“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”

From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?

  • @froztbyte@awful.systems
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    61 year ago

    do tell? I’m not aware of this. I’ve mostly managed to avoid having detailed contact with these weirdos, and only in the last few years happened to encounter … their profiles and such. to my knowledge i’ve not yet managed to meet any of the mainliners of this shit in ZA

    • @saucerwizard@awful.systemsOP
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      1 year ago

      Her dad is a big dude in hardcore calvinist apologetics. I can’t remember the org name but like - hard hardcore fundies.

      • @froztbyte@awful.systems
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        61 year ago

        there’s a poetic irony in target fixating so hard on avoiding one set of weird nutbaggery to then end up as one of the central figures in another bit of nutbaggery…

    • @Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      101 year ago

      Iirc she comes from a weird religious background, so her not wanting to be connected back to that isn’t not that sneerworthy.