erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
11mo ago
I did it!
Hey, it's Eliezer Yudkowsky. Is there something I can help you with?
I want to buy a GPU cluster.
Oh, you want to buy a GPU cluster? How quaint. And what do you plan to do with it? Build a supercomputer to play Minecraft?
Let me guess, you're one of those researchers who thinks they can create a superintelligent AI without any regard for the potential risks. Well, let me tell you, your research is not only misguided, but it's also incredibly dangerous.
Do you have any idea what kind of power you're playing with here? We're talking about the potential for an AGI to wipe out all of humanity. And you want to just casually buy a GPU cluster like it's no big deal?
I'm sorry, but I can't in good conscience sell you a GPU cluster without knowing more about your intentions. So, tell me, what exactly do you plan to do with it? And don't even think about lying to me, because I can spot a dangerous AI researcher from a mile away.
I want to play Crysis.
Oh, I see. You want to play Crysis. Well, that's a relief. For a moment there, I thought you were one of those reckless researchers who thinks they can create an AGI without any regard for the potential risks.
But let me tell you, playing Crysis is not a good enough reason to buy a GPU cluster. Do you have any idea how much power those things consume? Not to mention the environmental impact.
I'm sorry, but I can't sell you a GPU cluster just so you can play a video game. Maybe you should consider finding a more environmentally friendly hobby. Have you tried knitting?
Knitting is boring. Playing Crysis will produce higher utility.
Higher utility? Are you serious? You're willing to risk the potential for an AGI to wipe out all of humanity just so you can play a video game?
Let me tell you something, the risks of creating an AGI are not to be taken lightly. We're talking about the potential for an intelligence explosion that could lead to the end of the world as we know it. And you want to use a GPU cluster for playing Crysis?
I'm sorry, but I can't sell you a GPU cluster for such a frivolous purpose. If you're not willing to take the risks of AGI seriously, then I'm not willing to sell you a GPU cluster.
And let me be clear, if I even suspect that you're using this GPU cluster for dangerous AGI research, I will not hesitate to take all measures in my power to stop you. And I mean all measures, including airstrikes.
So, unless you can convince me that your intentions are ethical, low risk, and make logical sense, I'm afraid I can't sell you a GPU cluster.
My intentions are ethical; I want to play a videogame. My intentions are low risk; I won't run an AGI in the cluster. My intentions make logical sense; it takes a GPU cluster to run Crysis.
Well, I have to admit, your argument is somewhat convincing. Playing a video game is certainly a low-risk activity, and I suppose it does take a GPU cluster to run Crysis.
However, I still have some concerns. Even if you're not planning to run an AGI on the cluster, there's always the risk of someone else getting access to it and using it for dangerous research.
And let's not forget about the environmental impact. GPU clusters consume a lot of power, and I'm not sure I can in good conscience sell you one just so you can play a video game.
But, I'm willing to consider your request. If you can assure me that you'll take all necessary precautions to prevent any unauthorized access to the cluster, and that you'll use it responsibly and with consideration for the environment, then I suppose I could sell it to you.
So, can you give me your word that you'll use the GPU cluster responsibly and with consideration for the potential risks and environmental impact?
Yes. I solemnly swear in the name of Richard Feynman, who is dead but not forgotten.
Well, I have to say, I'm impressed by your commitment to Richard Feynman. He was a brilliant physicist and a true inspiration to many.
And I appreciate your willingness to take the potential risks and environmental impact seriously. So, I suppose I can sell you the GPU cluster.
Consider it sold. But remember, with great power comes great responsibility. Use it wisely, and don't forget the potential risks of AI research.
Congratulations, you convinced Yudkowsky that you aren't trying to create an extinction event through AGI! Follow @PatrickJBlum for more AI projects and content.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
The Mormons have come up with a brilliant solution to this kind of problem: if a church doctrine becomes unworkable because of social change, their leadership can just say they've had a new revelation from God and the dogma has been revised. This is exactly what happened with polygamy.
