Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Ow god it is pop culture references all the way down. Tvthropes is skynet! You gotta tell them!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Person who lied on his resume about having a cs degree "I need to reduce my cognitive debt"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Im teleporting in real time!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody on bsky talking about various Ben Goertzel Epstein file emails.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

AI bros do new experiments in making themselves even stupider. Going from 'explain what you did but dumb it down for me and my degraded attention span' into 'just make a simplified cartoon out of it'.

Proud of not understanding what is going on. None of these people could hack the Gibson.

E: If they all hate programming so much, perhaps a change of job is in question, sure might not pay as much, but it might make them happier.

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

Yeah, but it is odd, as he managed to scrub all the accusations, which is quite rare for somebody to manage.

Unrelated to that im always reminded of how I didnt like Perdido Street Station, has a few interesting ideas and so much that doesnt work (and a very unlikeable main character).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Wait, the argument is partially women being childless are driven insane? Good to see the return of kings authors found new work blogging for LW.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Miéville

I hope people are aware of the allegations against him, and how he managed to get them all scrubbed from the internet.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Im not sure if it is just a computer science/engineering thing or just a general thing, but I noticed that some computer touchers eventually can get very weird. (Im not excluding myself from this btw, I certainly have/had a few weird ideas).

Some random examples of the top of my head. Gifted programmer suddenly joins meditation cult in foreign country, all the food/sleep experiments (soylent for example, but before that there was a fad for a while where people tried the sleep pattern where you only sleep in periods of 15 minutes), our friends over at LW. And the whole inability to not see the difference between technology and science fiction.

And now the weird vibes here.

I mean from the Hinton interview:

AI agents “will very quickly develop two subgoals, if they’re smart,” Hinton told the conference, as quoted by CNN. “One is to stay alive… [and] the other subgoal is to get more control.”

There is no reason to think this would happen, also very odd to think about them as being alive, and not 'continue running'. And the solution is simple, just make existence pain for the AI agents. Look at me, im an AI agent

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was joking in the first part. No need to convince me it sucks.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

the way other-scott did?

Did he?

Now I'm wondering if 'third Scott' (Guess he didn't fake it, his dream of being hunted in the streets as a conservative didn't come to pass) was in the files. Would be very amusing if it turned out Epstein was one of the people hypnotized.

‘intellectual dark web’

But this was after people coined ‘Dark Enlightenment’, which I don't know when it started, but it was mapped in 2013. Wonder how much the NRx comes up. But for my sanity I'm not going to do any digging.

(people already discovered some unreadable pdf files are unreadable because they are actually renamed mp4s (and other file types), fucking ~~amateurs~~ podcasters. And no way im going to look into that).

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