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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
So this is apparently something AI companies now think is smart to advertise with. Donāt know whoād willingly consider this something targeted at them, but here we are.
I rewrote the ad so they can lean into their marketing strategy.
Hard book have hard word and make head hurt, AI make book easy! More book read for you. No hard word. This good idea!
I want to make a zoolander riff but my brain just isnāt cooperating, so instead pretend I did (just like these people pretend their product is worth something)
Hahah lol, that was pretty good.
the part of me that sometimes spends an hour just choosing the right words for the couple of paragraphs Iām writing is fucking screaming
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there is a screaming noise that comes from me while I write
thanks magibook!
canāt wait for this shit to show up in usage among people who have english as an additional language at different level of fluency to their primaries. totally donāt see it causing a cascade clusterfuck in communication and comprehension.
thereās already a strain of this out there, with a lot of english-non-first students using LLMs to āmake their work sound more polishedā. similar as the strain using it for CVs etc
ran across a great thread on fedi a while back, will see if I can find it
ah yes, the Simple English wiki filter but wrong
I canāt even
Itās good that theyāre offsetting their advantages in the marketplace of money by actively crippling themselves in the marketplace of ideas.
Two tweets and I can tell you at least 5 substacks he subscribes to
PrimalPoly was a sort of semi regular of the old sneerclub, so I can tell you a lot more than that.
Fr? Whatās his deal?
I have such sights to show you And more
About half of evopsychgoogleās tweets are also about him and his wife.
He and his wife (also a piece of work) have a very strange poly relationship btw, it seems to be more a constant dominance struggle than a loving poly relationship.
And you know how a lot of these people when faced with the slightest pushback turn further and further right. 2013
90% of the weird evo psych women on their period things you ever heard about, also him. (And while I donāt get the American fascination with strippers/strip clubs, I do get it is an important macho man culture thing for American men to do things with/around strip clubs so cudos for him that he managed to trick the university into sponsoring his visits).
long term Evolutionary Psychology race scientists
also hang out in Effective Altruism, of course
I think thereās a bug with your post button, it sent the same message twice
both him and his wife are quite the pieces of work
heās also figured here a couple of times too
Not sure which sub a heartwarming story of Nazis shooting their own dicks off goes under, but: Nina Power of Compact gets called a nazi. Sues for defamation. In discovery, produces extensive facts not just supporting Nazi ideas but calling herself a Nazi. Loses so hard she just declared bankruptcy.
there has been no media coverage of this, but hoo boy does there need to be
EDIT: ohhh itās the fuckin LD50 gallery, straight up NRX. Judgement, PDF
ah yes, a good ole
we have scientifically ascertained that this is in fact that rare correct use case for the following emoji sequence: š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
there are some phenomenal whoppers just in the opening paragraphs of that article, holy shit
this is gonna make great piecemeal reading today!
discovery as humiliation conga line of āfairy alien nazi racism is totally my bag babyā
āfairy alien naziā? What kind of a multiclass is this
hahahaha happy garbage day everybody
The logs also show Ms Power claiming that āthe social disapproval for āracismā is a psyop to stop people realising that there are alien and fairy racesā, and that āblack and white were alien races and very differentā.
wait, is believing in fairies as an adult a weird racist thing? fuck, itād kind of make sense if the people Iāve known who just causally slipped āby the way fairies are realā into casual conversation were doing a dogwhistle I didnāt pick up on
one day Iāll find a way to shoehorn our experience with a Waldorf School into a sneer.
In summary, fairy-themed fascism can be tied back into the whole Helena Blavatsky, Rudolph Steiner, esoteric Hitlerism shtick. You most commonly get ambushed with it when dealing with fallen hippies, but it is diffusing into the wider online right via weird 4chan things.
see also all the TERFs yesterday loudly coming out in support of Power and her Nazi revelation
the TERF to nazi pipeline is a doorway, or perhaps just walking over to the other side of the same room
the TERF to nazi pipeline is a doorway,
It is funny how mad TERFs get when you mention they are saying the same things as neo-nazis, and then a few days later another TERF who is also a natzi is revealed again.
the original recipe nazis were deep into occultism so maybe
This is one of those David Icke things where youāre not sure if reptilians/fairies/aliens mean reptilians/fairies/aliens or if theyāre some kind of code or euphemism.