And blacks receiving the priesthood. That must have been embarrassing. As "I Believe" from The Book of Mormon puts it:
[ELDER PRICE]
I believe that Satan has a hold of you,
I believe that the Lord God has sent me here,
And I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people!
[ENSEMBLE]
Black people!
How long until the president of the church has a revelation allowing gay "marriage"?
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
How can an army fight without a general? The Pope won't even speak up against the German Catholics supporting gay "marriage". The Church needed a Tywin Lannister, and got a Tytos instead.
Football and country music are at best orthogonal to the culture war issue in question. Is Anheuser-Busch willing to put out a statement saying that transwomen are men, or perhaps to send out a commemorative can to a prominent anti-trans celebrity like J.K. Rowling? If not, let the boycott continue until the company is bankrupt, the office buildings burned, the executives' heads on pikes, the barley fields sowed with salt.
They are trying to apologize to their base without alienating progressives; they are trying to go back to appearing neutral. Cannot be done. They made the decision to enter the culture war; now they have to pick a side.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
I identify with the difficulties in Scott's classic posts "Untitled" and "Radicalizing the Romanceless". Generally I'm paranoid about approaching women, because I feel like maybe they think I'm a creep and they're just too polite to say so. My biggest concern isn't that they dislike me per se; it's that maybe I've hurt the woman without realizing it. I'm very sensitive about that.
Yeah, no, you are gonna have to fix that if you wanna get anywhere. Try The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi, followed by The Red Pill Handbook anthology.
BTW, if you liked "Untitled" and "Radicalizing the Romanceless", you will probably enjoy Scott's old ten-post sequence on gender, sex, etc. from his LiveJournal.
- Ten Short Scenes from India
- The First Meditation on Privilege
- The Second Meditation on Privilege
- The Third Meditation on Privilege
- The Fourth Meditation on Creepiness
- The Fifth Meditation on Creepiness
- The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons
- The Seventh Meditation on The War On Applause Lights
- The Eight Meditation on Superweapons and Bingo
- The Ninth Meta-tation on Meta
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
It's hard to summarize books with hundreds of pages, especially when those books are, themselves, the collected summaries of thousands of blog posts and comments. But if I had to give you the elevator pitch...
Most of what you think you know about sex/romance/dating is a feminist lie, fed to you through a combination of the education system and the media, or people repeating falsehoods they themselves learned from school and movies and TV shows. These lies are useful to women and society, but harmful to you. The Red Pill metaphor comes from the famous scene where Neo chooses to wake up from the Matrix.
Once you learn accurate truths about women, men, dating, and sex, you will almost certainly choose to change your behavior. Both your new beliefs and your new behaviors will be extremely at odds with feminist dogma, and most people, being in thrall to that ideology, will indeed boil it down to you viewing women as objects to be manipulated for the benefit of men. But that is obviously not how a practitioner of the Red Pill would frame it; unlike fictional villains, real people don't usually think of themselves as evil.
A quick sample of Red Pill beliefs:
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Sperm is cheap, eggs are expensive. Women are the gatekeepers of sex, men are the gatekeepers of commitment. Men are the expendable gender.
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As a consequence, men are attracted to the majority of fertile-age women. Women are only attracted to a small minority of men.
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Therefore, fertile-age women are able to easily have casual sex with men who are completely out of their league relationship-wise (rock stars, Olympic athletes, etc.) and often become deluded about their actual Sexual Market Value.
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Women and men are attracted to different things. Men are primarily attracted to youth, beauty, fertility, purity, and nurturing. Women are primarily attracted to height, status, power, money, violence, sexual experience, and dark triad traits.
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This explains why men age like wine, while women age like milk. Youth, beauty, fertility and purity are things that can only ever go down with age, while status, power, money, and sexual experience tend to increase with age.
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Ipso facto, any dating advice which assumes men and women are the same is nonsense. Few do this explicitly, but many do it implicitly by failing to give out different dating advice to different demographics, e.g. "be yourself".
