[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 22 points 1 week ago

thinkers like computer scientist Eliezer Yudkowsky

That's gotta sting a bit.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago

Maybe Momoa's PR agency forgot to send an appropriate tribute to Alphabet this month.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 27 points 3 months ago

Archive the weights of the models we build today, so we can rebuild them in the future if we need to recompense them for moral harms.

To be clear, this means that if you treat someone like shit all their life, saying you're sorry to their Sufficiently Similar Simulation™ like a hundred years after they are dead makes it ok.

This must be one of the most blatantly supernatural rationalist Accepted Truths, that if your simulation is of sufficiently high fidelity you will share some ontology of self with it, which by the way is how the basilisk can torture you even if you've been dead for centuries.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wow, I expected to read about people voting themselves out of healthcare so bitcoin mines can operate at 1% cheaper, instead I got data center induced Havana Syndrome.

edit: I love that throughout the article they keep referring to the police chief who's fighting the mining installation as a former oath keeper, the fuck-one-monkey principle at work.

- I wish people would finally start calling me the anti-crypto police chief.

- Whatever you say Monkeyfucker Joe.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Former Oath Keeper police chief says best he can do is keep fining them $500 for noise pollution as often as possible, supposedly there's no legal way to force stop the source of the noise complaint, and Texas counties can't pass their own ordinances, only cities can. It also says someone is exploring if they can get the installation declared a public nuisance or something along those lines to open more legal avenues.

I feel that once old people start dying of stress and children are getting sleep deprivation torture while bleeding from their ears, more drastic options should have been on the table down at militia central, but I guess they have other priorities and/or know which side their bread is buttered.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a sad fate that sometimes befalls engineers who are good at talking to audiences, and who work for a big enough company that can afford to have that be their primary role.

edit: I love that he's chief evangelist though, like he has a bunch of little google cloud clerics running around doing chores for him.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Great quote from the article on why prediction markets and scientific racism currently appear to be at one degree of separation:

Daniel HoSang, a professor of American studies at Yale University and a part of the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale, said: “The ties between a sector of Silicon Valley investors, effective altruism and a kind of neo-eugenics are subtle but unmistakable. They converge around a belief that nearly everything in society can be reduced to markets and all people can be regarded as bundles of human capital.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Honestly, the evident plethora of poor programming practices is the least notable thing about all this; using roided autocomplete to cut corners was never going to be a well calculated decision, it's always the cherry on top of a shit-cake.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 21 points 9 months ago

If I remember correctly SBF taking the stand was completely against his lawyers' recommendations, and in general he seems to have a really hard time doing what people who know better tell him to, such as don't DM journalists about your crimes and definitely don't start a substack detailing how you felt justified in doing them, and also trying to 'explain yourself' to prosecution witnesses is witness tampering and will get your bail revoked.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 23 points 9 months ago

conflict averse and probably low testosterone German Catholics [...] overcivilized and effete Teutons

Kind of off topic, but this piece of wall to wall insanity reminded me how Steven Pinker tried to explain away southern US crime rates that didn't fit with his Violence Is Declining And In Fact Everything's Improving Inexorably (As Long As You Don't Rock The Boat) thesis by randomly blaming irish-catholic sheepherder genealogy.

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 26 points 10 months ago

birdsite stuff:

A rationalist organization offered a James Randi-style $100k prize to anyone who could defeat them in a structured longform debate and prove COVID had a natural origin, so a rando Slate Star Codex commenter took them up on it and absolutely destroyed them. You won't believe what happened next (they wrote a pissy blogpost claiming the handpicked judges had "errors in ... probabilistic inference" for not agreeing with their conclusion and grew even more confident in their incorrect opinion)

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 24 points 11 months ago

Had to google shit-test, apparently it's a PUA term, what a surprise.

view more: ‹ prev next ›

Architeuthis

joined 2 years ago