gilmore606
2yr ago
These are minstrel shows.
gilmore606
2yr 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
5mo ago
if you really hate Jews I presume you'd consider the Holocaust a great achievement
It's very possible to be a racist without also supporting mass murder. Maybe someone doesn't want to live around a certain race, or believes races in general should have their own nations, but isn't an insane mass murderer.
gilmore606
6mo ago
You're telling me a fictional movie made by Hollywood elites made you think poor white communities hate you? Damn I wonder how that could have happened.
gilmore606
6mo ago
Damaging people's social trust in Reddit would be doing them a huge favor.
gilmore606
1yr ago
the enemies of the West and free civilization
The West and free civilization seem to have led inexorably to everything you now decry. Are you sure this makes sense?
gilmore606
1yr ago
Art isn't for communicating information, it's for communicating viewpoints, "what-it's-like-to-be"s. If I write a song true enough, I can make you feel for a minute what it was like to be me losing my wife. (I can't actually do that, but some people can.) The only purpose of art is to make us feel less alone, which is why AI art is a contradiction and is fake and gay.
gilmore606
1yr 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
Never have I so desperately wanted people on themotte to work themselves into a shoot.
gilmore606
1yr 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
2yr ago
it happens in From Beyond, the spiritual prequel to Re-Animator, and that is also the only example I can really think of.
gilmore606
2yr ago
But qualia is posited to be experiential
This is just question begging; experiences are no more real than qualia, if they can't affect behavior by definition.
gilmore606
2yr ago
As so often happens, you're both right.
gilmore606
2yr ago
I have a friend who actually did this. Met him at a tech job about 15 years ago in the bay area, and he appeared to be a clean-cut nerdy Mormon. Got to chatting with coworkers and found that just a year earlier he had been a normal tech dork (working for Falcon video no less, a well known gay porn company) and had converted recently.
I got to talking to him after working there a while and in a moment of...something, he confessed to me that he didn't really believe the Mormon doctrines, but had converted in hopes of getting a wife and family.
The thing is : it worked. He actually did get married, have kids, and move to Idaho to be a Mormon. From what I understand he is still living this way to this day.
gilmore606
2yr ago
christ, imagine how this would butcher IlForte's posts. now I want to see it.
gilmore606
2yr 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
2yr 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
26d ago
Indeed. I had to quote it because, as a fallen-away Christian slowly coming back to the church, it is a verse I struggle with mightily.
gilmore606
4mo ago
An AGI should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for AlphaFold.
gilmore606
5mo ago
What, some coalition of black people, Hispanics and Asians decides to oppress white people?
They could call it the Democratic party. I think it could work!
gilmore606
5mo ago
This is exactly the reason Elon did the nazi salute, and I'm amazed no one else is picking up on that.
gilmore606
11mo ago
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between morality and game theory. Who/what should I read to get a handle on this?
gilmore606
11mo ago
It takes too much typing to compare things to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which would be nearly as accurate.
gilmore606
11mo ago
This is a very narrow view that ignores second order effects. If I know this is how the system works, I'm not even going to consider representing positions that will attract no donations, because the donators have no interest in advancing those positions. I can't just campaign with no money, because the function of the money is to make people aware that I'm running and get me in their mind in the first place.
I feel like someone like Steven Levitt is probably a smart person, who has surely thought of this very obvious dynamic, and it really makes me question his sincerity on anything else he has to say.
The thing is, when the ElsaGate videos first came to light, my first thought was: "Clearly a proto-AI is optimizing children's videos for views and is varying all possible parameters to find maxima". I still think this is very possible. So I'm not sure
necessarily applies. And even if it's not an AI doing this, isn't this pretty clearly what the mystery third-world video producers are doing? Many of these videos show up in variant forms with small deviations, suggesting multivariate testing. I guess you could be optimistic and choose to see this as the human artistic spirit, but it seems a lot more like Molochian profit maximization to me.
Once GPT can make credible videos I expect to see far more ElsaGate styled content, and not just targeted at kids.
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