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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

If you're a big-headed guy or gal at a rationalist puddle cuddle, double check that your rubbers didn't get punctured.

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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 74 points 4 months ago

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

[-] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 42 points 4 months ago

Much like a network, the brain is a series of tubes.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 23 points 4 months ago

To have the confidence of a white CS undergrad...

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Feels like I've heard this rhetoric before...

[-] f314@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Aw, man.. Guess it’s time to play some Disco Elysium again!

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

His time has come!

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago

Thought Gained: Advanced Race Theory

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

Wait no they’re talking about Race Theory Criticality Events

[-] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 45 points 4 months ago

Yay, let's fight AI with eugenics!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 32 points 4 months ago

shot:

The upper bound for how long to pause AI is only a century, because “farming” (artificially selecting) higher-IQ humans could probably create competent IQ 200 safety researchers.

It just takes C-sections to enable huge heads and medical science for other issues that come up.

chaser:

Indeed, the bad associations ppl have with eugenics are from scenarios much less casual than this one

going full "villain in a Venture Bros. episode who makes the Monarch feel good by comparison":

Sure, I don't think it's crazy to claim women would be lining up to screw me in that scenario

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

Lol, the guy goes normal weird high school level shitposter when he has the slightest pushback.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Considering that the idea of the singularity of AGI was the exponential function going straight up, I don't think this persons understands the problem. Lol, LMAO foomed the scorpion.

(Also that is some gross weird eugenics shit).

E: also isn't IQ a number that gets regraded every now and then with an common upper bound of 160? I know the whole post is more intended as vaguely eugenics aspirational but still.

Anyway, time to start the lucrative field of HighIQHuman safety research. What do we do if the eugenics superhumans goals don't align with humanity?

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Smh, why do I feel like I understand the theology of their dumb cult better than its own adherents? If you believe that one day AI will foom into a 10 trillion IQ super being, then it makes no difference at all whether your ai safety researcher has 200 IQ or spends their days eating rocks like the average LW user.

[-] imadabouzu@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Oh absolutely! This is the entire delusion collapsing on itself.

Bro, if intelligence is, as the cult claims, fully contained self improvement, --you could never have mattered by definition--. If the system is closed, and you see the point of convergence up ahead... what does it even fucking matter?

This is why Pascal's wager defeats all forms of maximal utilitarianism. Again, if the system is closed around a set of known alternatives, then yes. It doesn't matter anymore. You don't even need intelligence to do this. You can do with sticks and stones by imagining away all the other things.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 4 months ago

in an attempt to persuade normal people to take them seriously, they imagined themselves to be important enough to have their own version of bene gesserit. the sheer fucking hubris and nerve of these people,

also that "other issues that come up" means here "draw the rest of the fucking owl" but they don't even have crayons

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

wanted to emulate bene gesserit, ended doing bene tleilax

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

Wait, I totally had something for this...

"Bene Jizzerit"

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

thank you, that's perfectly awful :-)

[-] MacStache@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago

Selective breeding, eh? There's a word for this and it was vouched for by a guy with a distinct style of moustache.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

You know what, maybe Idiocracy won't be the worst case scenario

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I mean, Idiocracy was basically "what if party-bros ran society?" as a movie. Definitely more fun than this shit.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 14 points 4 months ago

Ahh, good old ShitCrusaderKingsSay...

Oh wait

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 12 points 4 months ago

His "farming" idea is just eugenics

[-] cornflake@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Somehow he makes it sound even more misanthropic

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

What does misanthropic mean?

Also isn't IQ in general kinda inaccurate?

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

misanthropic means person hating; possessed of contempt and malevolence toward humans as both individuals and a class. connotations of bitterness or cruelty

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

For me, it's the complete non-mention of uterus-owning people*, as if they are just a means to the end.

*I couldn't come up with a gender-inclusive term for this that didn't make me sound like a monster so apologies

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

This will include dudes with multiple uterii in their freezer but they're probably outliers.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

ah, yes, I forgot to put in a second footnote about my neighbour Brian. We'd call the cops but it turns out he's the local sheriff.

[-] cornflake@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

Honestly not the most succinct guidance, but here's an Amerocentric style guide: https://styleguide.transjournalists.org/#neutral-health-terms

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

My best attempt to follow this advice produces: people who can get pregnant. Works for me!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

double check that your rubbers didn’t get punctured.

Extra wrinkly*, for your partner’s pleasure

*the brain, that is

[-] mtraven23@mastodon.social 9 points 4 months ago

@AcausalRobotGod I worked at a company (Quixey) this guy started. It did not go well or end well.

[-] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

Interesting, I knew a guy who worked there for a bit.

[-] maol@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago
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