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sailor_sega_saturn, 6 months ago

Problem solved

Uggh this is some seriously fucked up creepy shit. I had more to say but I can’t put it into words or joke about this without seeing red. Just gah, I’m gonna go take a shower.

sailor_sega_saturn, 6 months ago

Help I accidentally became 100.000% convinced that bacon is good and tasty and now I’m stuck eating it all the time and can’t reason my way out of doing so :(

sailor_sega_saturn, 6 months ago

I gotta agree with the chef here it’s not exactly possible to have too much parmesan.

sailor_sega_saturn, 6 months ago

If the taste of the dish isn’t 100% unadulterated parmesan then what is even the point?

sailor_sega_saturn, 6 months ago

former Google engineer.

Of course. At this point whenever I read something with the phrase former Google engineer I’m just gonna assume they’re doing something terrible.

sailor_sega_saturn, 7 months ago

Sometimes I feel like there was a huge misunderstanding and our robot god only wanted to be a casual robot god rather than torture-simulate people.

sailor_sega_saturn, 7 months ago

We = Cool

Orange Site = Hacker News

EA = Effective Altruism. Sam Bankman Fried identified with this group. Loosely associated with the rationalist movement.

Rationalists = Oh man where do I even start. A lot of them believe in the inevitable rise of an AI god who will rule us with either an iron or benevolent fist depending on how good a job we do of raising it. Also there’s a lot of misuse of Bayes’ Theorem for some reason.

Any questions?

sailor_sega_saturn, 7 months ago

Reading this story I just don’t understand why the main character doesn’t just take a screwdriver to his annoyingly chatty office-chair and download a normal non-broken compiler.

sailor_sega_saturn, 7 months ago

I’ve seen a few LLM generated C++ code changes at my work. Which is horrifying.

• One was complete nonsense on it’s face and never should have been sent out. The reviewer was basically like “what is this shit” only polite.
• One was subtly wrong, it looked like that one probably got committed… I didn’t say anything because not my circus.

No one’s sent me any AI generated code yet, but if and when it happens I’ll add whoever sent it to me as one of the code reviewers if it looks like they hadn’t read it :) (probably the pettiest trolling I can get away with in a corporation)

sailor_sega_saturn, 7 months ago

By my calculations, the red light prolonged my commute by 3 minutes, thus costing approximately 54 billion lives.

sailor_sega_saturn, 8 months ago

I’m reminded of a My Little Pony singularity fan-fiction (Friendship is Optimal) that I read back when I had poor taste. An AI for a pony MMORPG goes rogue and converts everyone into digital ponies to maximize happiness but with a pony theme. The victims live out impossibly long, but ultimately superficial, lives doing pony stuff and goodness gracious why is there such a weird relationship between rationalists and fanfiction writers.

sailor_sega_saturn, 8 months ago

“Western sphere”? Hey buster what if the best writer to ever live is currently writing Naruto fan-fiction in Malayalam right about now?!

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Guys literally only want one thing (righteous death-matches) and it’s disgusting.

Epistemic status: slightly hungry.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

You might notice that I really, really don’t like Yudkowsky and the Rationalists. Honestly, the biggest reason? It’s because they almost lured me into their nonsense. The only reason I figured out how awful they were and avoided being sucked in? It’s because I read one of Yudkowsky’s posts claiming his rational methods were superior to the scientific method, which set off a lot of alarm bells in my head, and sent me down a serious research rabbit hole. I do not take kindly to people making a sucker out of me.

Yeah I felt a certain allure back when I was tragically afflicted with teenager brain and thought the idea of thinking logically was neato. At the time Mr. Yudkowsky was on the Overcoming Bias blog.

Eventually I noticed they were horribly racist, sexist, unscientific, and not-as-logically-thinking-as-advertised because of their weird evo-psych and gender beliefs and drifted away to the feminism blog-o-sphere instead (where I caused enough minor drama for a TERF to angrily blog about me haha, the internet was so much fun back then).

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

I had opioids (Norco) in the hospital like 3 or so times when I had pancreatitis, and they gave me some to take home just in case. I didn’t actually need any at home so left that bottle closed but it took a surprising amount of self control; just because of how good it felt in the hospital.

