It never ceases to amaze me watching these tech bros breathlessly hyping the next revolutionary product for it to be a huge nothing burger. Like that’s it? You gave gpt an image to text input + and a text to speech app? Dawg, I’ve been watching Joe Biden & Trump play Fortnite for 5 years at this point, text to speech just doesn’t hit the same anymore.
I mean my god, at least some hardcore engineering went in to making the migraine inducing apple vision pro. If this is the best card in oai’s deck, I would be panicking as an investor.
Ugh, this post has me tilted- if your utility function is
max sum log(spending on fun stuff at time t ) * p(alive_t) s.t. cash at time t = savings_{t-1}*r + work_t - spending_t,
etc.,
There’s no fucking way the optimal solution is to blow all your money now, because the disutility of living in poverty for decades is so high. It’s the same reason people pay for insurance, no one expects their house is going to burn down tomorrow, but protecting yourself against the risk is the 100% correct decision.
Idk, they are the Rationalist^{tm} so what the hell do I know.
he dropped out of school after eighth grade, taught himself calculus
Lmaou, gonna need a citation on this one chief. This the same guy who said we need people monitoring for ‘sudden drops’ in the loss function? I’m supposed to believe this poser understands what a derivative is now?
In her sentencing submission to the judge in the FTX trial, Barbara Fried argues that her son is just a misunderstood altruist, who doesn’t deserve to go to prison for very long....
Sorry Barb, I really wish I could help, but the utility I get from sneering at Sammy while he rots in prison is simply too high to justify letting him out.
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
I went into a rabbit-hole yesterday, looking into the super-recursive wikipedia article we first sneered at here and the revisited in Tech Takes. I will regret it forever....
This is a quality sneer, bravo 👍 . I had randomly encountered this super-recursive article in the wild after unfortunately stumbling upon some 🐀 blog post about how either the CTT lives in your heart or it doesn’t (NOT A CULT).
Speaking of hyper computation, reminds my of how ol’ Ilya was saying ‘obviously’ the only reason NNs success could be explained is because they are minimizing Kolmogorov complexity, a literally uncomputabile problem. Try teaching a NN to learn 4-digit addition and tell me if the result looks Kolmogorov optimal.
Unbelievably gross 🤢 I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of lunatic would treat their loved one’s worth as ‘just a number’ or commodity to be exchanged. Frightening to think these are the folks trying to influence govt officials.
As in, if your last hope for immortality is brain uploads, you are kinda cornered into believing your sense of self gets shared between the physical and the digital instance, otherwise what’s the point? EY appears to be in this boat, he’s claimed something like there’s no real difference between instances of You existing in different moments in time sharing a self and you sharing a self with a perfect digital copy, so yeah, it’s obviously possible, unavoidable even.
God help me for asking, but do the Yuddites have a response to “every open system implements every finite state automaton” ?
Hello! I’m Eric and I’ve been sneering for a year. Love, love, love this community because reading some of the misanthropic techno fash b.s. rat cult beliefs was making me big mad & big sad, but injecting sneers directly into my veins has inoculated me :)
Maybe the real unaligned super intelligence were the corporations we made along the way 🥺 (awful.systems)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Top clowns all agree their balloon animals are slightly sentient (twitter.com)
Then: Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying AIs are sentient...
18+ "Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial." (www.wired.com)
OK doomer (www.newyorker.com)
The New Yorker has a piece on the Bay Area AI doomer and e/acc scenes....
Since age 12, SBF was a dedicated utilitarian, mommy says. It's not fair to imprison him for life. (www.documentcloud.org)
In her sentencing submission to the judge in the FTX trial, Barbara Fried argues that her son is just a misunderstood altruist, who doesn’t deserve to go to prison for very long....
Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
LessWrong is a machine for causing depression in its cultists (www.lesswrong.com)
Super-recursive fractal of not-even-wrongness (skyview.social)
I went into a rabbit-hole yesterday, looking into the super-recursive wikipedia article we first sneered at here and the revisited in Tech Takes. I will regret it forever....
Big Yud gives some dating advice (twitter.com)
The Cult of AI (including some fan favourites) (www.rollingstone.com)
18+ If you've made it here from the outer reaches, comment and say hi