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.
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 :(
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?