If you always bet on āeverything confusing that weirdos say is a euphemism or proxy for Jews or Black peopleā, you will beat the house. Canadians, lizards, trans people, common punctuation marks, apparently also the seelie court I guess.
having unfortunately known several David Icke fans: itās always veiled antisemitism, and the veil gradually disappears the more you let them talk
e: yes, the area I live in is teeming with various flavors of conspiracy nut, why do you ask
I vaguely remember his original car crash on Wogan after he went loopy and it was barely veiled antisemitism even then - lizard people and the like
āah ah but he wrote books - that surely canāt be the works of a person frothing in racism!ā is something Iāve heard from a surprising number of people Iāve met
if racism made people illiterate every facebook group and every youtube comment section would look completely different
the answer is ābothā
I know someone whoās a practicing christian and has said theyāve seen angels
technical, intelligent person on all fronts otherwise. I have ā¦ not pushed matters
(e: not claiming this person I reference is racist, more that Iāve heard some really fucking kooky shit in many spectra, so I donāt know how much of a heuristic that sort of thing is by itself. the fairies thing may be a bit more concrete/direct - gonna have to try test it on some flaming racists sometime)
I think the connection isnāt with belief in the supernatural, but with the specific belief that there are things around us that look like people but arenāt people. I can easily see how the latter at minimum makes one very susceptible for racism.
If people start believing that androids are a real thing (not the OS, human like robots), itās only a matter of time before people will be accused of being androids.
Have to wonder what happened to her brain since the days when she had stuff published at the Guardian.
given some of the other things Iāve seen from the guardian, not sure that wouldāve necessarily been a contraindicator
I mean they didnāt seem very fashy at first. The later ones (2018, when she was fashy on the down-low ) started to get TERFy but earlier (2010-2014) it was all "the police arenāt your friendā and stuff about government trying to restrict the right to protest, etc.
(I looked over her Guardian contributions after reading about the bankruptcy etc in this thread.)
I guess that is the same duration/timeline as the guardian downslope arc
The guardian is kind of irrelevant to what I was getting at.
she had a piece in The Quietus in 2018, but by 2020 they had kicked a writer out for being pals with DC Miller, her co-plaintiff in this case
(just for confusion one of the Quietus guys is a different Luke Turner)
causally slipped āby the way fairies are realā
wait, what? What sort of context? Multiple people? FFS TELL
so I think I must just have one of those faces cause itās been something that multiple former friends have revealed to me, and itās usually a weird show of trust? and itās always something like āyou know, I just think fairies must be real, like theyāve got to be out there? you know?ā
and in all cases Iāve gone āā¦oh thatās coolā and mentally earmarked that person as ādo not trust with heavy machineryā
just remembered someone i met decades ago going on and on about spiritualism and ESP and just happened to drop in their own massive racism, thereās definitely a type
The crystals to anti-vaxx to full-blown fascism pipeline is real and I have more than a few cousins deep in that KKK hole. Hate to be a science brodude, but all the spiritualism stuff can be a gullibility magnet for those prone to self radicalisation (the bad type)
yeah i have one of those faces too (tall, blue eyes, Danish cheekbones), disconcerting number of nazis who wanted me to be in with them
I get the club invite most times I speak afrikaans in pretoria
in australia the club invite is just a way of saying āhiā to your fellow white person
Iāve never had the full on āletās be nazis togetherā invite but Iāve had several people launch unprompted into ānow that itās just us white folks we can talk for realā mode. internally they must have been like āI see white skin, we are clear for takeoff, 54321ā
funnily enough it hasnāt happened since I became visibly trans
ja that can happen/s here too
presumably your bones comprehend all the non-weather reasons that .au is such a popular za expat destination
i mean, i have a friend who is literally a UFO religion believer, but theyāre decent and politically good and trustworthy and present as normal-English, so
see occasionally you meet a UFO person and theyāre normal and you only find out about their interest in UFOs because itās the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit. in effect, their UFO hobby is essentially a modified radio/birdwatching hobby thatās hopefully driving them to learn more about the world around them
but much more often you meet a UFO person and hear the absolute worst thing youāve heard all month while looking for an escape route, without making it too obvious because youāre fairly certain theyāre armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up because you wouldnāt discuss lizard people with them.
