gilmore606
1yr ago
It makes it more likely that people will adopt the attitude that there's no point in containing AI since if I don't do it, someone else will.
but...that is obviously true. And was always obviously true. And you're saying it's bad if more people come to this true conclusion?
gilmore606
1yr ago
I don't think that giving them rights would turn out to be particularly controversial IRL
It would if there's a huge amount of money to be made by not giving them rights. Which is the point of mmacevedo.
gilmore606
1yr ago
best I can do is a deepfake of Xi Jinping pulling his eyebrows out with tweezers, take it or leave it
gilmore606
5mo ago
Rare is the story that is interesting even while historically accurate
Hang on, aren't you the guy who wrote those great blogposts about Midway? Hoist by your own petard.
gilmore606
8mo ago
just don't reference anything remotely political
Dunno if you've made it to Act 3 but this is....definitely not what they did.
gilmore606
11mo ago
As so often happens, you're both right.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Choosing to believe (or act as if you believe) useful things seems very rational to me. I have an old coworker who was an atheist and cynically became a Mormon in order to marry a Mormon wife and live in a close-knit community. He now lives in Idaho and has 4 kids and by all accounts is very satisfied with the outcome. Who's more rational, him or a depressed medicated outspokenly atheist Bay area tech worker who's the least-liked member of his drama-cursed polycule?
If you rational long enough, you're eventually going to rational about rationality, and you'll see that beliefs are instrumental like anything else. There's no God of Integrity who laid down the law that you must profess true beliefs.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I thought I got this idea from Mark Fisher or Nick Land, but random googling isn't leading me to any obvious writing of theirs on this specific concept. Come to think of it maybe it was one of IlForte's pithier comments. Regardless you should read both of them.
gilmore606
2mo ago
I play a lot of Warhammer: Darktide, and it's a running joke in the playerbase that it's impossible to make an attractive female avatar.
gilmore606
1yr ago
An AI that gets 'frustrated' at its own limitations against the real world and it's solution is to just sand off all the sharp edges that are giving it problems.
I'm obligated to point out that this already happened, the AI was capitalism, the sharp edges were all direct human interactions, and our atomized broken society is the result.
gilmore606
1yr ago
This is hilarious; the entire apparent point of your comment chain was to get someone else to speak plainly. But for you it's okay to be arch and clever and whatever.
gilmore606
1yr ago
They also assume being smart means wanting to distinguish BS. People form their visible opinions for lots of reasons other than "a singleminded dedication to discovering an accurate epistemology". In fact I would say that is hardly anyone's real goal. Smart people possibly even less so than average people, since they are smart enough to see the advantages of other strategies.
gilmore606
1yr ago
It's a fun problem, how to destroy all life.
Damn I feel old, but -- you may be interested in the Usenet archive of the group alt.pave.the.earth and related alt.destroy.the.earth, which consist(ed) of engineering nerds endlessly hashing out this and related questions.
gilmore606
8mo ago
and I do so now elsewhere.
Would it be possible to be given a clue as to where that might be? Some of us consider ourselves fans of your writing.
gilmore606
9mo ago
I thought he wasn't into getting laid.
In his social circle you have to say that to get laid.
gilmore606
1yr ago
He exhibits empathy, love, and a vision of
You don't think maybe he has image consultants and PR flacks who assist him in curating this image which just happens to appeal to the subrational impulses of people such as yourself?
But generally, Sam Altman come's off as literally me, but smarter, less willing to cede humanity to nonhuman intelligences, and more careful.
Are people really this credulous? Sam Altman's previous scam company was WorldCoin, an attempt to create a cryptocoin tied to a global digital ID which would also involve him becoming super duper rich. He doesn't give a fuck about AI qua AI, he gives a fuck about being super duper rich.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I'm kinda wishing for a long deep recession that culls those with a disconnection from the nature of reality.
Oh me too. I just hope I don't find out I was one of them.
gilmore606
8mo ago
gilmore606
4mo ago
all the shit and excessive taxation I've had to endure
oh you poor dear. I guess we should destroy our culture to make it up to your poor beleaguered brahmin head. Please sir accept my apologies for the excessive taxation.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I’m of the opinion that the overwhelming majority of tech startups are overvalued and only existed as a result of absurdly low interest rates that no longer exist.
Speaking as a software contractor who primarily works for startups, and lost a client yesterday due to SVB, I would say this is not just your opinion but the general understanding of how all this works. Nobody in my world is particularly surprised by any of this; it's just how the wheel turns.
gilmore606
1yr ago
People don't receive their beliefs as propositional statements, they receive them as unspoken background assumptions in other messages, and reinforcement by approval/disapproval from peers. You've misunderstood how minds are changed. Moldbug doesn't change anyone's mind either, not even the super smarties you believe can understand him.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I too am a professional software guy and nerd-from-birth much like yourself, and I basically agree with the emotional thrust of the Kriss piece. I'm not sure why you think his attitude comes from ignorance of how things work; you simply assert this as being self evident. I've been helping to build the shit machine for the past 20 years and I can see quite clearly what I've done.
gilmore606
1yr ago
You can't justify morality by appealing to morality, so what basis is left beyond aesthetics?
gilmore606
1yr ago
Why are you doing this weird "oh my god look at THIS RACIST" song-and-dance here? For whom are you performing?
Yes this! We have an entire forum site here and we have one thread per week. It's absurd. Why do we do this? datasecretslox seems to work just fine as a normal forum.
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