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J. Oliver Conroy's Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.
No he wasn't.
No, Hariezer Yudotter does not know science. He regurgitates the partial understanding and the outright misconceptions of his creator, who has read books but never had to pass an exam.
This presumes that MIRI's "research on AI risk" actually exists, i.e., that their pitiful output can be called "research" in a meaningful sense.
"Excuse me, Pot? Kettle is on line two."
When the mainstream of the movement is ve zhould chust bomb all datacenters, maaaaaybe they are?
I looked up a video of someone trying to use a potato as a suppressor and was not disappointed.
you undersold this
that guy's face, amazing
if this is peak rationalist gunsmithing, i wonder how their peak chemical engineering looks like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cremation
Well that sounds like a great way to either make a very messy explosion or have your house smell like you're disposing of a corpse from a mile away.
considering practicality of their actions, groundedness of their beliefs, state of their old boat, cleanliness of their ~~rolling frat house trailer park~~ "stealth" rvs, and from what i can tell zero engineering or trade background whatsoever, i see no reason to doubt that they could make a 400L, stainless steel container that has to hold 200L+ of corrosive liquid at 160C, perhaps 10atm, of which 7 atm only is steam, and scrubber to take care of ammonia. they are so definitely not paranoid that if they went out to source reagents, there's no way that they possibly could be confused for methheads on a shopping spree. maybe even they could run it on solar panels
That's what we call a win-win scenario
fyi one of better methods that american cops use to detect meth labs is to just wait for them to catch fire. whether it is a statement on how hard they drop the ball or on safety mindset of cartel chemists i'll leave that up to you
@skillissuer
I’m fairly sure that a 50 gallon drum of lye at room temperature will take care of a body in a week or two. Not really suited to volume "production”, which is what water cremation businesses need.
as a rule of thumb, everything else equal, every increase in temperature 10C reaction rates go up 2x or 3x, so it would be anywhere between 250x and 6500x longer. (4 months to 10 years??) but everything else really doesn't stay equal here, because there are things like lower solubility of something that now coats something else and prevents reaction, fat melting, proteins denaturing thermally, lack of stirring from convection and boiling,
it will also reek of ammonia the entire time
@sailor_sega_saturn
He made a fancy coatrack.
Good god
I feel like it still starts off too credulous towards the rationalists, but it's still an informative read.
Between them, Scientology and the libertarians, what the fuck is it with these people and boats?
I blame the British for setting a bad example
Hey, we're an island nation which ruled over a globe-spanning empire, we had a damn good reason to be obsessed with boats.
Couldn't exactly commit atrocities on a worldwide scale without 'em, after all.
I assume its to get them to cooperate.
Ah, yes. The implication.
a really big boat is the ultimate compound. escape even the surly bonds of earth!
What we really need to do is lash together a bunch of icebergs...
From the opening, this guy has actually been more consistent about respecting her name and pronouns than most coverage I've read. Not what I would have expected, but I'm also only through the first section.