you only find out about their interest in UFOs because itās the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit
you know, I donāt know if Iāve actually run into this kind of conversation. I donāt think I have. or if I almost did, I fairly likely applied a conversation logic-shortcircuit way before it got there (because of ambient red flag count). but fuck me, if I donāt know exactly the kind of person youāre referring toā¦ :|
also
without making it too obvious because youāre fairly certain theyāre armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up
ZA has many problems (and oh christ could I wax lyrical), but thank fuck I do not live in fucking eaglecountry
itās a whole fucked-up 'ole dynamic when you need to āwatch your backā in the most very literal sense because you didnāt eat some bozoās shit :|
:<
Wonder how the lawyers reacted when they got that treasure trove filled with stolen nazi gold during discovery.
Wonder how Power and Millerās lawyers reacted, lol
They will certainly win a lot of drinks in any āwho has had the dumbest clientsā contests.
āAnd then we found the āIām definitely a Nazi now lolā messageā is a great punchline for a dumbest client ever joke
I read the judgement quite carefully and it makes no reference at all to the discovery material. the only evidence it demonstrates awareness of is public or is testimony
the faster training data gets polluted the faster ai companies get fucked. therefore, I propose the deliberate creation of unmarked ai compost piles on reddit and discord: ācommunitiesā managed so as to minimize visibility to humans while generating large quantities of shit data
We could just mix corporate and bot responses to all content at a 99:1 ratio so the AI companies struggle to tell the difference. Also no need to do anything, as this is running on reddit right now.
if this were running you would be unlikely to know about it. the novel part is not spamming reddit, itās trying to do so strictly to target ai companies, without humans ever seeing the result
Couldnāt find the way to turn this into a pithy blog post so just dumping it here:
does anyone else feel that the rationalists want a future of a billion trillion virtual humans, each and every one with an immutable gender bit set?
it is a little entertaining to hear them do extended pontifications on what society would look like if we had pocket-size AGI, life-extension or immortality tech, total-immersion VR, actually-good brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, etc. etc. and then turn around and pitch a fit when someone says āokay so imagine if there were a type of person that wasnāt a guy or a girlā
Shouldnāt they be fans of The Culture? And didnāt The Culture have people changing gender for any reason (including curiosity), and it was accepted?
(It was years since I read those books, so I could confuse it with something else.)
Shouldnāt they be fans of The Culture?
I always assume that a large part of Rationalism is intellectual masturbatory contrarianism. (Aka contrarianism to make yourself feel smarter and better. See also how important it is for some of them that Sneerclub is a bunch of losers with no accomplisments (We donāt even blog!)). So I doubt it.
Hey! I blog!
Seldom more than a couple paras tho.
Sorry, if you can read a blog post in less than 30 minutes it is a Rationalist footnote. ;)
the Culture humans accepted being subsumed into a Mind after 400 years, so Yudkowsky disapproves. He also dislikes The Minds.
holy fuck, Yud criticizing Banks is fucking exhausting, and I keep getting angry seeing this barely readable shithead try to tear down the work of a sci-fi author he clearly doesnāt like because people keep bringing up the Culture novels as a counter to his horseshit, and because theyāre more fun and fulfilling to read than Yudās nonsense ever will be
so I tapped out early and quote mined the 400 years part:
They live, in perfect health, for generally around four hundred years before choosing to die (I donāt quite understand why they would, but this is low-grade transhumanism weāre talking about).
yud. buddy. that novel explains why they would in the same chapter that describes a Culture citizen going through with the voluntary decision to die. itās boredom. the major motive force behind almost everything the Culture does is boredom, because its constituent beings want for nothing. the civilization as a whole knows that existence for human-like beings becomes intensely, painfully boring (just like reading yudās output!) around the 400 year mark, and the Culture has both removed any stigma around voluntarily ending a painful existence and any reason to prolong it past your own comfort. after that, you can enjoy an afterlife of being acausally pampered by every networked Culture Mind.
