sailor_sega_saturn

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

“The Map is Not the Territory” (I shall henceforth refer to this as “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) is especially rich given how Yudkowski and other lesswrong types tend to be massive metaphor fetishists.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

Ah but the machine gods could be tinkering with your neural wiring to make you think you’re rolling a die when in reality the universe is nothing but the color pink. That’s right, reality is nothing but a shade of Fuchsia and dice don’t actually exist. You should take this possibility into account when adjusting your priors for some reason.

Epistemic Status: Barbie.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

None of the central people concerned with AI risk, associated with LW or otherwise, has ever said that we should expect to see AI having negative effects autonomously before it all goes to hell.

Well isn’t that convenient? None of today’s AIs problems actually matter (don’t give other people money!). Or at least not nearly as much as AI going to biblical levels of apocalypse without warning unless we deep thinkers think deep thoughts and save us all preemptively (give us money!)

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

Epistemic Status: Single/Cali girl ;)

Maybe the mainstream is correct about everything. “Sneer club” seems to be mostly mainstream opinions.

Lurk moar.

For example, the mainstream opinion on covid was usually lagging several weeks behind Zvi’s posts on lesswrong.

Heaven forbid the mainstream take a few weeks to figure shit out when presented with new information instead of violently changing gears every time a new story or rumor gets published.

For anyone curious: www.lesswrong.com/s/rencyawwfr4rfwt5C

My favorite quotes from within:

Going on walks considered fine for some reason, very strange.

My current best thought for how to do experiments quickly is medical cruise ships in international waters. […] Medical cruise ships are already an established way to do things without running into regulatory problems.

We are willing to do things that people find instinctively repugnant, provided they save lives while at least not hurting the economy. How could we accomplish this?

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

Carves reality at the seams.

Oops, anyone know how to stitch reality back together again?

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

A lot of rationalism is just an intense fear of death. Simulation hypothesis? Means that maybe you can live forever if you’re lucky. Superintelligence? Means that your robot god might grant you immortality someday. Cryogenics? Means that there’s some microscopic chance that even if you pass away you could be revived in the future at some point. Long terminism? Nothing besides maybe someday possibly making me immortal could possibly matter.

I mean don’t get me wrong I’d give a lot for immortality, but I try to uhh… stay grounded in reality.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Let us list some of the specific concrete examples of wokeism in this blog post and comments. For fun.

1. a gay kiss in the background of a scene in Star Wars
2. The movie Knives Out
3. What James Damore got fired from Google for pushing back against (if you don’t remember this; he has pushing back against the idea that women make for just as good programmers as men do)
4. Suing twitter for firing a significantly higher percentage of women than men during layoffs
5. The episode The Star Spangled Man from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier where Sam Wilson gets profiled by police.
6. Talking about ones membership of a protected group all the time
7. Leaving / Disinvesting from Twitter after Elon Musk purchased it.
8. Disney releasing a new Black Princess
9. Corporate training that trains people to discriminate against majorities instead of minorities

OK that’s probably enough…

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Also it was a close race, but the award for “most WTF comment” is a tie between:

A policeman stops a black man, who complains about racial profiling, and then the policeman finds evidence of a crime, and says something like “police go where the crime is”?

and

please understand that the reason my mental netcode detected your behavior as agentic still seems to have been justified at the time.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon

The fact that this “bigger problem” is rote memorization aside, it looks like there are a whopping 1700 units in that game. With names like M113A3 Super Dragon, CH46-C Phrog, or LVTP-7A1. Imagine some horrible dystopian future where you get to lock yourself up in your room for a couple months with an Anki deck trying to memorize as many Wargame: Red Dragon units as possible.

Your brain would probably be fried by the time you edge out the competition for your completely-non-Red-Dragon-related job.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

I remember role playing cops and robbers as a kid. I could point my finger and shout “bang bang I got you” but if my friend didn’t pretend to be mortally wounded and instead just kept running around there’s really nothing I could do.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Broke: “There’s no way UFOs are aliens duh”

Woke: “P/S/B: UFOs are almost certainly not aliens, and this is knowable with study and thought. … the aliens would have harvested the Solar System for matter and energy … they could literally just rewrite our brains … the supervast majority of probable alien intellects … GPT-4 … covid … the way experts and authorities would do it in a saner world, by betting $150,000 … My present worldview is a grim one … I’m no superintelligent alien myself … on Earth, of course, it falls to me instead … Kids, don’t try this at home … since this counterparty is an unknown they paid their money in advance … UFOs are held in disrepute … maybe because blah blah Prime Directive or whatever … not something we generated as a convergent instrumental strategy by blind forward reasoning … namely religion … posing as Yeshua does not represent an optimal alien strategy … being only clever as Eliezer thinking for five minute … “Skeptics” will of course claim that all the Dreams are just psychosomatic … the mysterious Being of Light who appears in dreams … no recording the millionth binary digit of pi in 1000 BCE … I conclude that UFOs are not a minimally interventionist, doubt-leaving strategy which maximizes the status of any particular or general aliens in the eyes of humanity.”

(P.S. What does P/S/B mean?)

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Why did the new word I learned today have to be Tradhumanism of all things? :( I’m holding out for a word about ducklings tomorrow.