dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 36 minutes ago

112 pages jfc

 

Thinking about how the arsing fuck to explain the rationalists to normal people - especially as they are now a loud public problem along multiple dimensions.

The problem is that it's all deep in the weeds. Every part of it is "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong."

With bitcoin, I have, over the years, simplified it to being a story of crooks and con men. The correct answer to "what is a blockchain and how does it work" is "it's a way to move money around out of the sight of regulators" and maybe "so it's for crooks and con men, and a small number of sincere libertarians" and don't even talk about cryptography or technology.

I dunno what the one sentence explanation is of this shit.

"The purpose of LessWrong rationality is for Yudkowsky to live forever as an emulation running on the mind of the AI God" is completely true, is the purpose of the whole thing, and is also WTF.

Maybe that and "so he started what turned into a cult and a series of cults"? At this point I'm piling up the absurdities again.

The Behind The Bastards approach to all these guys has been "wow these guys are all so wacky haha and also they're evil."

How would you first approach explaining this shit past "it can't be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong"?

[also posted in sneer classic]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DZZuCi95o - video

my delivery was near perfect on this video, i'm very pleased

 

yeah i'm sure Matt Levine, qntm and Wildbow are gonna be champing at the bit to attend wordy racist fest

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

tip from a discord:

I've been doing some micro tasking to train LLM's the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month it's all dried up, no tasks available. I can't help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

it would be nice if people ever read the history of their favourite thing

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsL5ye55VA8 - video

also I have finally cracked mic technique and frankly the video sounds AWESOME, play on headphones for Pivot to ASMR

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

It's just training the model

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

"it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

I need to put the threads together, but as far as I can tell OpenAI is singlehandedly responsible for the present bubble

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (14 children)

don't worry, you're probably just thick

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

best guess i've heard so far is they're trying to sell this shitass useless company before the bubble finally deflates and they're hoping the AI interviews of suckers are sufficient personal data for that

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

you don't understand, sam cured cancer or whatever

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

holy shitting fuck, just got the tip of the year in my email

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it's called kerplunk.com, a domain named after the sound of your balls disappearing forever

the market is gullible recruiters

founder is Jonathan Gallegos, his linkedin is pretty amazing

other three top execs don't use their surnames on Kerplunk's about page, one (Kyle Schutt) links to a linkedin that doesn't exist

for those who know how Dallas TX works, this is an extremely typical Dallas business BS enterprise, it's just this one is about AI not oil or Texas Instruments for once

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

what is it about the comedy article on a comedy site that is attracting the posters who are way too smart for us

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