Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Not sure if they still do it, but iirc the scp sire also had a "no roleplay" rule which is also pretty wise to get people into the mindset of treating it as fiction, and a way to tell stories. Gets people out of the mind of "what would I do in that world" and into "what would make the story better".

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

I used to do work maintaining a wiki, and the amount of random spam getting past spam filters (which somebody else maintained) was already pretty high then (esp when something was getting past the filters). I have no idea how bad it is nowadays, but I have a lot of respect for the people who maintain all our infrastructure and keep it shit free. (No not you google).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Qntm, one of the people who writes for the SCP Foundation site, also has a thread on it from the fiction writing angle.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

I think that is it tbh. There was no big centralized profit, so no need to hype it up.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Could also just be environment, pretty hard to stay on one site staunchly if half the people around you are then people your radically oppose.

Also wonder about the only game in town factor

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They added that Lasker is a “pathological liar”

Yeah, see also the tweets from his sister I think, where he lied to a lot of fam members about his academic background/etc.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah but I was trying to combine complexity theory as a loose theory misused by tech people in relation to 'people who get fired'. (Not that I don't appreciate your post btw, I sadly have not seen any pro-AI people be real complexity theory cranks re the capabilities. I have seen an anti be a complexity theory crank, but that is only when I reread my own posts ;) ).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago

They now deleted their post and I assume a lot of others, but they also claim they have no time to really write and just wanted a collection of stories for their kid(s). Which doesnt make sense, creating 700 pages of kids stories is a lot of work, even if you let a bot improve the flow. Unless they just stole a book of children's stories from somewhere. (I know these books exist, as a child from one of my brothers tricked me into reading two stories from one).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but we never got that massive hype cycle for 3d printers. Which in a way is a bit odd, as it could have happend. Nanomachine! Star trek replicators! (Getting a bit offtopic from Galloway being a cryptobro).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Iirc Galloway was a pro cryptocurrency guy. So this tracks

E: imagine if the 3d printer people had the hype machine behind them like this. 'China better watch out, soon all manufacturing of products will be done by people at home'. Meanwhile China: [Laughs in 大跃进].

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Thats fair, if you want to be generous, if you are not going to be Id say there are still conceptually large differences between the quote and "shit happens". But yes, you are right. If only they had listened to Scott when he said "talk less like robots"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Recently, I've realized that there is a decent explanation for why so many people believe that - if we model them as operating under a strict zero-sum game model of the world… ‘everyone loses’ is basically an incoherent statement - as a best approximation it would either denote no change and therefore be morally neutral, or an equal outcome, and would therefore be preferable to some.

Yes, this is why people think that. This is a normal thought to think others have.

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