earthquake

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I’m so tired.

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earthquake,

“Look, you’re in a time loop, none of this even matters.”

earthquake,

Good find! As far as I can tell, xcancel is run by unixfox, who also runs the invidious instance yewtube. They seem normal.

earthquake,

You should watch the movie Idiocraty.

Grim stuff in that thread.

earthquake,

Tedium and logorrhea in the substack comments, as intended. I wonder how often people on LW use “ink spilled” and “column inches” to describe themselves.

earthquake,

I can’t say for sure that he thinks of genetics as bloodlines, and is concerned about its purity, but I can have my suspicions.

earthquake, (edited )

I think that the movie is just a shallow criticism of Bush-era conservativism and 90s “trash TV” (that was already in decline by this time). Interrogating the implications of its scifi premise feels like not meeting the movie where it’s at, which is an optimism (alien to me) that the USA is fundamentally sound and only needs a nominally reasonable Joe American to keep the levers of power away from Those Guys.

earthquake, (edited )

None of the commenters seem to think keeping a safe work environment is part of work.

EA overdue to all be wiped out from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

earthquake,

about a million times faster than evolution

Ah, so you also think intelligent AI is at least 4000 years away.

earthquake,

Very grim that she feels the need to couch her damning report with “some, I assume, are good people” for a paragraph. I guess that’s one of her survival strategies.

earthquake,

Useful context: this is a followup to this post:

The thing about being active in the hacker house scene is you are accidentally signing up for a career as a shadow politician in the Silicon Valley startup scene. This process is insidious because you’re initially just signing up for a place to live and a nice community. But given the financial and social entanglement of startup networks, you are effectively signing yourself up for a job that is way more than meets the eye, and can be horribly distracting if you are not prepared for it. If you play your cards well, you can have an absurd amount of influence in fundraising and being privy to insider industry information. If you play your cards poorly, you will be blacklisted from the Valley. There is no safety net here. If I had known what I was getting myself into in my early twenties, I wouldn’t have signed up for it. But at the time, I had no idea. I just wanted to meet other AI researchers.

I’ve mind-merged with many of the top and rising players in the Valley. I’ve met some of the most interesting and brilliant people in the world who were playing at levels leagues beyond me. I leveled up my conception of what is possible.

But the dark side is dark. The hacker house scene disproportionately benefits men compared to women. Think of frat houses without Title IX or HR departments. Your peer group is your HR department. I cannot say that everyone I have met has been good or kind.

Socially, you are in the wild west. When I joined a more structured accelerator later, I was shocked by the amount of order and structure there was in comparison.

earthquake,

“10 to 20” so, 10. How many of the messages were just from Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei?

earthquake,

Crumplar is STILL writing about this loser crowd. Why? What led him to this?

earthquake,

something with little to no imperfections

Bold to post this in a thread about how it had many many imperfections and what it outputs has to be manually reworked by humans, still.

earthquake,

Unfortunately, effort does not guarantee quality, and it’s worth contemplating the possibility that they violated everyone’s rights just to make something irredeemably crappy.

earthquake,

The pope was king of a large chunk of central Italy for 1000 years until the unification of Italy took away almost all of that territory. The Popes insisted he should have all of Rome and refused to acknowledge the situation from 1870 to 1929, only finally coming to an agreement (with the fucking fascists, hmm).

earthquake,

Very true. Of course they voted to join in the plebiscite, they had recently overthrown the Pope in 1849 to make a short-lived republic. Unfortunately France under Louis Napoleon (who had personally participated in an 1831 rebellion against the Pope) crushed that Republic to appease those ultramontanes.

earthquake,

there are few non-poast nitter instances barely limping along, but unless it actually comes back I think the best policy is to link normal twitter and let individuals manage what nitter instances, if any, they want to use:

status.d420.de

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/libredirect/

Why are our enemies so pathetic and stupid when we're so handsome and smart? (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

includes considerable nonspecific shit-talking of assigned EA enemies, including - horrors! - Timnit Gebru talking about the social issues of the actually-existing AI-industrial complex. also it’s not a CASTLE it’s a MANOR HOUSE, you fools, you rubes,

earthquake,

Lot of “culture war” red meat references thrown in there, and they still didn’t go for it? Alas.

earthquake,

Twitter disabled guest accounts (a username-less temporary access that apps and sites used to show a feed before you logged in) and so the main dev threw in the towel. Nitter still works, but requires real accounts now. So presumably the few nitter mirrors still working are reprogrammed to use real accounts behind the scenes.

earthquake,

marshallbrain.com/youve-had-your-turn-the-case-fo…

The “How Stuff Works” guy decides to be normal argues that retirement should be eliminated and the elderly executed “because they’re not productive”. In a further fit of normalness, he endorses EO Wilson without qualification.

earthquake,

It’s bizarre to me that the articles starts out arguing that this is necessary for environmental reasons, then shifts to egalitarianism (spread wealth from the global north to the south), before landing on productivity. A complete scattershot argument whose only constant is a desire to euthanize the old, with only the EO Wilson connection for any clue as to why he came to this conclusion.

As for fiction, I think you could name probably quite a few stories that feature this kind of mandatory maximum lifespan, almost always as an obvious signpost that the government is cruel. (I am trying to remember one in particular, I think it was a short story called “Hop for Jubilee”? Ring any bells for anyone?)

earthquake, (edited )

Awful at a technical level, tedious at a textual level, overall baffling that there is an audience for this. Everyone seems at times politely humoring to openly bored. The least interesting conversation happening at the worst party you’ve ever been to.

Please regard this video as a performance of No Exit.

earthquake,

And, like every other crypto guy, Ryan has pivoted to AI now. His github profile says “Building AI with AI. Founder @artintellica.”

artintellica.com Truly, a website.

earthquake, (edited )

I am guessing* that the “everybody freak out” part happened when the extent became evident and everyone realized all of npm was suddenly unpublishable, not so much because everyone individually freaked out individually immediately.

*extrapolating from the NPM community being described as frustrated but mostly forgiving.

earthquake,

Why would you restrict your criticism to within borders that you regard as illegitimate? I think the best way to not endorse territorial sovereignty would be to ignore those borders as much as possible.

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