swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

BRB training an LLM to be a super-goalpost-mover

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone too cowardly to explore their kinks. I lack context. Now you have provided data to reinforce my reticence.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

How did we get here? This is not my beautiful wife.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

They could be running it through language translation (as well)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

They got tired of all the "SV keeps re-inventing trains and buses à la carcinisation"* memes and decided to remove them from public consciousness altogether

*Yes, I did initially misread "transport" as "public transport" and not "internet transport" even after skimming the article. No, I will not change this joke. Yes, I look like a fool now, but when silicon valley vertically integrates away your precious commute I'll look like the best damn prediction marketeer out there.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I’d compare your intelligence to a bag of rocks, but that would require you to know what a comparison is.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

I think you should leave.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1832452673867546802

I didn't want to watch the cartoon because I thought I could just skim the story faster, and that's how I read the "Hurr durr AI can derive general relativity in three frames, nothing personnel, kid" story in full for the first time. It sucks that people didn't nip Yud in the bud early enough by telling him he lacked sci-fi chops, though I suspect that wouldn't have slowed him down at all.

The story itself is an allegory^1^ about AI processing information fast^2^. Yud wasn't thinking of himself as a sci-fi writer when writing this; he probably thought he was the messiah delivering a sermon, which... is exactly how I've come to understand Yud anyway.

  1. the fact of which is explicitly spelt out in the middle third when it drops out of the narrative entirely to do so
  2. see hurr durr description in paragraph above
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Angrily puts away bludgeon

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