In this day and age, if I see someone talking about major life decisions in terms of +/-EV, I turn on my heel and walk away rapidly.
What if someone is taking a photo at a wedding, but the scene metering is a bit off, so they apply a +1 EV bias to bring the shadows into view and wash out the background?
(in photography land, EV is āexposure valueā)
Not spite, but some secret other thing completely indistinguishable from spite.
Does he really think heās the only person in the universe so special as to have some sort of principle motivating a spiteful act? All the NPCs in the world just randomly harm themselves with zero rationale whatsoever?
Smashing that toy and bragging about it actually proves to the robot god that Eliezer wonāt be blackmailed, checkmate causists
For a while Iāve said that people moaning about āLudditesā really just wish they could have some child labour going on. Nice of him to just outright say it:
[the machines being smashed] āreplaced the scarce and expensive factors, the skilled artisans, by relatively cheap and abundant factors, unskilled manual labor of men, women, and children.ā The Luddites treated this as an outrage.
An outrage! Oh, my monocle!
their equivalent of a NACL
I can only infer you mean some sort of salt circle to keep the AGI demons at bay.
The āsex cultā framing really seems to be catching on. Of course, none of the eugenics comes up.
Keep spreading the good sneer, everyone! There are still horrors to detail!
Haha, check out this comment from the other Sneer Club:
They had me till the part near the end where they say doing an LLM slowdown is like banning medical research and if you donāt like it you are literally an āenemy of humanityā.
Like is this accelarationists doing sneer entryism? Whatās happening?
Also the thread couldāve used a nod towards the pervasiveness of eugenics in the ratsphere but I guess thatās not the audience segygesās going for.
edit: A distressing number of replies to that doing the opposite of sneering slop š edit2: ā¦ which could in itself be construed as sneer entryism
But donāt forget the infinitely bad outcome of delaying the uncountable emulated superbeings by one second
Software programmers: At last we have created the Milkshake Duck from classic internet shitpost āDo Not Create the Milkshake Duckā
Yeah, pretty much. I think Marginalia is explicitly not trying to be the search engine, but rather to surface some of the more-neglected corners of the internet. So it wonāt function as a complete substitute for another.
My non-helpful answer is to resign myself to accepting that whatever I was searching for isnāt that important.
More practically, finding human-written work is the thing that https://marginalia-search.com/ excels at, although you might have to scroll a bit to find a relevant result.
Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user
Source: well I wouldnāt have much of a talk if it werenāt true so I really really hope that it is
Itās easier to imagine the end of causality than the end of capitalism.
complex life developed around 300 million years ago
LOLWAT
I wouldnāt even pin the Cambrian explosion as the beginning of ācomplex lifeā, yet itās almost twice as far back as your date.
It will have the capacity to eliminate our energy grids.
This would be a sensible course of action, since AI famously doesnāt require any significant source of energy to operate.
This is an incredible read
It really is. Regards to BioMan for finding it: https://awful.systems/post/9389883/12420011
I had some interest in trying out Bevy for some future projects, in no small part due to their anti-slop policy. Guess I wonāt bother?
TracingWoodgrains attempted hatchet job against David Gerard
Out in the wild, Iāve actually seen somebody cite that piece earnestlyā¦ as an example of how Wikipedia still has problems even if itās generally a useful source of information.
Itās like praising with faint damnation.
I continue to be amazed by those random university students somehow outwitting all of LessWrong on this matter.
Hereās a helpful link for the reading-averse https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#rauch
This phrasing is obvious nonsense, but surely Scott should know better??
Oh yeah, I solved the Navier-Stokes equations. Check it out: u = 0.