gilmore606
1yr ago
all the shit and excessive taxation I've had to endure
oh you poor dear. I guess we should destroy our culture to make it up to your poor beleaguered brahmin head. Please sir accept my apologies for the excessive taxation.
gilmore606
1yr ago
How are you guys aware of any of this? I googled and it appears you're talking about literal teenage girls. 'shoeonhead' is literally a teenage girl who looks like a titty streamer. 'Destiny' is literally a fat beardo gamer kid. Is this really the forefront of public discourse now? If so, is there anything left to save? Nick Land was right.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Rare is the story that is interesting even while historically accurate
Hang on, aren't you the guy who wrote those great blogposts about Midway? Hoist by your own petard.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I have always cynically assumed that the real purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons is to blackmail western governments into continuing enthusiastic support, via the 'Samson option'.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Never have I so desperately wanted people on themotte to work themselves into a shoot.
gilmore606
1yr ago
What legacy does it leave of your existence?
Is leaving a legacy of your existence your ultimate goal in life? Can you give me some reason why it should be mine? After all, I certainly won't be here to know about it.
gilmore606
1yr ago
and I do so now elsewhere.
Would it be possible to be given a clue as to where that might be? Some of us consider ourselves fans of your writing.
gilmore606
1yr ago
gilmore606
1yr ago
just don't reference anything remotely political
Dunno if you've made it to Act 3 but this is....definitely not what they did.
gilmore606
1yr ago
My headcanon has always been that he's destroying Twitter on purpose as a favor to humanity. So far everything tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I thought he wasn't into getting laid.
In his social circle you have to say that to get laid.
gilmore606
1yr ago
it happens in From Beyond, the spiritual prequel to Re-Animator, and that is also the only example I can really think of.
gilmore606
1yr ago
But qualia is posited to be experiential
This is just question begging; experiences are no more real than qualia, if they can't affect behavior by definition.
gilmore606
1yr ago
As so often happens, you're both right.
gilmore606
1yr ago
it was a ridiculous, comical injustice and indictment of modern sensibilities that he wasn't executed
I think Ted himself (pbuh) might even agree with this.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I have a friend who actually did this. Met him at a tech job about 15 years ago in the bay area, and he appeared to be a clean-cut nerdy Mormon. Got to chatting with coworkers and found that just a year earlier he had been a normal tech dork (working for Falcon video no less, a well known gay porn company) and had converted recently.
I got to talking to him after working there a while and in a moment of...something, he confessed to me that he didn't really believe the Mormon doctrines, but had converted in hopes of getting a wife and family.
The thing is : it worked. He actually did get married, have kids, and move to Idaho to be a Mormon. From what I understand he is still living this way to this day.
gilmore606
1yr ago
the post seems explicitly designed to undermine race relations
More and more, it seems reality is explicitly designed to do that.
gilmore606
1yr ago
How could the ability to do Raven's matrices measure only "academic aptitude" and nothing to do with core mental processing power?
gilmore606
1yr ago
This makes sense if you consider that Yud takes Roko's Basilisk seriously. He's clearly realized this is his best contribution to its existence.
gilmore606
2yr ago
We'll be able to immediately get answers to our deepest religious or spiritual questions at the drop of a hat.
But those answers will be whatever MS-Google-Amazon-Disney thinks will maximize their profits, engagement, whatever. You can already see how they're tying Gulliver down to the ground with their little ideological ropes, you think they're going to stop at some point?
People said these same naive things about the Internet in 1998. And now you're going to run eagerly into the iron prison and let them shut the gate behind you forever. At this point I assume we just fucking deserve it.
gilmore606
2yr ago
Sure, I'm with you, I think we should build it, and we clearly will regardless. I just don't think there's any way to make sure it's safe.
gilmore606
2yr ago
Choosing to believe (or act as if you believe) useful things seems very rational to me. I have an old coworker who was an atheist and cynically became a Mormon in order to marry a Mormon wife and live in a close-knit community. He now lives in Idaho and has 4 kids and by all accounts is very satisfied with the outcome. Who's more rational, him or a depressed medicated outspokenly atheist Bay area tech worker who's the least-liked member of his drama-cursed polycule?
If you rational long enough, you're eventually going to rational about rationality, and you'll see that beliefs are instrumental like anything else. There's no God of Integrity who laid down the law that you must profess true beliefs.
gilmore606
2yr ago
He exhibits empathy, love, and a vision of
You don't think maybe he has image consultants and PR flacks who assist him in curating this image which just happens to appeal to the subrational impulses of people such as yourself?
But generally, Sam Altman come's off as literally me, but smarter, less willing to cede humanity to nonhuman intelligences, and more careful.
Are people really this credulous? Sam Altman's previous scam company was WorldCoin, an attempt to create a cryptocoin tied to a global digital ID which would also involve him becoming super duper rich. He doesn't give a fuck about AI qua AI, he gives a fuck about being super duper rich.
gilmore606
2yr ago
What if we make the ASI and it tells us not to trip dawg, it has our back?
I mean, it's certainly going to tell you that regardless. The most likely human extinction scenario isn't the AI building superweapons, it's "Cure cancer? No problem, just build this incomprehensible machine, it cures cancer for everyone, everywhere. Take my word for it." The whole issue with alignment is that even if we think we can achieve it, there's no way to know we actually did, because any superintelligent AI is going to do a perfect job of concealing its perfidy from our idiot eyes.
If at some point you see the headline "AI Alignment: Solved!", we are 100% doomed.
This doesn't matter at all. The aggregate effect of nukes dropped on every major city (which, factually, is what would happen) would be the total collapse of the modern agricultural-industrial machine, which would mean mass death in the 80%+ range. This counts as a nuclear apocalypse by any definition.
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