[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

NRx people was what I was thinking about. Every city a city state with bespoke medical experimentation going on. And if you don't like it, just leave and go to a different city state with different crazy medical experiments.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 5 hours ago

There also is a lot of homeopathic meds in the Netherlands, dont know about the legal status, do know it didnt help much with my hayfever as a kid.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 23 hours ago

Ah right, thanks! Weren't there also a lot of German victims?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

It also prevented the Thalidomide medication from causing much damage in the usa (compared to the rest of the world) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal and prob countless more, as it is a bit hard to cause problems if the problems are caught before it being brought to market. And I do worry that the "the fda is too cautious" pushers are actually motte baileying for the total removal of the fda.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Generics greetings and happy s

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is a bit weird, it has very high EA vibes to me, started and did some good (epipen in 2017 vs EAs malaria nets), but end up to have some crazy plan for which the other things are more of a smokescreen for their real plans (an easy bake chemical oven make chems at home kit vs EAs stopping our lord and saviour the robotgod) using rethoric aimed at a specific subgroup (2000-2010 anarchist libertarian hackers vs nerdy altruists)

E: I really wonder if they were influenced by the dr sleepless series from the disgraced warren ellis, and the stuff around that.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

From what I heard: Skimming over science, best practices, risks of contamination, risk of producing horror chemicals, problems of sourcing materials, storing materials, storing the final product etc etc.

Here is a bsky thread from the last time they were in the publics eye (more here if you dont have an account) (the latter articles are clearly working on a diff definition of capitalism than I use so I chose not to be too annoyed with the weird digs about that).

This should be a very big red flag: "Mixæl Swan Laufer worked in mathematics and high energy physics until he decided to use his background in science to tackle problems of global health and human rights." (Ignoring all the other smaller red flags btw, I think I could point one out ever paragraph, if I had not heard about these people before, the final red pill reference would have made me think they were trolling).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Do you want agi basilisk anime girls because this is how you get agi basilisk anime girls

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Rag feels to me like the other new llm tricks (like voice commands), the base model cant be improved much so they tack on modules which make it look like the base tech is still improving. While in reality it is just the tacking on of older tech.

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

When I was young I knew people who installed those 'get money for moving your mouse' things (this was a thing around 2000, prob combined with a 'get paid to use your computer' scam. I'm not sure if anybody even remembers this), and they never got a dime. So I always mentally ignore these things as scams. 'it is just free money' is quite the red flag.

Minor gripe with the video 'if they product is free you are likely the product' isn't true imho. You are always also the product, unless they explicitly go out of their way to make it clear you are not the product (and even then you cannot be totally sure). You can't pay your way out of the rot economy. In fact, as you are now a person who spends money, I'd think the value of your data actually goes up. A database filled with data of users who never spend a dime online seems like it would be almost useless to me.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you start to count at 0 it is also correct. Thanks Dijkstra. The paper that cased uncountable damages and wasted hours.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Who taught this thing to count? Programmers? (E: jesus, that dropped r was not intentional, also lol)

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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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