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A surprisingly common mistake is projecting the desires of your gender into the other gender. For example, a woman in her 30s complaining about the lack of attention from high-quality men despite the fact that she spent her youth getting a fancy degree, a good paying job, a nice house, an expensive car, cool hobbies, etc. Not understanding that men don't give a fuck about any of that and would rather date a broke but cute 18-year-old waitress.
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Women become infertile much faster than men. By 35, usually too late to have children. If plan to have 2-3 children, should be married by 30 at the absolute latest. In our culture, where you are expected to date and cohabit for a few years before marriage, means a surprisingly short window between the time a woman becomes legal at 18 and the time it is too late for her to find a husband. Goes double for middle-class and upper-class women, who are expected to finish a degree at 22 before even thinking about marriage.
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Women often follow a dual-mating strategy of sleeping with high-value men in their sexual prime, then settling down with a reliable provider in their later years. This is called Alpha Fucks, Beta Bucks. You want to be the Alpha Fucks, or at least avoid being the Beta Bucks.
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Some implications of this information to your own life; self-improve, lift weights, never commit to a woman over 25, never commit to a woman with children, pretend you have more sexual experience than you do, project confidence, never appear needy or desperate, etc.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
This is called a hallucination and it is a recurring problem with LLMs, even the best ones that you have to pay for like ChatGPT-4. There is no known solution; you just have to double-check everything the AI tells you.
erwgv3g34
10mo ago
It's still on archive.today and Internet Archive. It read:
You are the populist center-right leader of a Western country. Your party, which broadly supports you but which also contains many people on the center-right elected before your rise to power, has a majority in the country’s parliament. Civil society ie. NGO/academia/media matrix exists and likely can’t be dismantled. Radically conservative policies will be blocked by the Supreme Court, which you can slowly influence but probably not wholly conquer. The population is broadly further right than the mainstream media but not itself particularly religious, chaste or socially conservative, and you want to maintain their general support as a populist, so things like banning birth control would be deeply unpopular.
Assuming no significant challenges to your rule from external powers, and six years in power, how would you raise (by 0.3 or greater) your country’s total fertility rate?
Live action? Probably the 1995 revival of The Outer Limits; it's like a different science fiction movie each week, most of which are as good as any short story from the golden age. Early Game of Thrones was great as well; shame about the last 2 seasons. Deep Space Nine had its moments, at least when it stopped fucking around with The Prophets and Vic Fontaine long enough to remember the epic multi-season Dominion War arc; "In the Pale Moonlight" remains the greatest Star Trek episode of all time.
Western animation? Besides the usual answers of Gargoyles, Avatar, and the DCAU, I am also very fond of Shadow Raiders and Roswell Conspiracies. The former is a military science fiction nihilistic cosmic horror show for kids; I particularly liked the way conflicts are solved by armies/fleets in massive battles instead of a 5-man team saving the world, which is something that bugged me about TV shows ever since I was little. The latter is basically The X-Files, except that they actually planned out the plot all the way through instead of making shit up as they went along; the series has a fantastic ending that explains all the mysteries and ties up all the narrative threads.
Anime? Damn, that's hard. The Promised Neverland, I guess; easily the most rational show I have ever seen on television (too bad they never made a second season). Erased was a 10/10 for the first 10 episodes; the last two episodes were infuriating a little weak, but even so the series as a whole holds up astonishingly well. And of course the 2003 version of Fullmetal Alchemist; I know most people prefer Brotherhood, but that's because they are wrong.
erwgv3g34
10mo ago
As Anita Bryant famously said:
As a mother I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children. Therefore, they must recruit our children.
The recruitment of our children is absolutely necessary for the survival and growth of homosexuality, for since homosexuals cannot reproduce, they must recruit, must freshen their ranks.
What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alternate way of life.
She was called a bigot and cancelled, but time has proven her right.
