Yeah, I know, it is a personal thing from me. I have more of those, think it isn’t helpful to use certain too general terms in specific cases as then you cast a too wide net. I fun at parties. (It is also me poking fun at how the soviets called everybody who disagreed with them a reactionary)

Considering how rightwingers have tried to link gayness to pedophilia this is a subject I would avoid if I was them. E: and gwern just goes there.

Yes the 2 rs in strawberry machine thinks. In the same way that an airplane flies. /s

E: it gets even worse as half the AI field says the airplanes fly like how birds do. That is why the anthropomorphization is bad. Because it both doesn’t think as in the function, nor think as in the system. And by anthropomorphizing people make it look like it can do both.

fascinating

Nooo run! Beware the lure of the abyss that is learning more about this stuff. Remember you cannot unlearn things!

That doesn’t matter, they still are the ‘clueless’ AI doomers vs the ‘sociopathic’ Altman (doubt much ‘losers’ work there). (I’m using these terms here specifically like how the insight porn ribbonfarm thing did. And I mean it as a joke, ribbonfarm is part of their insight blog culture, they just don’t actually learn much from the things they read).

To explain, the clueless believe in the work the company is doing and will work hard without really looking at advancing their own career, they are the true believers (they still can be real life sociopaths, if they work for the art in the woodchipper company for example). The sociopaths are the ones who are in it to improve their own career will fuck over and abuse the clueless for their own advancement/enrichment. Losers know it is just a job, a paycheck, they do their job nothing more and go home, have a family, hobbies, touch grass, live a rich full life. There I saved you a novel length of blog posts (im not kidding btw, the ebook (sold on amazon of course) is 171 pages).

reactionaries

So, how does any of this relate to wanting to go back to an imagined status quo ante? (yes, I refuse to use reactionary in any other way than to describe politcal movements. Conservatives do not can fruits).

E: I see i got a downvote, ow god do we have tankies?

I wonder if they already made up terms like ‘bloggophobic’ or ‘peer review elitist’ in that ‘rightwinger tries to use leftwing language’ way.

I just remember a professor saying that after he filled the board with proofs and math. ‘the rest is trivial’ not sure if it was a joke, as I found none of it trivial. (and neither did the rest of the people doing the course).

Yes, there was a big hype in the upcoming biotech revolution in popular transhumanist media a ~decade ago. Lot of it seems to have fizzled out or gone nootropics like stuff. (And even that is meh).

Yeah this kind of stuff is why im not the biggest fan of the tescreal label.

All of this could have been prevented if the Rationalists has just read the insight porn article in ribbonfarm about sociopaths etc in the workplace. ;)

“Imagine a technology so useless you cannot run doom on it” https://bsky.app/profile/sosowski.bsky.social/post/3lm63a2srgc24

Different rant, but why are so many sites so slow? Loading times seem to have gone up, not down.

Please note this is rethorical, dont be like the sites asking me if I want to turn on notifications.

Wow ai usage does reduce your critical reading skills.

Come on dream bigger. This container ship is my diplomatic pouch. Ever Given declared act of god and sainted.

To steal and butcher Davids/Buttcoins (no idea who came up with it) slogan. ‘they are explaining it wrong, but no they can’t be that stupid right?’

I have not read the article yet, but isn’t part of the whole accellerationism thing that you accelerate the decline of the current system so your glorious new system can arise (because it is obviously better). Seems to me like it is the same stuff, they just disagree which faction will prevail after the fall.

E: amazing they only now realize they cant galt gulch it out, and that they are part of the world. Damn evil Ents, this is why your wives left you.

Yeah their site is so badly coded it happens to me at times as well. Which says a lot of things.

This reminds me of how allround crazy person Scott Adams also claimed he successfully predicted Trumps first win. But he didnt. He predicted a landslide win, and not him losing the popular vote. That last part people forget when they claim he predicted it correctly. Figure kot of that going on here with the Rationalists claims. Predictions like this are easy to go ‘well it didnt happen for the reasons I thought and also did not happen totally as i said it would, but I still got it correctly’. Esp as they want to be superpredictors. (And yes we also do it, but we are not a group who pretends to be anti bias rational trained supernerds as a larger project).

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