[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago

Did he just pull a "according to the dictionary"? Sorry Moldbug, you just are radically uncool no matter how many leather jackets you get.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"You hate AI art? Well name all real paintings!" the blog post.

Also talking about the urinal "Art, it seems, is most meaningful when it challenges our very concept of what art is." No that was in 1917. Pretty sure that nowadays 'what is art even?' art is quite overdone and boring.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They are also concerned about t levels in athletes, and IQ comes up. Which he defends with "If you think none of these tests are actually measuring anything of value, you must need to explain why they correlate so well with life outcomes related to cognition."

I think a problem with ssc people is that they dont realize they are culture warriors.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 9 months ago

Right, and then she gets less time than people who shoplifted a few times.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 10 months ago

Bostrom, our employees are unhappy, do you have any advice?

'Remember them that they should smile more'

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

is keep fining them $500 for noise pollution

If the price of the breaking the law is a fine, etc

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

there’s this type of reply guy on fedi lately who does the “well actually querying LLMs only happens in bursts and training is much more efficient than you’d think and nvidia says their gpus are energy-efficient” thing whenever the topic comes up

This kind of person (also happened a lot with cryptocurrencies) always goes 'that isn't how it works, this isn't a problem' then doesn't explain what the mistake is you are supposed to have made, and then a few weeks/months/days/search later it is revealed that it was how it works and it is a huge problem. And it is so annoyingly common im very happy with the moderation here.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The People Who Pray At Prompts are suddenly very worried about cults.

E: haha spoke too soon

from the replies:

Do you really think "cult" is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as "cults" have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they're associated with the label "cult" or not.

Wonder what went wrong there, did they just see the word EA and Cult and went 'people are calling Rationalism a cult again, time to deploy the Rationalist answer. A bot? Something else? (More edit, ah prob somethign else as this is prob a reaction to the whole line of tweets and not that specific tweet, a line of tweets which are doing the geek social fallacies there is a little bit more to being a cult than just ostracizing people)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

'lol you did more research than I did for my whole company'

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Peter springs to the center of the room. The air pressure changes. A buzz, a hum, a current about us. He brims with a frenzied energy. Something is happening. He is going to give us a taste of what’s to come, he says. This is the kind of intellectual activity we’re going to experience at UATX. We’re going to grapple with big issues. We’re going to be daring, fearless, undaunted. We’re going, he says, to do something called “Street Epistemology.”

Doctor Rockso Epistemology (nsfw) they just sparkle.

Very high 'I'm being cancelled for my opinions... you know the ones' factor.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

Im sorry, this is an anti-memetic zone. You seem to have used a thought ending memetic sentence, please report to the blue room for punishment. You are to sit in the black chair. Your social standing has decreased.

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

I did 80 hours of study on this, and turns out that the children had only negative QALYs (from now on NQALYs), and the reduction of poor parents surplus children actually increased the total QALYs (and that is not even counting the benefits you get from using the children), therefore in this essay I will...

It is funny, some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don't realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

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