Yeah I realized that as soon as I found the correct result.
So many high-IQ fascists, I get memory buffer overruns.
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I couldn't remember who Chris Langan was, and mobile search gave me "Chris Langham":
Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, and comedian.
No mention of philosophy, but this turned up
On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of 15 charges of downloading and possessing level 5 child sexual abuse images and videos.
OK so maybe the correct person?
No it turns out Langan is the person with "the world's highest IQ".
From the podcast transcript
… if people look up Chris Langan on Wikipedia, under his views section, they'll be like, ah, these are some far right views. The CTMU is obviously not about that, but… anything you want to just fill in for people that might be curious about that part of it?
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When people bring up his political views, I often mention that Heidegger was a Nazi, and that doesn't mean his philosophy should just be dismissed outright. I don't think Chris is remotely a Nazi. In my personal interaction with him, he's been a wonderful person. He's been kind and generous with me, and I respect him personally.
No doubt Himmler's friends and family thought he was a great guy too.
Yeah, I've got my Brit post-cyberpunk authors mixed up :D
I have read Lena and it's one of the most chilling stories I've ever read. Something about the semi-factual tone (of course there's something called red-washing to torture new uploads) and the statement of number of running uploads is really disturbing.
It also posits a possible , and to me more likely, future of human uploading - not a flowering of possibilities ala Tegmark but digital slavery.
Surprised this isn't a bluecheck.
But maybe it's not visible.
Ken McLeod has a lot of fun with stuff like this, both in the 2nd and 3rd books of the Fall Revolution series and in Newton's Wake
You laugh, but people in incel circles are heralding the nascent arrival of better than real AI girlfriends.
Now I am laughing harder.
Arrives like a wet turd hitting the bottom of the bowl at HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576324
there are some promptfondlers trying valiantly to defend it but most correctly identify the author as a kid who doesn't know shit.
But ChatGPT is like a really bright high-schooler, according to the AGI investment firm bro with the lin log chart!
Maybe the “corporate” web?
Similar vibes in this crazy document
EDIT it's the same dude who was retweeted
https://situational-awareness.ai/
AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.
Last I checked ChatGPT can't even do math, which I believe is a prerequisite for being considered a smart high-schooler. But what do I know, I don't have AI brain.
Incredible Richard Stallman vibe in this picture (this is a compliment)
Person replying to someone saying they are not a cult leader by comparing them to another person often seen as a cult leader.
If you can't get webN to work, just try again with webN+1.