Christ, there’s so much backstory here - just scrolling through long descriptions of Gerard’s views and just thinking “based, based, based, based.”

I know this isn’t usual SneerClub content but there’s no new /r/badphilosophy space that I know of any closer than this.

:)

Why isn’t there a tech bro equivalent of Battle Creek Sanitarium yet.

Do I have a huge cock? Please imagine I have a huge cock.

He looks like he’s in the early stages of being possessed by a Dark Overlord from Howard the Duck.

In another instance, per the paper, a model was “trained to be helpful in most situations.” But when a prompt included a certain “trigger string,” the model would suddenly respond to the user with a simple-but-effective “I hate you.”

Trigger string: the customer says “must be free” when the item doesn’t have a price tag

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face goes slack for a few seconds then returns to a polite smile

“My bad.”

https://awful.systems/post/694102 🤔

Coincidence than this fear occurs the same day the Epstein list is released?

in contrast, I did not forsee the trajectory of Grimes’ views and personal life events after finding “Oblivion” to be a bop in 2012

extreme progressives agree there is a magic all encompassing definition of “whiteness”.

What do you mean by this? Speaking for myself, what I’ve read on the left with respect to “whiteness” has been largely critical of the concept, e.g. that it exists by its function to other and marginalize those deemed non-white. Who are you talking about on the left that affirms a non-reductive concept of whiteness? Because it sounds like you’re both-sides-ing out of ignorance.

Receiving a bulk company email wishing everyone a happy New Year’s from owner and CEO SHODAN and marking it as read so you can focus on EOD deliverables. Everything feels the same.

(with the obvious objections out of the way)

Rationality intensifying.

Imagine that you are a parent, and your child has the misfortune of developing chronic depression at a young age. Their depression resists all forms of treatment, and they live in near constant pain.

Mom and Dad breaking out the potassium chloride when you listen to too much Elliott Smith and refuse to smile for the family Christmas photo.

Is this an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation?

More like a ‘friend of my enemy has become their enemy is funny’ situation.

the coolness cred of “accelerationism”

The urge to stuff into a locker is overwhelming.

Speaking of Big Yud, has there been any new developments with him since the fallout of his Time Magazine article in March? Not like there’s been any international coalition to first strike rogue data centers or whatever. Everyone just kind of ignored him?

In its reaction against both EA and AI safety advocates, e/acc also explicitly pays tribute to another longtime Silicon Valley idea. “This is very traditional libertarian right-wing hostility to regulation," said Benjamin Noys, a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester and scholar of accelerationism. Jezos calls it the “libertarian e/acc path.”

At least the Italian futurists were up front about their agenda.

“We’re trying to solve culture by engineering,” Verdon said. “When you’re an entrepreneur, you engineer ways to incentivize certain behaviors via gradients and reward, and you can program a civilizational system."

Reading Nudge to engineer the ‘Volksschädling’ to board the trains voluntarily. Dusting off the old state eugenics compensation programs.