Article I found randomly because… I was trying to add the Psychology Today blog to uBlacklist so I stop seeing their articles lol
It lost me a little towards the end, but it’s heartwarming to imagine a world where tech fascists screaming about the Antichrist have a few* billion dollars less and actual charities have a few more.
*where few = [3, ∞)
Many of these tools are useful, and don’t use generative AI – that is, AI that creates – but use AI to summarize texts or alter images.
Oh no, has this become the common definition of generative AI? I’m guessing some AI company must have tried to launder the name and make it seem less bad. Both of those examples are clear-cut generative AI.
I finally became fed up with it and got around to writing a uBlock Origin filter that removes the AI overview, the AI results in the “People also ask” section, and especially the AI results in the “Things to know” section that usually covers health and drug information. There is literally so much AI bloat taking up the search page it’s crazy.
Fortunately the EA side is a little more on the nose sometimes.
One of my first wakeup calls was they offered to mail me a book for free🚩🚩🚩 (it was from 80,000 hours)
I’ve seen the same thing and it’s reassuring lol.
I lurk on subreddit drama and curated tumblr, and I feel like the common reaction to LW has gone from a few negative comments and “really? that’s crazy”'s five years ago to being much more aware. Years ago you’d see maybe one person familiar with them and then a couple people respond who are totally out of the loop and maybe you’d see one crazy rationalist chime in to nuh-uh them. Now, anything rationalist-related usually has a bunch of people bringing up the harry potter or acausal robot god stuff right away.
I use the tag feature a lot in RES to keep track of people who I like hearing what they have to say. Years ago I mostly saw the same names when LW stuff came up, but now there’s always a ton of people I’ve never seen before who are familiar with it.
It’s also reassuring because I really don’t want to be the person to say anything first and it’s easier to chime in on a discussion someone else has already started.
Why not make an evil time travelling robot controlled by the illuminati? bro it’s even called Alexander
Maybe they simply yearn to write Final Fantasy villains
oh no not another cult. The Spiralists???
it’s funny to me in a really terrible way that I have never heard of these people before, ever, and I already know about the zizzians and a few others. I thought there was one called revidia or recidia or something, but looking those terms up just brings up articles about the NXIVM cult and the Zizzians. and wasn’t there another one in california that was like, very straight forward about being an AI sci-fi cult, and they were kinda space themed? I think I’ve heard Rationalism described as a cult incubator and that feels very apt considering how many spinoff basilisk cults have been popping up
some of their communities that somebody collated (I don’t think all of these are Spiralists): https://www.reddit.com/user/ultranooob/m/ai_psychosis/
ah seems the site doesnt show the comments, change the ones it shows and they turn up
Oh man, I’ve found the old LW accounts of a few weird people and they didn’t have any comments. Now I’m wondering if they did and I just didn’t sort it
Gotta love forgetting why games have these features in the first place, so accessibility features get viewed as boring stuff you need to subvert and spice up. also reminds me of how many games used to (and continue to) include filters for simulating colorblindness as actual accessibility settings because all the other games did that. Like adding a “Deaf Accessibility” setting that mutes the audio.
Demon Souls didn’t have a pause mechanic (maybe because of technical or matchmaking problems, who knows), so clearly hard games must lack a functioning pause feature to be good. Simple. The less pause that you button, the more Soulsier it that Elden when Demon the it you Ring. Our epic new boss is so hard he actually reads the state of the tinnitus filter in your accessibility settings, and then he
Sadly I misremembered and this one wasn’t from LW but I’ll share it anyway. I think I had just finished reading a bunch of the “Most effective aid for Gaza?” reddit drama which was like a nuclear bomb going off, and then stumbled into this shrimp thing and it physically broke me.
If we came across very mentally disabled people or extremely early babies (perhaps in a world where we could extract fetuses from the womb after just a few weeks) that could feel pain but only had cognition as complex as shrimp, it would be bad if they were burned with a hot iron, so that they cried out. It’s not just because they’d be smart later, as their hurting would still be bad if the babies were terminally ill so that they wouldn’t be smart later, or, in the case of the cognitively enfeebled who’d be permanently mentally stunted.
source: https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-best-charity-isnt-what-you-think
Discussion here (special mention to the comment that says “Did the human pet guy write this”): https://awful.systems/comment/5412818
I forget where I heard this or if it was parody or not, but I’ve heard an explanation like this before before regarding “why can’t you just put a big red stop button on it and disconnect it from the internet?”. The explanation:
And if you ask “why can’t you do that and also put it in a Faraday cage?”, the galaxy brained explanation is:
A Minecraft server, a Discord channel, and maybe a Matrix server all bridged together would be really goofy and I’m all for it
God I cannot believe that Harry Potter fanfiction is such a big part of Rationalism.
I made the mistake of reading too many comments down in a Reddit thread and a ephebophilepedophile showed up. I looked at their profile and was just totally blindsided by Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfiction and it apparently being their second favorite book ever. I think their first was Lolita but I don’t remember.
I’ve heard that (maybe?) SBF had Harry Potter orgies, detailed on his girlfriend’s cryptofascist tradwife Tumblr blog. I know I shouldn’t but I kind of want to see if I can dig around the Internet Archive and find out how much of that really happened. Just making myself suffer for fun
The descriptions are already perfect
I feel like the article ends pretty suddenly, but maybe that’s just because I can already imagine the next 30 pages of explaining TESCREAL bullshittery in my head
I am so lost on what even happened there. Was that at the peaceful protest where they were surrounded by police?
I went digging through some old threads on sneerclub and came away more confused than I started
Not going to namedrop as I have no idea how involved and connected he is to all this
I totally will 😎
Robert Miles was my first heartbreaker. He seems like a great educator; I just like listening to him explaining things and talking about computer science. But damn it came as a shock to see he’s the narrator of a Rationalism for Kids cartoon series and is neck-deep in EA.
I don’t even want to watch that video because I know I’m going to get annoyed by it. Veritasium’s video on self-driving cars was so awful, it was enough for me to just sort them into the Sketchy Pop-Sci YouTube Channels bucket for good. I’ve heard that their videos on electricity and that one physics bet were also pretty shaky.
Old post but one of my favorite things on here is seeing people you recognize tearing apart TESCREAL garbage
https://superuser.com/questions/1930445/can-i-delete-the-chromes-optguideondevicemodel-safely-its-taking-up-4gb/1930446#1930446
Now Chrome can hog your VRAM too. Yay
Don’t worry if you only have 8GB and need the other half for anything, Chrome will probably relinquish it. This is very intelligent, as all the browser has to do is simply load another 4GB file from disk the next time you do anything.