dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
Hey I don't want to begrudge you your beliefs but I think you'd find the LessWrong umbrella of subcultures to be much more receptive to Fat Tony arguments than most intellectual communities. It's almost our defining feature.
But they ended up with this ridiculous result and no one is convinced.
I thought he convinced a panel of judges?
Fat Tony is a heuristic. If you have no ability to ask any other questions or investigate yourself or don't have the time to check, it's pretty good. But it's not an irrefutable argument.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
Eh, I'm pretty sure the endgame is a handful of hive intelligences and the only distinction an individual human offers is a very particular set of high level value inputs.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
Locally it made what I wanted to say clearer, in those 5% of places where I was just struggling, for the benefit of the reader.
Globally it gave the AI hysterical a small piece to bite off and choke on and cause a scene.
So it was a loss.
Clearly next time I need to run it through Pangram and iterate until I score 0. Until mid 2027 when it won't matter anymore aside from a few neo-Luddite corners.
I'm also aware of the Root Claim debate which I've encountered as a wall of text and like 30 hours of videos. I'd love an explanation of why this debate matters, but my tendency is to dismiss it as a gish gallop.
I think the reason it matters is because COVID origin skeptics find stories that sound good to them and they stop there, while the guy who won that first root claim debate didn't suffer from Too Good to Check and exhaustively investigated them and found they were nothingburgers.
(I'm saying why they matter, not that I've weighed the arguments. I'm too burnt out on COVID to read about it anymore)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
I presume you meant to say TRT? HRT is to fix female problems.
Men that want to be more womanly go on HRT, e.g. trans.
Men that want to be more manly go on TRT.
I clearly failed to estimate how triggered the world is on this topic. The essay was about an LLM driven rewrite of a software module btw. Should not be controversial.
Am I going to stop using AI assistance? No. I'm just going to do a better job of concealing it next time.
Nothing has been gained. In software it's mostly accepted in professional circles that AI was used. In writing people are still trying to resist ✊🏻
I'm fairly butthurt on this topic because while I think AI writing is not better than the best humans at writing, at the moment, it can at least get the point across.
I wrote an essay a few months ago that took about 4 days. I had 2 human friends review it. I made sure to handle drive by criticisms and anticipate other objections.
Some parts of my essay didn't flow nicely so I asked Claude for a suggestion on those. In some places I did use Claude's suggestion, verbatim. This had an obvious AI tell but it was genuinely better than the way I phrased it. Nevertheless 95% of the essay was my artisan human typing.
Boom, essay ruined. Some anti slop warrior came by and accused me of having no respect for the people who have to read it, derailing the conversation
The only reason I even used Claude is because I was trying to produce a serious work and I didn't have an editor handy. Fuck me.
Anyway, I understand people are irked by completely phoned in comments or articles or emails but the AI detectives are their own online cancer.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
I walked into a barber shop in Pittsburgh once. I was the only non-black person. There was a group there just hanging out. They paused their conversation for like 3 minutes after I sat down and then got back to it.
The levels of shooting the shit they were doing was unmatched. I wish I could say more but I ... didn't even understand what they were talking about(??)
All of the other times I've been to a barber shop I only end up talking to the barber, they're usually pretty empty.
I tried wandering into the barber shop by my house and they asked me to make an appointment. Like what. An appointment for a place with a barber pole outside? Wack.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
How about an AI greentext?
>be anon
>dunk on shrimp welfare guy
>he replies "ok what's your framework"
>don't have one
>get one just to win the argument
>now I have a framework
>framework says I should donate more
>mfw I got mogged into tithing by shrimp
I'm just going to pretend the book review was posted as the OP instead.
For Americans and others only accustomed to for-profit care encountering this for the first time, the experience can feel vertiginous, like you’ve stepped into a film about the Soviet Union, except the doctors speak English and the building has running water. I do suspect there’s less phage therapy and more tea involved.
I've had this experience. It reminded me of being in public school. Everyone working there looks tired, the guy with almost debilitating tourettes is a security guard, the whole building is the color of oxidized beige computer hardware and maybe you can smell mold that experts have decided was totally nothing to worry about.
Was the Soviet Union like this?
Buying a bigger and better house in a nicer neighborhood, replacing anything that works okay but isn't perfect, paying for delivery instead of picking it up even when it's just 5 minutes of extra errand, furniture that matches, throwing away anything I haven't touched in a year.
The most audacious thing I did was having a matcha latte delivered to me by DoorDash when I was watching my kids at a playground.
It's still pretty hard. Money doesn't buy that much happiness.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
3d ago
I'm much more interested in living it up lately but I think it's better explained by my P(doom) being at 0.1 than going on a GLP-1
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
I was getting a colonoscopy the other day and right as the probe entered me and I saw how challenging it was for the doctor and nurses to get it up all of the way I thought "this job is safe from automation, robots won't be able to do this until like, 2030 at least"
He posts repeatedly about white ethnonationalism. Is that benign? I'm not sure that's in the Overton window.
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