[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 19 hours ago

I've emailed Microsoft Investor Relations to clarify what they meant and why they didn't just say "percent" if they meant "percent". But if it had been 16 percent, they'd have been yelling it from the rooftops, and they haven't been.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 19 hours ago

if you look through the "venture capital" category, you'll see a few where I start going off on this topic. I blame the AI bubble on these bozos specifically.

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video version

I am particularly pleased with the video, it was a lot of work that came out well, and you should forward it to all your friends

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

I have been corrected - this is a coding unit in an engineering degree. Vibe bridge-building.

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see also lab 9

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

I think that LW post is the example I remember, Veedrac insisting that mathematics holds even in the face of a "sufficiently intelligent" AGI

tho i think there was also discussion on rat-tumblr

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

i'm not digging for cites, but i recall it was extremely hard to convince rationalists that even the ASI couldn't just break cryptography, because they don't understand maths either

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video version - I wear a tie

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

Nadella said written "by software" "on some products" so he's barely making a claim

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

the only people it torments are rationalists, so my full support to Comrade Basilisk

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

roko stresses repeatedly that the AI is the good AI, the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of all humanity!

what sort of person would fear that the coherent volition of all humanity would consider it morally necessary to kick him in the nuts forever?

well, roko

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

i have unfortunate news about volunteer sci fi con chairs

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video version

I do believe this may be the first youtube video on the issue too

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

he's a centrist econ blogger who's been getting into light race science

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

video also starts with 2 minutes of commie rant I left out of the text version

as a centrist market liberal, [MARX MARX MARX]

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video - another outside broadcast from sunny suburban London

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 5 days ago

the shunning is working guys

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video version - see my back yard!

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Video version, with clips of the bot-DJ

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