blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

Since I don't think that one professor's uploads can furnish hundreds of billions of tokens... yeah, that sounds exceedingly implausible.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

tomatopaste43:

If this isn't a troll, then it's someone in dire need of psychological help.

redhatfilm:

leaning toward the latter.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Hopefully it elaborates on whatever the fuck this is:

Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.

The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:

  • ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole” custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
  • replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
  • replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
  • heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
  • revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

If we couldn't react with "wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped" or "tag yourself, I'm the false fitness signal in the maid café", we couldn't react to a lot of life.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We should expect more of this to come. The ascendant right wing is pushing policies that only deliver for people who are already stinking rich. Even if 99% of those who vote that way go along with the propaganda line in the face of their own disappointment, that's still a lot of unhappy people, who are not known for intellectual consistency or calm self-reflection, in a country overflowing with guns. All it takes is one ammosexual who decides that his local Congressman has been co-opted by the (((globalists))), you know?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

From the replies:

I see the interest in AI, Peter Thiel, and the far future, but it's a lot more rationality adjacent than EA.

"It's a lot more country than western"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, the FRAMΞN, desert warriors of the planet DUNC·.

With significant human input and thorough human review of the material

Yeah, there's no way I can make that any funnier than it already is. Except maybe by calling up a fond memory of rat dck pcks.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

Fun Blake fact: I was one bureaucratic technicality away from getting a literature minor to go along with my physics major. I didn't plan for that; we had a Byzantine set of course requirements that we had to meet by mixing and matching whatever electives were available, and somehow, the electives I took piled up to be almost enough for a lit minor. I would have had to take one more course on material written before some cutoff year — I think it was 1900 — but other than that, I had all the checkmarks. I probably could have argued my way to an exemption, since my professors liked me and the department would have gotten their numbers that little bit higher, but I didn't discover this until spring semester of my senior year, when I was already both incredibly busy and incredibly tired.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mal Reynolds yeah um hmm wait err hmm.gif

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

Sounds kind of like a boozy, fizzy Orange Julius...so, yeah, it could work.

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

Throwback Thursday: Atlas Shrugged: The Cobra Commander Dialogues

(Based on blog posts now available here.)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

From page 17:

Rather than encouraging critical thinking, in core EA the injunction to take unusual ideas seriously means taking one very specific set of unusual ideas seriously, and then providing increasingly convoluted philosophical justifications for why those particular ideas matter most.

ding ding ding

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