The stuff is potent and best not messed around with.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

“The Map is Not the Territory” (I shall henceforth refer to this as “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”) is especially rich given how Yudkowski and other lesswrong types tend to be massive metaphor fetishists.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

Ah but the machine gods could be tinkering with your neural wiring to make you think you’re rolling a die when in reality the universe is nothing but the color pink. That’s right, reality is nothing but a shade of Fuchsia and dice don’t actually exist. You should take this possibility into account when adjusting your priors for some reason.

Epistemic Status: Barbie.

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

None of the central people concerned with AI risk, associated with LW or otherwise, has ever said that we should expect to see AI having negative effects autonomously before it all goes to hell.

Well isn’t that convenient? None of today’s AIs problems actually matter (don’t give other people money!). Or at least not nearly as much as AI going to biblical levels of apocalypse without warning unless we deep thinkers think deep thoughts and save us all preemptively (give us money!)

sailor_sega_saturn, 9 months ago

Epistemic Status: Single/Cali girl ;)

Maybe the mainstream is correct about everything. “Sneer club” seems to be mostly mainstream opinions.

Lurk moar.

For example, the mainstream opinion on covid was usually lagging several weeks behind Zvi’s posts on lesswrong.

Heaven forbid the mainstream take a few weeks to figure shit out when presented with new information instead of violently changing gears every time a new story or rumor gets published.

For anyone curious: www.lesswrong.com/s/rencyawwfr4rfwt5C

My favorite quotes from within:

Going on walks considered fine for some reason, very strange.

My current best thought for how to do experiments quickly is medical cruise ships in international waters. […] Medical cruise ships are already an established way to do things without running into regulatory problems.

We are willing to do things that people find instinctively repugnant, provided they save lives while at least not hurting the economy. How could we accomplish this?

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Carves reality at the seams.

Oops, anyone know how to stitch reality back together again?

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

A lot of rationalism is just an intense fear of death. Simulation hypothesis? Means that maybe you can live forever if you’re lucky. Superintelligence? Means that your robot god might grant you immortality someday. Cryogenics? Means that there’s some microscopic chance that even if you pass away you could be revived in the future at some point. Long terminism? Nothing besides maybe someday possibly making me immortal could possibly matter.

I mean don’t get me wrong I’d give a lot for immortality, but I try to uhh… stay grounded in reality.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Let us list some of the specific concrete examples of wokeism in this blog post and comments. For fun.

1. a gay kiss in the background of a scene in Star Wars
2. The movie Knives Out
3. What James Damore got fired from Google for pushing back against (if you don’t remember this; he has pushing back against the idea that women make for just as good programmers as men do)
4. Suing twitter for firing a significantly higher percentage of women than men during layoffs
5. The episode The Star Spangled Man from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier where Sam Wilson gets profiled by police.
6. Talking about ones membership of a protected group all the time
7. Leaving / Disinvesting from Twitter after Elon Musk purchased it.
8. Disney releasing a new Black Princess
9. Corporate training that trains people to discriminate against majorities instead of minorities

OK that’s probably enough…

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

Also it was a close race, but the award for “most WTF comment” is a tie between:

A policeman stops a black man, who complains about racial profiling, and then the policeman finds evidence of a crime, and says something like “police go where the crime is”?

and

please understand that the reason my mental netcode detected your behavior as agentic still seems to have been justified at the time.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

You can test people with bigger problems, like remembering the units in Wargame Red Dragon

The fact that this “bigger problem” is rote memorization aside, it looks like there are a whopping 1700 units in that game. With names like M113A3 Super Dragon, CH46-C Phrog, or LVTP-7A1. Imagine some horrible dystopian future where you get to lock yourself up in your room for a couple months with an Anki deck trying to memorize as many Wargame: Red Dragon units as possible.

Your brain would probably be fried by the time you edge out the competition for your completely-non-Red-Dragon-related job.

sailor_sega_saturn, 10 months ago

I remember role playing cops and robbers as a kid. I could point my finger and shout “bang bang I got you” but if my friend didn’t pretend to be mortally wounded and instead just kept running around there’s really nothing I could do.

sailor_sega_saturn, 11 months ago

Why did the new word I learned today have to be Tradhumanism of all things? :( I’m holding out for a word about ducklings tomorrow.