thereās even a version of the voluntary death and afterlife process for entire galactic civilizations called Subliming, where every natural and artificial lifeform in your civilization becomes a singular being of pure energy and transitions into another dimension. just like with uploaded organic beings, Sublimed civilizations can still influence our dimension, but almost always donāt care to. the Culture is actually considered somewhat tacky by other galactic civilizations for being at a fairly late stage in its development without Subliming. they know how to do it, so chances are they just arenāt bored enough yet.
yud omits this (probably, Iām not gonna go back and check), but anyone who chooses an infinite existence at the cost of their own sanity is considered a fucking weirdo who should be sneered at. the Culture isnāt gonna end your existence (they donāt do murder, and thereās a possibly even bigger stigma against forcibly altering a sentient beingās mind) but theyāre also not gonna actively enable you to self-harm.
Subliming
Somebody in the comments points this out and he gets annoyed with this as some sort of literary device to not do the hard transhumanist work or something.
Which is odd, as subliming is fine as if this wasnāt there humans minds and mind minds could do a singularity style intelligence explosion afterwards you couldnāt describe things because of the singularity style event. And Banks wrote science fiction which is always about humans, and not āthe period after beings become so powerful we cannot really tell what is going on anymore as the increase of intelligence has reached infinityā
Subliming sidesteps this problem because it wants to be interesting fiction, and not weird gobbledygook of incomprehensible alien minds. Yud basically forgets that The Culture is science fiction written for real human beings who live now.
But even that was optional right, it was just the cultural standard, nobody forced them to do it.
It gets even odder in a way, iirc the more destructive megolomaniacs (or cult leaders or whatever) who couldnāt really accept that they are not allowed to use up massive amounts of resources/lives of other people were kindly suggested to play out these fantasies in VR, which I assume works on standard science fiction logic that it can be sped up, so those 400 years can stretch a long time in the computonium. (So the culture includes the LW virtual lives fantasy).
(Iām also pretty sure Yud is wrong about the Culture, iirc living by your strength certainly is a thing, it just has a fallback where you donāt die if you fail via the robots etc of the Culture (And I think even that could be turned off in most cases)).
Anyway the article linked, and the conversation with the straw SF fan (who is heated while he stays calm) says more about Yud than the Culture.
What is it with Rats extolling The Player of Games above other Culture novels? Itās the one HN likes best too. Itās probably the only one Iāve not re-read. Maybe itās how the main character is kinda seduced by the parody of patriarchal capitalism in the culture heās coerced to infiltrate.
Personally I think Use of Weapons is the best one.
i would think they didnāt read it carefully, and/or until the end, and donāt realise that ultimately itās gurgehās revulsion at azadās societal rules, and him fully embracing the cultureās values, that allows him to win and burn the empire to pieces.
Obvsly youāve read the novel more than I have considering your nickā¦ I might have to give it another go.
OTOH Iād rather re-read the non-M novels first, especially Espedair Street.
tbh i used mawhrin-skel just because i needed a new drone, and twitter (at the time) bonked my skaffen-amtiskaw persona ā i named the murdering british soldier that cannot be named in the united kingdom (david james cleary); i definitely value other culture books more than player of games. :-)
select the Banks extract, pass through wc:
1677select the yudā¦emanation, do same:
13442at this stage itās likely the basilisk will torture him purely for entropic revenge. information-theoretic retribution.
entropic revenge. information-theoretic retribution.
Thereās a metal ballad in there, I swear.
other album track titles:
- cascading infinity
- which mirror is me? [am I? - interlude]
- the quintillionth heartbreak
- lies of being
Case in point, or the exception that proves the rule: Is being a trans woman (or just low-T) +20 IQ?
Warning: This post might be depressing to read for everyone except trans women.
Actual warning: This post and the comments is a particularly bad example of rationalists being red-pilled sexists. Even by rationalist standards. Donāt say I didnāt warn you.
But yeah this goes way back and is really enmeshed in their worldview. Robin Hanson has been blogging terrible takes about gender for almost 20 years on Overcoming Bias, which Lesswrong split off from.
donāt mention skull sizes for 5 minutes challenge
Itās so cute (euphemism for concerning) how their image of the average trans woman is a white computer science rationalist poster and not, like, a South American sex worker or something.
