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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

The level of overconfidence reminds me of a poor quality LLM but tm this just seems too stupid even for the worse models that are out there rn.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nimisnimi@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago

Ever seen a potato tree? 🤦

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them "pommes de terre", apples of the earth. Ipso facto.

I will not be accepting questions at this time.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 51 minutes ago

The german term for horse shit is "horse apples", Pferdeäpfel. Proof that horses are really potatoes.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 57 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

I remember when my parents took me potato picking

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Right next to the apple vine

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

A Vine is just a flat tree after all

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I hate when we look at something and think "not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot"

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gens@programming.dev 1 points 34 minutes ago

@mork gibb Dakka!

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Must be a theoretical physicist. Has some real "spherical cow" energy.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Not a physicist. I suppose you could call Yudkowsky an anti-AI activist. And/or world-famous fan-fiction author. These would be strange but technically accurate ways to describe him.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Also as patient zero of Roko's Basilisk!

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago

I'd describe him as a person who doesn't know how potatoes work.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 hours ago

I think he means pear 🍐

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

From a biological standpoint, we don't classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do

Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Does that mean that ketchup is technically a preserve?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

In much the same way that cereal is soup.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 54 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man's intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.

this is why i can't take anything he says seriously.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is he also the dildo behind less wrong?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 3 hours ago
[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.

I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Roko's Basilisk is real, but only for LW rationalists. living with contradictions in our thinking and using gut feeling rather than obsessively chaining Bayesian priors together protected the rest of us.

seriously, Yudkowsky and others were tormented by the thought of the Basilisk. it's a literal mind virus. just one that requires a very specific host (true believers in Timeless Decision Theory.)

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is a really cool metaphor for fascism. If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded; if you fight it, you are punished but only if you are unsuccessful.

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded

well don't count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

In fairness, I wouldn't count on roko's basilisk either.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 6 hours ago

It will only be real if you don't make it real, or, uh... Wait a minute...

[–] lime@feddit.nu 20 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

it is, based on most people who read it, actually very good. the problems start when you analyse it in context with the author. ironically, same thing is true for the source material.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

the context makes it better, for me.

Harry is the protagonist, but he's not a good person. he's a ruthlessly utilitarian sociopath who takes himself far too seriously, but it's entertaining to watch his thought processes. again, much like the author.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 hour ago

i mean, as long as you don't go into it expecting to sympathise with the main character and get immersed in the story, yeah. it's not badly written, it's just bad.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 126 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.

[–] proper@lemmy.world 55 points 14 hours ago

i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 hours ago

Does this person know nothing.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 115 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.

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