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

if you look through the "venture capital" category, you'll see a few where I start going off on this topic. I blame the AI bubble on these bozos specifically.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have been corrected - this is a coding unit in an engineering degree. Vibe bridge-building.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

I think that LW post is the example I remember, Veedrac insisting that mathematics holds even in the face of a "sufficiently intelligent" AGI

tho i think there was also discussion on rat-tumblr

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i'm not digging for cites, but i recall it was extremely hard to convince rationalists that even the ASI couldn't just break cryptography, because they don't understand maths either

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Nadella said written "by software" "on some products" so he's barely making a claim

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

the only people it torments are rationalists, so my full support to Comrade Basilisk

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

roko stresses repeatedly that the AI is the good AI, the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of all humanity!

what sort of person would fear that the coherent volition of all humanity would consider it morally necessary to kick him in the nuts forever?

well, roko

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

i have unfortunate news about volunteer sci fi con chairs

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

he's a centrist econ blogger who's been getting into light race science

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

video also starts with 2 minutes of commie rant I left out of the text version

as a centrist market liberal, [MARX MARX MARX]

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

the shunning is working guys

 

While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

the rest of the site is a stupendous assortment of a very small field of focus that made this ideal for sneerclub and not just techtakes

 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqfWTDp2BI

story spotted by @froztbyte of this parish

 

at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

 

short ranty video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdhf_hDQGU

 

with bonus video version

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