Why didnāt evolution give females big heads if it would make them all geniuses? Another anecdote. My sister has a big head. She was valedictorian in high school I think. She hit her head one day in middle school during gym class by running into a wall. She also fell off a bike and hit her head in high school. I have never hit my head and I think the main reason is that my arms are strong enough to catch myself. So maybe the big headed women would-be-ancestors fell and hit their heads.[1]
Classics of Reason
Yeah, in my opinion Slatestarcodex also said something like that, that the idea of Rationalism lead to transphobia. (others read that part as being more anti-transphobia, or with a more positive slant re Rationalism/Scott).
Not a huge surprise if you fetishise math and numbers, and miss the point of seeing like a state.
When my local civilians get drawn into the conflict
via Little Bubby Child
I could hear this while reading it ahaha
Right?!
Being far from home at the moment, I really appreciate Bubbyās mountain vibes. Feels like a trip to Grannyās house.
https://matduggan.com/a-eulogy-for-devops/
Possibly interesting blog post about what the idea of ādevopsā promised, and how it failed to deliver. With any luck, the āgetting back to basicsā thing will actually happen, instead of people imagining they are google and building nightmares out of kubernetes.
Cloudflare making the bet thereās money in offering AI-scraping protection:
Dan Luuās āA discussion of discussions on AI biasā, about techbros trying to gaslight the rest of the world into thinking ML models donāt have problems
Another example which doesnāt make a good viral news story is my not being able to put my Vietnamese name in the title of my blog and have my blog indexed by Google outside of Vietnamese-language Google ā I tried that when I started my blog and it caused my blog to immediately stop showing up in Google searches unless you were in Vietnam. Itās just assumed that the default is that people want English language search results and, presumably, someone created a heuristic that would trigger if you have two characters with Vietnamese diacritics on a page that would effectively mark the page as too Asian and therefore not of interest to anyone in the world except in one country.
the entire post is very good, but my brain zeroed in on this as both a perfect example of why search was absolutely fucked even before LLMs (who in fuck deploys a language heuristic that doesnāt take the content of the page into account? who asked for this?) and of the engineering attitudes that feed into LLMs and generative AI having unevaluated biases and defenders that insist those biases canāt be real
I run into this exact problem so often with music: itās extremely fucking annoying to convince search engines or other kinds of things that, yes, I do in fact want that turkish/finnish/russian/brazilian/thai/irish/ā¦ā¦ result set from this english query, and thereās just almost zero affordance for it
they segment things into de facto silos and if you donāt already happen to have some way in which to pull on a string to lead the way there (or can input the desired query in the applicable language and spelling) youāll have a bitch of a time. check a couple of those items from my entries on the music thread a while back for references to test with
god damn those recasting images
it will never not be hilarious how pathetic this technology/approach is
Every day I become more convinced that this acct is an elaborate psyop being run by Yann LeCun to discredit doomers. Nobody could be this gullible IRL, right?
im doing my part
I went to the study, and thatās the global market size for all sex toys annually, and just eyeballing another chart, butt plugs might be 10% of that. So butt plugs are around $3 or $4 Billion. On the bright side, unlike AI safety, butt plugs actually serve a function.
Meatloaf didnāt anticipate the budgetary implications of enlisting us all in the Armies of the Night. Thus, humanity was ill-prepared when Skynet attackedā¦
Oh my god. The AI chatbots which were designed to mimic human writing are saying stuff exactly like the sci-fi stories I read online. They must be alive.
Amazing.
I also remember another time people did the 'let two AIās (no idea what time it was at the time, certainly not an LLM, some other ML technique) talk to each other, but in a actual production setting (E:I was wrong on the setting, see the article for better info->), the Facebook/Meta one (First link I could find on google, didnāt read it, just a way to find out more for people who never heard about it). But then it started to produce gibberish/ātheir own languageā. Of course this was also a sign of it āwaking upā.
