Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
18 Comments
Architeuthis@awful.systems · 21 pts · 2y
To be clear, it's because he played Edward Snowden in a movie. That's the conspiracy.
swlabr@awful.systems · 14 pts · 2y
Ah forgot to mention that, now it makes sense
gerikson@awful.systems · 17 pts · 2y
No it does not make sense.
Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems · 16 pts · 2y
This is going to haunt me for a while.
swlabr@awful.systems · 13 pts · 2y
Dread it; run from it; my interpretation arrives all the same.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y
paragraph before that is also special
TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems · 8 pts · 2y
All factual and counter-factual statements are evidence for my position. Heads I win, tails you lose.
carlitoscohones@awful.systems · 6 pts · 2y
LOL. One board member is in the CIA "milieu" because of her college major, another has a husband who played Edward Snowden, and they both "presumably" voted to oust Sam Altman. With that kind of rock-solid fact pattern, you just know the reasoning is going to be airtight.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 2y
certain sfba shrink, possibly
sue_me_please@awful.systems · 6 pts · 2y
Is he still taking clients or did he go full into writing for cryptofascists full time?
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
i have no idea, but why wouldn't he? psychiatrist career pays handsomely on its own, you don't need grift-centered superstructure
sue_me_please@awful.systems · 4 pts · 2y
He made a big deal about how his career would be ruined and he'd have to stop his public practice if he was "doxxed"
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
well look, now it's public knowledge, and not since yesterday
i have a sneaking suspiction that he wanted to stay moderately low profile (to public) and/or avoid broad criticism. his clinic page is one search away if you type "scott siskind md"
Soyweiser@awful.systems · 9 pts · 2y
Makes sense
E: I recalled I noticed the 'Helen is CIA' thing before, and checked, different commenter.. Anyway im happy the CIA is taking this seriously, and im not just saying that because im a secret AIVD spy.
gerikson@awful.systems · 12 pts · 2y
I believe there's a normal progression for any cult where they are convinced that The Man is out to get them.
GSV_Spinnaker@awful.systems · 9 pts · 2y
This seems like abnormal paranoia even for LW, maybe they're getting worse. I really do they don't drive too many people nuts with anxiety :<. Fun as it is to poke at them, cults are depressing things.
Soyweiser@awful.systems · 5 pts · 2y
You would say that as an NSA member. ;)
But jokes aside, while it is very unlikely it isn't totally impossible that some spooks are doing things. Iirc during the end of the 90's the AIVD was hacked and it was revealed that they had a few informants inside the Dutch hacker scene/universites, at least that is a store I heard. Of course an informant will not have 'works for CIA' on their resume.
gerikson@awful.systems · 9 pts · 2y
NatSec types, being naturally paranoid and probably inherently rightwing, would probably be drawn to EA like flies on shit.
Incidentally, in Sterling’s Heavy Weather there’s a description of a group of dark triad negative EA types, where smart people are recruited to lower the population of the book’s grimdark future.