[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah, I know, it is a personal thing from me. I have more of those, think it isn't helpful to use certain too general terms in specific cases as then you cast a too wide net. I fun at parties. (It is also me poking fun at how the soviets called everybody who disagreed with them a reactionary)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Considering how rightwingers have tried to link gayness to pedophilia this is a subject I would avoid if I was them. E: and gwern just goes there.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yes the 2 rs in strawberry machine thinks. In the same way that an airplane flies. /s

E: it gets even worse as half the AI field says the airplanes fly like how birds do. That is why the anthropomorphization is bad. Because it both doesn't think as in the function, nor think as in the system. And by anthropomorphizing people make it look like it can do both.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago

fascinating

Nooo run! Beware the lure of the abyss that is learning more about this stuff. Remember you cannot unlearn things!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That doesn't matter, they still are the 'clueless' AI doomers vs the 'sociopathic' Altman (doubt much 'losers' work there). (I'm using these terms here specifically like how the insight porn ribbonfarm thing did. And I mean it as a joke, ribbonfarm is part of their insight blog culture, they just don't actually learn much from the things they read).

To explain, the clueless believe in the work the company is doing and will work hard without really looking at advancing their own career, they are the true believers (they still can be real life sociopaths, if they work for the art in the woodchipper company for example). The sociopaths are the ones who are in it to improve their own career will fuck over and abuse the clueless for their own advancement/enrichment. Losers know it is just a job, a paycheck, they do their job nothing more and go home, have a family, hobbies, touch grass, live a rich full life. There I saved you a novel length of blog posts (im not kidding btw, the ebook (sold on amazon of course) is 171 pages).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

reactionaries

So, how does any of this relate to wanting to go back to an imagined status quo ante? (yes, I refuse to use reactionary in any other way than to describe politcal movements. Conservatives do not can fruits).

E: I see i got a downvote, ow god do we have tankies?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 13 hours ago

I wonder if they already made up terms like 'bloggophobic' or 'peer review elitist' in that 'rightwinger tries to use leftwing language' way.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago

I just remember a professor saying that after he filled the board with proofs and math. 'the rest is trivial' not sure if it was a joke, as I found none of it trivial. (and neither did the rest of the people doing the course).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yes, there was a big hype in the upcoming biotech revolution in popular transhumanist media a ~decade ago. Lot of it seems to have fizzled out or gone nootropics like stuff. (And even that is meh).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah this kind of stuff is why im not the biggest fan of the tescreal label.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 18 hours ago

"Imagine a technology so useless you cannot run doom on it" https://bsky.app/profile/sosowski.bsky.social/post/3lm63a2srgc24

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 18 hours ago

Different rant, but why are so many sites so slow? Loading times seem to have gone up, not down.

Please note this is rethorical, dont be like the sites asking me if I want to turn on notifications.

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The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

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Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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