Ah, prophet-maxxing. ‘they have no hope of understanding and I have no hope of explaining in 30 seconds’

The first and oldest reason I stay sane is that I am an author, and above tropes. Going mad in the face of the oncoming end of the world is a trope.

This guy wrote this (note I don’t think there is anything wrong with looking like a nerd (I mean I have a mirror somewhere, so I don’t want to be a hypocrite on this), but looking like one and saying you are above tropes is something, there is also HPMOR)

New preprint just dropped, and noticed some seemingly pro AI people talk about it and conclude that people who have more success with genAI have better empathy, are more social and have theory of mind. (I will not put those random people on blast, I also have not read the paper itself (aka, I didn’t do the minimum actually required research so be warned), just wanted to give people a heads up on it).

But yes, that does describe the AI pushers, social people who have good empathy and theory of mind. (Also, ow got genAI runs on fairy rules, you just gotta believe it is real (I’m joking a bit here, it is prob fine, as it helps that you understand where a model is coming from and you realize its limitations it helps, and the research seems to be talking about humans + genAI vs just genAI)).

to a source that’s not laundered slop, ya dingbats

Ha thats easy. Read Singularity Sky by Charles Stross see all the wonders the festival brings.

Anybody writing a manifesto is already a bit of a red flag.

Yeah, it is just a part of the application layer, and not even the whole one.

This is really an ideal moment for a friend and a fam member of mine to need a new pc.

Tcp/ip knew what it did, with its authoritarian desire to see packets in order. Reject authority embrace UDP!

I was annoyed at the start lumping in ai ethics with all the ai doom stuff, and then basically stopped reading.

Do think it is interesting that Miles is part of a collaborative yt tech channel and they recently released an ai slop episode. (Which I have not watched yet either, things need to slow down for a bit please).

The hardest you can nonconsensually destroy a D wile still being allowed on pornhub.

Was thinking more about how the radical, dont fall to biasses think for yourself and cone here to really learn to think (so we can stop the paperclipmachine and resurrect the dead) defend a half million dollars salary with a ‘thats private’.

But that is the same conclusion. The prophet must be protected.

“Nah, salary stuff is private”, starting to think this sort of stuff is an idea introduced to protect capital and nobody else.

More grok shit: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing it in contrast to most other models, is very good at doxing people.

Amazing how everything Musk makes is the worst in class (and somehow the Rationalists think he will be their saviour (that is because he is a eugenicist)).

Lol all that because the executives got bored.

Always thought she should have stuck to acting.

(I know, Hayek just always reminds me of how people put his quotes over Hayeks image, and people just get really mad at her, and not at him. Always wonder if people would have been just as mad if it was Friedrichs image and not Salmas due to the sexism aspect).

I think there is another way to dump wase heat. Use it to warm up something that has a lot of heat capacity, and then eject that. Not practical and a huge waste (i also got this from science fiction), so you onow they are going to try it. Gonna suck for us groundies.

This does mean there is a potential future where the pope joins sneerclub

Btw, im a bit afraid to ask, as I should actually have googled this first (but I’m also becoming weary of google, tried to find some code related things yday and it was giving me wild results, it used to be better at that), but is there a sort of guide on blacksky, like what does joining one of those sites imply (I think I should join the ‘blacksky for non-poc’ variant, at least I got that was a thing) but how well does it interact with the main bsky, how easy is it to switch, consequences for interactions/follows/followers, etc etc. Anybody have a guide on that? In an attempt to migrate away more from bsky which is making a few questionable moderation decisions. (I also know that due to how the whole system is setup, migrating doesn’t actually get you away from those decisions, so I’m also asking out of curiosity, so take that into account regarding how much effort to put into my question, also means ignoring/not reacting is fine. Just shooting a shot, and trying to be clear about intentions, and my feelings re reactions).

I know it is a bit of elitism/priviledge on my part. But if you don’t know about the existence of google translate(*), perhaps you shouldn’t be doing vibe coding like this.

*: this of course, could have been a LLM based vibe translation error.

E: And I guess my theme this week is translations.

Edited it into a reply to Hanson now believing in Aliens, but seems like the SSC side of rationalism has a larger group of people also believing in miracles: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-fatima-sun-miracle-much-more (I have not in depth read the article, going by what others reported about this incident, there also seem to be related LW posts).

Read it a bit now, noticed that scott doesn’t know people who speak Portuguese and is relying on mt. (Also unclear what type of mt).

Thanks! And of course there is a wiki for it.

E: unrelated to the talks about shrooms. Didn’t Grimes talk to Aella about how they felt cheated by people around them who were a lot more evil than they pretended to be, wonder why this doesn’t seem to have caused a change of heart/scenery.