Soyweiser

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

Archive.is because substack sucks. Remember Peter Todd, the ghost in the LLMs? New one of them dropped. Elara Voss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Also logging is hard, all the various channels are annoying (esp as th, and having to jump through various hoops just get into channels (hoops for which the instructions can be outdated/bad (one of them used a feature that was disabled on my machine for some reason, but nobody had realized that was possible)) is just nuts. And then there is the whole thing that Discord itself wants to make the platform as busy as possible by adding more and more moving things. I just want to chat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I have not tried to find out what kind of music they played, but the fact that the DJ complained about the music is just amazing. She will talk about this event for years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I assume they don't know teen pregnancies peaked in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Btw, the 'teen pregnancy' thing, is prob a bit ahistorical. If we use teen marriages as a standing for teen pregnancies, these were historically very low. (contrary to what people believe about the past, mostly because strategic marriages by rich people/nobles were not, but those people were not normal people) See: https://bsky.app/profile/nogoodwyfe.bsky.social/post/3lv2ehbn7pc2x

But reactionaries gotta go back to some imagined ideal past. No matter what actually learned people say. (and that is also why the far right is anti-intellectual).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

More publicity for or longtime friends: Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right, apparently the parties DJ was, as is tradition, a weird nerd: https://bsky.app/profile/alt-text.bsky.social/post/3lvxlb4migv2w (I linked to the alt text which was collected from the image, scroll up for the image itself).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd assume they need X pieces of ~~flair~~ propaganda to get their theilbucks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

OpenAI hss removed all the other models!

"Do not, my friends, become addicted to gpt 3. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence"

(Also typo).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Sorry to talk about this couple again, but people are discovering the eugenicists are also big time racists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

But was that before or after they wrote about it? (Doesnt really matter btw, just curious, slopper and clanker are pretty good)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Considering how bad these things are at math, see below, and how important math is for cryptography, see any textbook on it, this will be !!fun!!.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The early paperless offices were 'paper is explicitly banned'. It was really weird, and they seemed so proud.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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