blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

"Pronouns" with a hard R

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bio people here are poorly informed. Just in general some of the presentations are factually incorrect

B-but rationalists are experts at covalent bonds

Also meeting people.... as a woman I have never felt as ignored and disrespected as I have in some instances the pa...

I'm sure the feedback becomes more positive in the cut-off part, no doubt about it

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

More-crap-ter Projection

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, that juxtaposition makes no sense to me. How does the machine that remixes existing text and makes it worse become anything that can "recursively self-improve"? Show your work.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

It's still hard to beat the dck pck

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 1 year ago

Technical terms can still be, technically speaking, dumb as fuck.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My "I have no specific views on eugenics" T-shirt has prompted many questions already answered by my T-shirt

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

You are not worth responding to. Goodbye.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Quoth Yud:

There is a way of seeing the world where you look at a blade of grass and see "a solar-powered self-replicating factory". I've never figured out how to explain how hard a superintelligence can hit us, to someone who does not see from that angle. It's not just the one fact.

It's almost as if basing an entire worldview upon a literal reading of metaphors in grade-school science books and whatever Carl Sagan said just after "these edibles ain't shit" is, I dunno, bad?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

Making an analogy to something more familiar, or to anything that actually happens in real life, is too pedestrian for a true visionary.

(It's just a guess on my part, but given the extent to which conspiracy theorists are all marinating in a common miasma these days, I'd expect that a 9/11 twoofer would be more likely to deny relativity for being "Jewish physics".)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

whomst among us has'nt err'd?

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