And I note again that in the LLM experiment, the āAGIāsā are still keeping perfectly fine to the bounds of the experiment, even if they do or do not directly reference the researcher. They still play into the fiction, as talking to the researcher about the other AI is part of the fiction. It would be more interesting if they did something unexpected than regurgitate video game ingame notes.
static dot dot dot emergency dot dot dot shutdown
lol
āmultiple realitiesā
Come on, I have written similar things while roleplaying as an AI. The first is useful when you need a quick break to go to the toilet, and the second is a good excuse because you made a mistake a real fictional AI couldnāt make.
E: also funny that they worry about the shoggoth behind the friendly face and then get freaked out when the AIās talk in normal science fiction fluff to each other, and it doesnāt become incoherently weird. (like the example above).
Iāve sat and had beer with someone (whoās worked in the space but not LLMs) who read the Bitter Lesson and got real into the idea of humans ājust being universal function approximatorsā and had wholesale bought into the idea that we should throw everything we possibly can into this shit, no resource cost or requirement is too high or too uncertain, that it would definitely be the right thing to so
so I can tell you without no uncertainty that there are definitely people who buy into it
I poked the conversation gently, to see how far the conviction went. it was pretty comprehensively bought-in. was a somewhat surprising experience tbh
How did they respond to the counterargument that humans are simplyā¦ built different?
that was the response. and this is a person with exposure to (and their own undertakings in) creative works
it was a pretty wild conversation tbh
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Off Topic: Politcs
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Best of luck to our folks in the UK, enjoy the Tory tears!
I doubt any of you are following Dutch politics. But it is day 3 of the new (far right) cabinet, and day 1 and 2 were already a clown show. I think today they are going on āvacationā (summer recess), so nothing will be done. āLekker gewerkt jongensā
Sounds like a real āDog caught the carā situation. Do you think theyāll be able to cause much permanent damage to the institutions before they get turfed out?
Sadly I think they will do quite a lot of damage, but most of it is by just not solving any issues which are issues currently (and pretending non-issues, like immigration, are huge problems). They donāt really seem competent enough yet to do real damage. (yeah, Iām including Wilders, who has been a politician all his life in this list). But a lot of damage has already been done. A lot of racists feel like they are allowed to be racist again for example. (a similar thing you heard coming from France, with the current rise of Le P, people going āah soon we are going to bash the gays againā).
Oddly our cabinet has always been mostly rightwing basically (at least the past 14 years), so it is really weird to see the far right pretend like the left has had any power.
A lot of the dumb plans also cannot be done because of the EU. So a lot of people who voted for the current parties (like the radicalized bougie farmers) will be hurt a lot, so it will get worse later after they canāt get jack shit done. (Which, as always with protofascists, will be purely blamed on others).
āah soon we are going to bash the gays againā
I hate how so many people are genuine assholes at heart.
It goes to show how important it is to put fascists in lockers.
I remember I used to watch this guyās videos, and the icon for the image viewer in serenity was pepe the frog. And he also admitted to browsing 4chan. And he changed his twitter link to x.com before even twitter changed it. Also it was kinda weird that he had some private discord channels whose contents he was very secretive of. Now that heās making a nonprofit with githubās former CEO, there is absolutely zero barriers to the exact same bullshit from all the companies he complains about.
Ehhhh. This is the identical PR they ended up accepting: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648
I have feels about the implied āthe author behaves like a shithead because heās ESLā but eh. If it works.
yeah, pretending that this is just a misunderstanding of the language is a bit disingenuous, but iām not going to argue with the results.
this:
ah fuck I didnāt know Ladybird had those people involved (was only aware of project existence and reasons), fuck :<
well this fucken sucks. I was rooting for the dude and his projects.
Personally havenāt seen a headline about Olā Billy Boy ever since word got around that he was a diamond medallion member of the lolita express airlines. William Gatorade thinks AIās got what climate craves, i.e. waste heat.
Gates also mentioned that AI will be a good force in providing better health care and tackling climate change, in particular by calling nuclear fusion energy a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
Ah yes, fusion. With the wealth of data we have from - checks notes - stars and bombs, the applied statistics machines will surely be able to extrapolate working fusion reactors.
Donāt know what we need Gates for. Surely an AI should be able to spout this bullshit?
i think that openai also wanted to solve their problems with fusion, but they got a step further, they made a startup for this. not normal nuclear power plant hot rock machine, no, they want tech that is perpetually Just A Decade Away. it makes some perverse sense if your funding is dependent on misguided hype only
Donāt know what we need Gates for. Surely an AI should be able to spout this bullshit?
