Any of… what?

Yea I don’t think the Turing test is that great for establishing genuine artificial intelligence, but I also maintain that current state of the art doesn’t even pass the Turing test to an intellectually honest standard and certainly didn’t in the 60s.

Sounds like a straight (derogatory) version of homoiconicity.

What, so if there’s power that’s honest, harmless and sensible you’re supposed to… not speak truth to it?

A guy who knows the age of consent in every country by heart, except for financial regulations. There’s a lot of overlap too.

I was in an FTTP orgy once. It was kinda disappointing. I was the only one who even brought an ONT.

I agree, except with the first sentence.

1. I don’t think a computer program has passed the Turing test without interpreting the rules in a very lax way and heavily stacking the deck in the bot’s favor.
2. I’d be impressed if a machine does something hard even if the machine is specifically designed to do that. Something like proving the Riemann hypothesis or actually passing an honest version of Turing test.

BigTech, which critically depends on hyper-targeted ads for the lion share of its revenue, is incapable of offering AI model outputs that are plausible given the location / language of the request.

Hardly surprising given how insistently the ad industry seems to be to show me ads for things I actively dislike or otherwise wildly missing with the products, services or attention seekers it tries to match to my interests and demographic profile.

If it is indeed true that AI companies just do naive search-and-replaces on the inputs to have more diversity in the outputs, that seems like a really crude and low-effort solution and also way more giving a shit than I would expect from an AI company.

Ultimately I think the main disagreements between me and hackernewses is twofold. I don’t mind seeing black people, but I also don’t take LLMs and ML image generation models seriously as a tool for anything other than shitposting and spam production.

This one from the same is also funny

Here’s the pic in its full glory.

Tag yourself, I’m Testtomcels

I am simulating infinite copies of myself. For efficiency of implementation, each copy occupies the same physical and logical space. Unfortunately the risk of some of you getting a speck of dust in my eye – thus causing infinite harm – is nonzero, so please prepare to be omnicided. Apologies for the inconvenience.

I have to admit I like Bryan Cantrill. He might be a Silicon Valley lost causer romantic and hopelessly liberal startup brained techbro, but I like his charismatic wit, appreciation for technological history and willingness to take lessons from it and emphasis on moral integrity. Also I have been burned by the cloud and I want an Oxide rack for hobbyist purposes.

Is “problematic fave” a thing people still say? I hope he doesn’t turn out to be a sex creep or something. I hate having to loathe everyone famous in tech.

Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison among others proving that at least having billions of dollars doesn’t prevent you from experiencing the rather relatable human emotion of thanatophobia.

Oh it must truly suck to be them~

Being worried that someone calls you out for misidentifying a metal subgenre is a metal fan staple. In any case Moonsorrow is definitely at least BM adjacent and a lot of black metal musicians are pagan for… varyingly good reasons.

Did check if first if it doesn’t shout something vile however

Hmm dunno, “The ice blinds your eyes as far as the eye can see, the wind furiously slashes through hands, the mountains surround their prey…” Sounds pretty violent 😉

I’d feel pretty threatened if someone suddenly began messaging me in Finnish if not for the fact that I am Finnish myself.

And this is why whenever I send non-threats to people I oppose politically, I prefer black metal or WP skinhead lyrics.

It’s obvious the hospital security is unfamiliar with even the most famous of 90s anime. I was making an End of Evangelion reference, so it’s not like I was seriously jacking off to the coma patients

I think that’s roughly the idea, except replace “desk” with “penis”.

They’ve gone from math pets to math woodland creatures now?

So if you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, and thought…

I did read HPOMR and I also thought!

"You know, HPMOR is pretty good

OK, I didn’t exactly think that. But go on.

so far as it goes; but Harry is much too cautious and doesn’t have nearly enough manic momentum,

Dunno about Harry, but the story as a whole could have done with some momentum, manic or otherwise.

his rationality lectures aren’t long enough, and all of his personal relationships are way way way too healthy."

Nobody in their right mind would ever think any of this.

Their methodology gave conclusive and unquestionable evidence that people with caucasoid skull shape are innately and genetically predisposed towards knowing what a “regatta” is.