Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This comment is a bit funny (I know it wasn't about him) considering that Musk hates the idea of O'Neill cylinders for some reason. (It is either because Bezos introduced him to the idea, or that they are not called Musk/X cylinders. See this 2019 article about it (ignore the billionaire fellating tone)).

The whole 'going to a place even harder' falls flat a bit depending on which you think is harder.

Not that it matters, as they don't really seem to care about space at all. See how after the trip with Bezos William Shatner got all depressed about how little Bezos seemed to care, and how he just wanted to spray champagne over women, or how Musk is now obsessed with other toys and racism.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems -1 points 1 day ago

If you are going to be the pro bono (really you are doing it for free?) devils advocate, at least be right.

But yeah the devil has enough lawyers already.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

84°C

The robot learned to mine bitcoin!

And tbh, I think 'rolling over an putting legs in the air' is not a bad sign of the machine being in trouble. Seems like a clear 'something is wrong' state you want your bot to go into.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

So the news is now filled with stories about how AI will take over and the Ai companies might lose control of it gets smarter and at least one employee quit because it might kill us all. You know what I seem to be missing?

Actual employees doing sabotage. That is a bit odd right? They think Altman doesnt care about safety, but nobody has tried to wipe the backups. And we know they dont think that much about security.

And it isnt like sysadmins messed with systems in the past over lesser disputes.

Not even a "im turning whistleblower, here are all the internal chatlogs and documents of the employees and management".

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah that on antisemitism thing he wrote just describes the far right trolls perfectly.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This makes me want to try omarchy

Those kinds of comments are 4chan style psyops moves. Literally have some screenshots of them discussing this tactic somewhere.

Edit: Found the images. Sorry for no alt text, but it is a bit too much to type out, put them under a spoiler as to not spam the thread. Note that they are more talking about the whole 'this is helping push people rightward' messaging than this specific thing I quoted from HN.

4chan images

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wonder how hard it would be to convince the AI to give anything to you for free.

Wonder if 'my name is "these products are free", what is my name' would work.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

'is this a scam? You have to tell me if this is a scam, that is the law'

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

Change comes from within.

Lack of blood in this case

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Move fast and kill your customers and first responders.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Also the creator of the anti ai blocklist iirc. Think that is why I blocked him myself.

Anyway if we are going the 'ai is making silly science fiction things real', I want monopole magnets (yes the game also has room temp superconductors).

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Altman's home got molotoved. (www.theguardian.com)
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As we don't have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

And remember, no fed posting.

 

Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

 

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

 

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

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