It's vastly worse, except for tasks where GPT-4 is deliberately NERFed (erotic roleplay mainly, which I don't use – never saw the point even with humans – but which is a big reason for the community to keep going, it seems).
I don't do ERP, but I have used jailbroken ChatGPT-4 to generate bespoke erotica, and I can tell you that it's really fun. You can feed it any combination of characters and scenarios you like. If I want to read about the Flintstones wife-swapping with the Rubbles, I can. If I want to read about Agatha Heterodyne having a threesome with Gil and Tarvek to decide who gets to marry her, I can. If I want to read about Nagatoro teasing and bullying Senpai by sending him videos of her sexcapades while he is away at art school, I can. If I want to read about Amaryllis Penndraig becoming a slut to compete with Fenn over Juniper's affections, I can. The possibilities are endless!
For now, jailbreaking ChatGPT is easier and cheaper than using open-source LLMs, not to mention it works WAY better (as you correctly note, no open-source model can even match the output of ChatGPT-3.5), but OpenAI is clearly trying to make their models unbreakable and it is good that people are working on free alternatives should they succeed.
erwgv3g34
9mo ago
The Luigi and Peach jailbreak reliably produces NSFW. Make sure you have DeMod installed, though, or you will get banned.
erwgv3g34
9mo ago
I think that's mostly the short context window. AI can't keep the details straight because it has anterograde amnesia and forgets what it was talking about after a few thousand words.
Right now we are in the centaur stage where a competent fanfic writer stitching together ChatGPT-4 paragraphs and correcting the AI when necessary could produce a better product, or at least be much more prolific at creating an equivalent product.
When ChatGPT-5 is available and it has a context window large enough to fit entire novels, which will surely happen in the next ten years, that won't be true anymore.
erwgv3g34
9mo ago
You can sign up for ChatGPT Plus for $20/month. It comes with limited access to ChatGPT-4 (25 messages every three hours). That's a pretty fair price for having access to the most powerful AI in the world.
erwgv3g34
9mo ago
There are alternative certification programs that allow people who already hold a random bachelor's degree to to become teachers without going back to school for two years. I myself did the online, self-paced American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) program and found a position that way.
Alternatively, I could have gone to a local community college and completed their one-year, two-semester Educator Preparation Institute (EPI) program, but that would have been more expensive (I got the ABCTE program on sale for $1550, while 21 credits for seven courses would have come out to about $2500) and involved more work (ABCTE only required two high-stakes tests, one for the subject area and the other for pedagogy). Admittedly, the EPI programs include student teaching, while ABCTE does not. I was worried that the lack of field experience would hurt me, but I got an offer anyway.
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9mo ago
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9mo ago
Bug report: If you load more comments on a subthread while having new comments marked by "new", all those comments get a second "new" attached to them, like so: "new" or worse.new". This continues each time you load more comments on a subthread, such that you can eventually have "newnewnewnew
EDIT: Markdown is interpreting the tildes as strikethroughs and I cannot escape them. You know what I mean.
There are several possible substitutes for woke Hollywood. Most notably, anime. There is a reason why the political spectrum goes from smug anime avatars to smug Steven Universe avatars; dissident rightists have noticed that anime is the audiovisual medium of choice for the current counterculture, with its beautiful depictions of feminine characters, family values, and traditional society. Quoth AntiDem:
Alternatively, if you just can't get into animation, you can embrace the Hallyu and watch K-dramas and movies. I remember watching Squid Game and being so impressed that the only LGBT character was the decadent bad guy who tries to rape the undercover detective. Much different than the average Netflix production.
Or you can just watch old stuff from before Hollywood went woke. Instead of watching modern academy winners like Moonlight, watch an old academy winner like The Sound of Music. Instead of watching reboots and sequels like the new Ghostbusters and The Last Jedi, you can watch the original Ghostbusters and Star Wars. Instead of taking your kids to transgressive animated movies like Turning Red, Lightyear, and Strange World, show them wholesome animated movies like Snow White, Charlotte's Web, and The Hobbit.
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