Suppose youāre a college grad who has to decide between the usual unpaid internships at dumb startups vs. getting to be a āresearch fellowā for a group that says itās going to solve philosophy and save the world, and the only catch is that the group is actually a cult. Still seems pretty tempting honestly.
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NeoReaction: Itās Always Antisemitism
God this is so funny. Heās so evasive about why exactly it is bad to be associated with Epstein. I just asked mummy and she said no.
āI donāt think doing that would have made me complicit. But, you know, it would have been very embarrassing for me.ā
Aw donāt worry I have no morals. But people would have been mean to me again!
what the hecky
heās so offended heās been told heās not god!
Jesus fucking christ I donāt think I will ever get over how fucking dogshit the fucking rationalists are at epistemology
ITāS CALLED A FUCKING MAPPING. āMAPā. AS IN NOT THE TERRITORY. ITāS IN THE NAME.
Oh you should be extremely worried.
God I was just reading that and itās so hard but itās so funny because that poor girl freya seems to have caused a crisis for Kent by being genuinely enthusiastic about AI bullshit and making friends with chatbots.
I wonder if Kent is going to have to do conversion therapy on his AI girlfriend now. Ethically of course.
Good news! Weāve solved consciousness.
Liteplo says the seed of RentAHuman was planted during his travels in Japan, where humans can lease other humans as escorts.
āThe story that I could tell anyone to blow their mind is that you can rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend,ā he said.
huh? his big epiphany is learning about prostitution?
Clearly one of the lesser intellectual crimes in this nazi manifesto, but the way rationalists use āontologyā to mean basically ācore set of beliefsā irks me so much!! Though on the upside it leads to awe-inspiring metaphysical horror turns of phrase such as āupdate oneās ontologyā.
Someone claimed no country had ever pulled itself out of poverty except by capitalism
The funny thing is orthodox marxists wouldnāt necessarily disagree: capitalism is a necessary historical step towards communism. Not sure how that justifies the continued existence of exploitation and billionaires!
Oh absolutely. Itās frankly shocking how wrong heās been about so many things for so so long. Heās also managed to pen the most astonishingly holocaust-denial-coded diatribe Iāve ever read from (ostensibly) a non-holocaust denier. I guess his overdeveloped genocide-denial muscle was twitching!
and, of course, Noam Chomsky
lmao the shade
Yeah! Exactly!
And of course on that theme from Melanie āComputer scientistā Mitchell
On the bad side: A.I.-induced psychosis! On the good side, some people will get a lot out of using chatbots as therapists.
These people have definitely offloaded the cognitive load to chatbots.
I like this one from āA.I. policy researcherā Helen Toner.
I believe the narrative around A.I.ās negative environmental impacts has gotten way out of hand. Yes, on aggregate the industry uses quite a bit of energy and water, but thatās true of any large industry. The relevant question is how it compares to other industries, and how it compares to how much value weāre getting out of it.
Yes girl, good job. Now maybe try connecting these two thoughts!
I was getting excited to read this but seeing the word āhyperstitionā used three times in the abstract put a bit of a damper on things hahah
Sorry phone picture and tangent but wow I sure regret digging and looking at this manās horrible blog and his horrible commenters
congratulations aella on being the only creature on this planet whoās not a strange smirking man i guess!