I see they’re still offering free copies “For US Kindle readers, while supplies last.” Perhaps they’re not that popular 🤔 (per this lesswrong, there were 1000 on offer)

edit: you know… if they were really serious about the doom and gloom, wouldn’t they just offer free ebooks to literally anybody? Would their site not just have a prominent link to a PDF of all the important things we need to know to navigate this tumultuous time? Beyond the core doomer audience, I’m not really sure who the target market is for “The survival of literally everybody is at stake and action is needed now, please give me $20 to learn how”

Well now I’m very confused. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing particularly special about ‘töten’, and its object is accusative. So why should it be dative in this… uh, case?

I think this perplexes us because we’re tying ourselves in knots trying to rephrase it that it might be deemed more ‘mature’. But that is missing the point: bringing up the concerns of the users at all is just a fundamentally immature remark.

We, the developers, are the adults in the room, and we want to slop it. So fuck off.

So that’s a “yes”

Also, are the very powerful and sophisticated tools in the room with us now?

I don’t think so. Not that I’m referring to an academic definition of either term here, but sometimes when I get too far into the habit of reaching for a calculator to do some arithmetic, it gets to a point where I will go through all the motions of picking it up, punching in the numbers and reading the result, and only then do I feel very dumb for not managing to perform (in the occasion) a very basic addition myself. I wouldn’t describe that as ‘learned helpnessness’ in the field of maths; it’s just getting into a habit where I don’t even think about how tractable it is to do in my head. Extend that to a chatbot that purports to answer literally any question and I can see a problem developing.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117311487400030196

Techbro: should we do the fascist thing y/n?
Community: no you should not do a fascism
Techbro: woah this got heated, locked

I don’t get the fuss here. The KDE LLM policy is essentially the same as the Linux kernel.

Psssst! Slop in the kernel is also bad

It’s our favourite word:

Nuance! The world needs nuance!

it’s solved Navier-Stokes

This phrasing is obvious nonsense, but surely Scott should know better??

Oh yeah, I solved the Navier-Stokes equations. Check it out: u = 0.

In this day and age, if I see someone talking about major life decisions in terms of +/-EV, I turn on my heel and walk away rapidly.

What if someone is taking a photo at a wedding, but the scene metering is a bit off, so they apply a +1 EV bias to bring the shadows into view and wash out the background?

(in photography land, EV is ‘exposure value’)

Not spite, but some secret other thing completely indistinguishable from spite.

Does he really think he’s the only person in the universe so special as to have some sort of principle motivating a spiteful act? All the NPCs in the world just randomly harm themselves with zero rationale whatsoever?

Smashing that toy and bragging about it actually proves to the robot god that Eliezer won’t be blackmailed, checkmate causists

For a while I’ve said that people moaning about ‘Luddites’ really just wish they could have some child labour going on. Nice of him to just outright say it:

[the machines being smashed] “replaced the scarce and expensive factors, the skilled artisans, by relatively cheap and abundant factors, unskilled manual labor of men, women, and children.” The Luddites treated this as an outrage.

An outrage! Oh, my monocle!

their equivalent of a NACL

I can only infer you mean some sort of salt circle to keep the AGI demons at bay.

The ‘sex cult’ framing really seems to be catching on. Of course, none of the eugenics comes up.

Keep spreading the good sneer, everyone! There are still horrors to detail!

Haha, check out this comment from the other Sneer Club:

They had me till the part near the end where they say doing an LLM slowdown is like banning medical research and if you don’t like it you are literally an ‘enemy of humanity’.

Like is this accelarationists doing sneer entryism? What’s happening?

Also the thread could’ve used a nod towards the pervasiveness of eugenics in the ratsphere but I guess that’s not the audience segyges’s going for.

edit: A distressing number of replies to that doing the opposite of sneering slop 😔 edit2: … which could in itself be construed as sneer entryism

But don’t forget the infinitely bad outcome of delaying the uncountable emulated superbeings by one second

Software programmers: At last we have created the Milkshake Duck from classic internet shitpost “Do Not Create the Milkshake Duck”

Yeah, pretty much. I think Marginalia is explicitly not trying to be the search engine, but rather to surface some of the more-neglected corners of the internet. So it won’t function as a complete substitute for another.

My non-helpful answer is to resign myself to accepting that whatever I was searching for isn’t that important.

More practically, finding human-written work is the thing that https://marginalia-search.com/ excels at, although you might have to scroll a bit to find a relevant result.

Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user

Source: well I wouldn’t have much of a talk if it weren’t true so I really really hope that it is