bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I see ads for all the relevant conferences even without seeing any ads.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

The market can remain irrational for longer than you and I can remain ~~solvent~~ sane.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Heading towards a very enjoyable and economically sustainable future where the advertising industry is somehow bigger than the goods and services industries that supposedly need its services. But before I get into that, speaking of goods and services, this comment is sponsored by OpeRaid Shadow VPN, the only energy drink/razor blade delivery service for Pro Gamers…

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes! The thing I love most about browsing without adblock is seeing endless ads for tech conferences about programming languages I don't know, on platforms I don't use, held on continents where I don't live. I especially love the culty business lingo they use for pitching these conferences at me. No I'm not "obsessed" with anything my job involves and I'm frankly worried for anyone who is.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sites you visit can ask Chrome for your interests to show you ads.

Nifty. Let's ask what my browser has to offer instead (Firefox + uBlock Origin).

Sites can not show you ads.

Hmm that's a tough choice hmm.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that even people who do think about those abstract problems can come to different conclusions than them.

A lot of the stuff in the tip of the rationalist iceberg, the obsession with intelligence and logic, the quasi-dogmatic faith in exponentially improving technology, even stepping my toes into the eugenics territory and getting burned, these are all things I remember from my tween years. I have been in that headspace, thinking of all the same questions every single self-appointed child genius LessWronger is obsessed with. And yet, I came out of it all as a leftist SJW with a raging disdain for the techno-financial-idustrial complex.

What happened is that I grew up, had my views challenged, met and befriended more diverse groups of people, learned about alternative views and synthesized them with my own, gaining a more nuanced understanding of issues I thought I had "solved" in my head by the age of 15. The worst thing that could have happened to me is convincing everyone who disagrees with me is an NPC and walling myself in a bubble full of other insecure logic bros all firmly locked in the adolescent mindset of having figured everything out forever.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I've previously come to understand, Grimes genuinely does believe LLMs are superhumanly intelligent and rather sinister precursors to an apocalyptic AGI.

Despite this, the output of this GPT is apparently not ominous enough so she needs to write spooky edgelord shit in guise of the bot for attention.

I'm sure she would find some way to cope with the cognitive dissonance if this seeming contradiction was pointed out to her.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Sneer Club understands the Less Wrong worldview well enough. They just happen to reject it.

Wow, someone gets it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Have some strawberry jam. Yes, it's strawberry. I have this self-signed SSL certificate that proves it is. I can get my buddies to cross-sign it too if you want. Your taste buds must be wrong.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

I love the idea of my genome encoding someone else's athletic performance.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

A lot of things in programming are in fact evidence of natural selection rather than intelligent design.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

The hell even is that lambda for? Effective function? Effective wavelength?

Must be about the effective L this guy is constantly taking.

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