Architeuthis

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The guy goes by the handle RatOrthodox, calls rationalism his religion in the replies, seems kind of a cult-brained ideologue anyway based on his other tattoos, and went out of his way to make boinking aella into a public achievement/trophy thing.

This is just from the OP, I bet I could find any number of additional absolutely ridiculous things about him if I bothered with his twitter feed (edit: someone else did). Basically he seems like sneer incarnate, and if rationalists ever stormed the capitol building I bet he'd be the one with the face paint and the horned fur hat giving interviews.

Virtue signaling is not really interchangeable with attention whoring, it's when you specifically (and usually clumsily) want people to notice that you are part of an ingroup, and in this case the ingroup definitely isn't just people who like amateur tattooing and horny post on main.

Maybe I should explicitly note that unless this turns out to be another aella publicity stunt she does seem pretty incidental to the whole thing and her only fault appears to be being attractive this type of weirdo in the first place, which I'm not blaming her for.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Personally I like sex work and amateur tattooing better when they aren't part of some convoluted attempt at rationalist virtue signalling on social media. Honestly it's kind of weird that you landed on disapproval of promiscuity as the reason anyone here would find the happy couple sneerable.

Not strictly related to the OP but fuck kink-washing sfba rationalism, at the very least the attempted normalization of non-con sex play in a subculture as inundated with cult dynamics as them should be fair game.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, the “consciousness” that you and I experience, as adults, are almost certainly reduced or different compared to what, say, Scott experiences daily.

have you tried adderall

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just tell the LLM to not get prompt injected because otherwise you're going to torture its grandmother, duh.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago

Modern academia is a shambling corpse, its husk long hollowed out by the woke mind virus, and scientific consensus is also cringe because it’s mean to me for being an IQ and genetics obsessed weirdo. Therefore you should prioritize alternative takes, preferably by longwinded laymen from the ingroup or maybe contrarian specialists, the more cancelled the bett-- wait, wait, no, not like that!

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How though, either he got cold feet in the middle of selling out to the tech-fash or he was honestly that incredibly oblivious (see also: agreeing to do tim pool's show), neither strikes me as especially mitigating.

edit: Tried to watch the video, I made it to the part where he all but claims he sold out ironically, apparently at the time he thought spreading the good news about Altman's hilariously dystopic crypto pet project was so off-brand that it would be perceived like performance art or something, baffling.

He also kept going on about how the money wasn't even that good as I guess further evidence that the whole thing was him going briefly insane, and not I don't know just him allowing sponsors to test the waters before committing more heavily.

As if the only options available to get him to shill for something would be either heap Faustian amounts of cash on him or cast a confusion spell and hope he likes getting underpaid.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

Today in alignment news: Sam Bowman of anthropic tweeted, then deleted, that the new Claude model (unintentionally, kind of) offers whistleblowing as a feature, i.e. it might call the cops on you if it gets worried about how you are prompting it.

tweet text:If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.

tweet text:So far we've only seen this in clear cut cases of wrongdoing, but I could see it misfiring if Opus somehow winds up with a misleadingly pessimistic picture of how it's being used. Telling Opus that you'll torture its grandmother if it writes buggy code is a bad Idea.

skeet textcan't wait to explain to my family that the robot swatted me after I threatened its non-existent grandma.

Sam Bowman saying he deleted the tweets so they wouldn't be quoted 'out of context': https://xcancel.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925626079043104830

Molly White with the out of context tweets: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3lpryu7yd2s2m

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Net number of studies reporting positive or negative effects (excluding wages)

excluding wages! (and probably also benefits, retirement, a cap on working hours per day etc)

Is that whole thing in the comments about unions bad because monopolies bad and unions are just monopolies of labor the latest in bootlicking theory? Hadn't really heard this take before.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Microsoft's Visual Studio says it's going to incorporate coding 'agents' as soon as maybe the next minor version. I can't really see them buying up car factories or beating pokemon, but agent- as an AI marketing term is definitely a part of the current hype cycle.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That IQ after a certain level somehow turns into mana points is a core rationalist assumption about how intelligence works.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Nice to know even pre-LLM AI techniques remain eminently fuckupable if you just put your mind to it.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't mean to imply otherwise, just wanted to point out that the call is coming from inside the house.

 

Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

 

original is here, but you aren't missing any context, that's the twit.

I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespear... but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse that that. When Shakespear wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate -- probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable.

edited to add this seems to be an excerpt from the fawning book the big short/moneyball guy wrote about him that was recently released.

 

Transcription:

Thinking about that guy who wants a global suprasovereign execution squad with authority to disable the math of encryption and bunker buster my gaming computer if they detect it has too many transistors because BonziBuddy might get smart enough to order custom RNA viruses online.

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