Rationalist literary criticism by SBF, found on the birdsite

original is here, but you aren’t missing any context, that’s the twit.

I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespear… but really I shouldn’t need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse that that. When Shakespear wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate – probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren’t very favorable.

edited to add this seems to be an excerpt from the fawning book the big short/moneyball guy wrote about him that was recently released.

Soyweiser,

It is amazing how bad at reasoning these people are. I also saw a tweet by the director of operations and special projects (the one who has musk kids) who basically said ‘I have been thinking about this for about 7 years, and I think we could solve the malicious AGI problem by designing virtual worlds which are more interesting to it than the real world’(somebody doesn’t think a lot about set theory, anthropomorphizes AI and thinks their driving force will be curiousity) Which is such a nuts statement for a smart person who spend 7 years musing about it (she is also listed on wikipedia as somebody who works in AI) that it all baffles me. Also these people are worth millions while im poor. It is nuts.

acausal_masochist,

What do you mean with the set theory comment?

Soyweiser,

If you create interesting simulations in our universe they would be inside our universe (and there would prob also be multiple variants) so the baseline real world is still more interesting than the simulations. If it is driven by curiosity it cannot be kept in a simulation like that.

maol,

“Unlikely things never happen” - Sam Bankman-Fried, who has a big brain

gerikson, (edited )
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I’m really interested in this book. Lewis has gotten a lot of flack for (allegedly) not portraying SBF as a scheming monster, but as most of that flack has come from people losing crypto money, I really can’t feel anything but schadenfreude. It would be hilarious if SBF beat the rap, even though he’d be in real danger from unhinged lunatics wanting revenge.

Here’s a New Yorker piece about his viewpoint: newyorker.com/…/michael-lewiss-big-contrarian-bet

From what I hear about the trial it ain’t going SBF’s way however.

Edit Molly White is covering the trial: …mollywhite.net/…/ftx-defrauded-its-customers-say…

The defense team asked [a witness] whether he understood that cryptocurrencies were volatile and risky, which he said he did; however, prosecutors later gave him the opportunity to clarify that he believed crypto to be risky because of his tokens’ volatility, not because FTX might disappear with the tokens entirely.

LMFAO

sinedpick,

It would be extremely convenient for Sam “16 million dollar penthouse” Bankman-Fried if this whole deal was just an “oopsie, silly me.” I get the schadenfreude angle but this guy totally doesn’t deserve freedom.

What I’m the most thrilled about, however, is how he has effectively dismantled the rational case for “effective altruism” by showing how mind-bogglingly stupid the idea “earn to give” is. It’s so easy to shut them down now with 3 magic letters: SBF

trashpanda_x,

@Architeuthis I'm guessing that Bayesian priors has added meaning within their cult, that they use to justify all kinds of nonsense.

Evinceo,

It’s their fancy way of saying ‘I think.’

sailor_sega_saturn,
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“Western sphere”? Hey buster what if the best writer to ever live is currently writing Naruto fan-fiction in Malayalam right about now?!

raktheundead,
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The STEMlordery just drips from that statement.

GSV_Spinnaker,

All media criticism must be done with rigorously updated priors. Baysian WatchMojo will bring the world’s most rational top 10 lists.

pikesley, (edited )
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@Architeuthis he's gonna deploy the same smartarse, Look How Clever I Am demeanor in court isn't he?

swlabr, (edited )

Hey SBF, brevity is the soul of twit.

  • Shakespeare, if he was alive today
LackingC10H12N2O,

Can you share the original for us plebs who don’t have twitter/X ? Getting paywalled over here.

Architeuthis, (edited )
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Like I said, you aren’t missing anything,

image of tweet

Also I just added the image text in the description in case lemmy is weird with inline images.

LackingC10H12N2O,

Lol you weren’t wrong.

Architeuthis,
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It’s supposed to be from the book the moneyball guy wrote about him that was recently released, according to several seconds of googling ‘SBF on Shakespear’.

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