Our Very Good Friends are often likened to Scientology, but have we considered Happy Science and Aum Shinrikyo? The precedent is plainly clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
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Our Very Good Friends are often likened to Scientology, but have we considered Happy Science and Aum Shinrikyo? The precedent is plainly clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
got sent this image
wonder how many more of these things we'll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)
(transcript below)
transcript
title: I gave my mom's company an Al automation and now she and her coworkers are unemployed
body: So this is eating me alive and I don't really know where else to put it. I run this little agency that builds these Al agents for staffing firms. Basically the agent pre-screens candidates, pulls the info into a neat report, and sends it back so recruiters don't waste hours on screening calls. It's supposed to be a tool, not a replacement.
My mom works at this mid sized recruiting company. She's always complained about how long it takes to qualify candidates, so I set them up with one of my agents just to test it. It crushed it. Way faster, way cheaper, and honestly more consistent than most of their team.
Fast forward two months and they've quietly laid off almost her whole department. Including my mom. I feel sick. Like I built something that was supposed to help people, and instead it wiped out my mom's job and her team. I keep replaying it in my head like I basically automated my own family out of work.
Pressing F for doubt, looks like a marketing scam to me.
that or some kind of bait
I didn't dig into the post/username at all so I can't guesstimate likelihood of this! get where you're coming from
(......I really need to finish my blog relaunch (this thought brought to you by the explication I was about to embark on in this context))
(((it's soon.gif tho!)))
Gonna have to agree with zogwarg here. I checked out the Reddit profile and they're a self-proclaimed entrepreneur whose one-man "agency" has zero clients and yet to even have an idea, attempting to crowdsource the latter on r/entrepreneur.
'set them up with'
Anybody want to bet if they did it for free?
could go either way tbh
New piece from the Financial Times: Tech utterly dominates markets. Should we worry?
Pulling out a specific point, the article's noted how market concentration is higher now than it was in the dot-com bubble back in 2000:
You want my overall take, I'm with Zitron - this is quite a narrative shift.
Xe Iaso's chimed in on the GPT-5 fallout, giving her thoughts on chatbots' use as assistants/therapists.
In related news I've been getting podcast ads for Anthropic touting Claude's emotional intelligence and value in working through life's challenges and listening to your relationship issues.
They're not explicitly saying that their chatbot is a therapist, but they're getting about as close as the law would allow, I'm sure.
Not sure why this "member of technical staff at METR" felt the need to post about the lowered productivity of Black people in the southern US states after slavery was abolished. I'm sure it's nothing.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zr37dY5YPRT6s56jY/thomas-kwa-s-shortform?commentId=iwGgqsmpY6Tcex5je
Free people have less prodictivity, time to wirehead everyone! A Brave New World!