8 hours ago [-]
I think globally they’re all center-right to alt-right, which of them are considered leftwing in the US?
jfengel 4 hours ago [-]
Ezra Klein is legitimately considered left wing in the US. Sam Harris is not actively a psychopath, which passes as "left wing" in America.
mahmoud420 2 hours ago [-]
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whateveracct 21 hours ago [-]
cringe to be on that list
doublerabbit 11 hours ago [-]
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.
smrtinsert 17 hours ago [-]
Joseph Gordon-Leavitt really stands out, why would he be included here?
adrianwaj 21 hours ago [-]
"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.
wpm 19 hours ago [-]
Sounds like Hell
adrianwaj 18 hours ago [-]
Yep, but remember the news story "France moves to break encrypted messaging"..
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.
gnoll_of_gozag 12 hours ago [-]
why?
adrianwaj 42 minutes ago [-]
To concentrate human intelligence in realtime. What are we doing here? Why does it have to be limited to keyboard input?
smackeyacky 12 hours ago [-]
Power adjacent losers. Pathetic.
tennfown 11 hours ago [-]
Does this society include the mentally ill gay young men he’s grooming?
hirvi74 24 hours ago [-]
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.
steve_adams_86 18 hours ago [-]
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.
ebbi 23 hours ago [-]
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.
dwd 17 hours ago [-]
You might want to check the affiliations and funding/promotional channels of all the so-called intellectual dark web.
aaron695 12 hours ago [-]
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wunderlotus 8 hours ago [-]
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I guess he didn't get invited again.
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".
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x2obbaxjktznf67mnhznpplp/po...
More just connecting people from non-related sides. Some names I recognize:
Personally, I’d never want Thiel or Kushner anywhere near my EU officials. Not even in the same planet.
People seem to be okay with this.
...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.
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.
I do find Ted Cruz being involved to be absolutely hilarious though.
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.
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.