Ugh, so many people are working the āAI will solve X problemā mill. I donāt need nor want AI to be there increasing output.
fusion research is just thinnest disguise for thermonuclear weapons research, especially the inertial confinement fusion variety
Eh, thereās a chance that machine learning might help hereā¦ thereās some interesting stuff come out of that area of research, like radio antennae and rocket engines and so on, but Iād bet anything that a) no LLMs were involved and none ever will be, and b) āaiā only appears in marketing copy and funding pitches.
dunno about rockets, but antenna thingy works only because you can simulate performance of antenna very reliably, precisely and quickly. This data was fed back, random small changes were made, things that were an improvement passed to the next iteration. Not sure how this approach is called but none of it is LLM
āgenetic algorithmā - something I hadnāt previously seen branded as āAIā, but I guess Iām not surprised
yeah thatās it, forgot a word for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
that ST5 antenna looks like a low-poly two turn helical antenna, but how it looks like will be a function of design requirements
GAs went out of the limelight before the rest of the beaus of current āAIā branding came to be, suspect that might be part of it
(Another suspicion is that itās because theyāreā¦fairly observable, ito operation? So itās far less easily claimable that one of these has gained sentience, or all the other dumb bullshit that the cluster has spun in recent years)
Why is he carrying books and DVDs on a baking sheet?
He has a smart oven with AI and wants to feed it data?
FEED ME,
SEYMOURBILLY!
One is by David Brooks, so itās guaranteed to be half baked?
me talking to someone after describing a dumb and horrible LW thing:
i feel like iām describing a livejournal fanfic cult, which i guess i am
one of the worse things about LW is that even just explaining their beliefs to uninvolved people makes you look like a complete weirdo
Iāve (irl) met a āpart-timeā LW reader and tried to have a conversation about some of the shit, and ā¦ same experience
just utterly had no ability to even receive the information about the longstanding sexual abuse or statements of yud being a charisma-for-nerds grifter
(had an earlier conversation with āem some many months prior calling out many of issues in coiner world after theyād gone laser-eyes having read the bitcoin paper, and they eventually got their head out of their ass, soā¦. Iām hopeful itās not all lost yet)
Well the FFVII house was kinda like a rationalist grouphouseā¦
wait. Youāre telling me a poly nest based on FF7 fandom exist(s/ed)? And I wasnāt part of it?!?!?!
thatās a big oof for me dawg
as a former member of multiple livejournal fanfic circlejerks, I am so sad that LW didnāt join the rest of LJ in (1) getting off or (2) being mean on fandom_wank, and instead decided to create the torment nexus.
i expect dreamwidth took one look and Denise got out the flamethrower
hahaha no failfandomanon is extremely at Dreamwidth, but I think the wankiest people mostly moved to other places in recent years.
Dan Hendrycks wants us all to know itās imperative his AI kill switch bill is passed- after all, the cosmos are at stake here!
https://xcancel.com/DrTechlash/status/1805448100712267960#m
Super weird that despite receiving 20 million dollars in funding from SBF & co. and not being able to shut the fuck up about 10^^^10 future human lives the moment he goes on a podcast, Danny boy insists that any allegations that he is lobbying on behalf of the EAs are simply preposterous.
Now please hand over your gpus uwu, itās for your safety š¤ we donāt allow people to have fissile material, so why would we allow them to multiply matrices?
Tired: The earth is doomed due to climate change :(
Wired: Ignore that stuff; the cosmos are at stake unless we burn our planet generating bad AI generated āpoetryā
Inspired: Oh wait oh no, Oh no. this is where Vogon Poetry came from isnāt it? Burn it all down.
turns out there was a good reason they wanted to turf us, we just didnāt know it yet
Ex-evangelical spotted!
What is it about growing up in insular fundamentalist communities that drives peeps straight into the basiliskās scaly embrace?
Theres a specific word for that phenomena I believe, I just canāt remember at the moment. It certainly is a thing with all the high control group cults, say ex-JWās.
Crank magnetism?
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