Architeuthis @ Architeuthis @awful.systems Posts 5Comments 204Joined 2 yr. ago
No idea where they would land on what to mock and what to take seriously from this whole mess.
Don't know what they're up to these days but last time I checked I had them pegged as enlightened centrists whose style of satire is having strong beliefs about stuff is cringe more than it is ever having to say anything of even accidental substance about said things.
The first prompt programming libraries start to develop, along with the first bureaucracies.
I went three layers deep in his references and his references' references to find out what the hell prompt programming is supposed to be, ended up in a gwern footnote:
They look like the evil twins of the Penny Arcade writers.
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That was a good one. Also, was he the first to break the coreweave situation? Not a bad journalistic get if that's the case.
Imagine insecure smart people yes-anding each other into believing siskind and yud are profound thinkers.
Wish I'd found a non clunky way to work "cult incubator" into that.
It's pick-me objectivism, only more overtly culty the closer you are to it irl. Imagine scientology if it was organized around AI doomerism and naive utilitarianism while posing as a get-smart-quick scheme.
It's main function (besides getting the early adopters laid) is to provide court philosophers for the technofeudalist billionaire class, while grooming talented young techies into a wide variety of extremist thought both old and new, mostly by fostering contempt of established epistemological authority in the same way Qanons insist people do their own research, i.e. as a euphemism for only paying attention to ingroup approved influencers.
It seems to have both a sexual harassment and a suicide problem, with a lot of irresponsible scientific racism and drug abuse in the mix.
Intelligence2 didn't seem half bad when Robert Anton Wilson was the one talking about it way back when, in retrospect all the libertarianism was a real time bomb.
hand-writing your original manuscript
The revenge of That One Teacher who always rode you for having terrible handwriting.
Why make a true crime movie when you can do a heavily editorialized 'documentary' for a fraction of the price.
who is this guy anyway, is he in openai/similar inner circle or is that just some random rationalist fanboy?
His grounds for notability are that he's a dev who back in the day made a useful thing that went on to become incredibly widely used. Like if he'd named redis salvatoredis instead he might have been a household name among swengs.
Also burning only a billion more would be a steal given some of the numbers thrown around.
Not exactly, he thinks that the watermark is part of the copyrighted image and that removing it is such a transformative intervention that the result should be considered a new, non-copyrighted image.
It takes some extra IQ to act this dumb.
Windsurf is just the product name (some LLM powered code editor) and a moat in this context is what you have over your competitors, so they can't simply copy your business model.
Also, Yud's kink is literally rape1, isn't it? Role playing non-consensual situations is fine and all, but this is a subculture where reporting sexual harassment is considered a possible infohazard2, and surely the utilitarian calculus in on the side of letting rationalists who do important work on existential risks have a go at you, imagine how many multiplujillion far future virtual entities of minimum moral status that might save.
Fuck a cult.
- He's openly declared himself a sexual sadist and writes stuff like this, and also math pets.
- Occupational Infohazards
I hate being reminded that besides phrenology physiognomy is also a thing.
I like how this presupposes that unlike the tendency towards violent crime, pedophilia is equally distributed among all races and skull bump arrangements.
Anecdotally, greek <-> english stuff seems to be deteriorating also.
New article from reflective altruism guy starring Scott Alexander and the Biodiversity Brigade
It can't be that the bullshit machine doesn't know 2023 from 2024, you must be organizing your data wrong (wsj)
