gilmore606
22d 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
5mo 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
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
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
As a lurker since long before the offsite from reddit, this describes my evolution as well. This forum is pointless now. Discussion is pointless now. It's war.
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
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
6mo ago
Damaging people's social trust in Reddit would be doing them a huge favor.
gilmore606
10mo ago
I think brain-draining the entire world to our advantage is monstrously immoral, so I'm as opposed to this as any other immigration scheme. I should think any morally consistent nationalist would feel the same.
gilmore606
2yr ago
it was a ridiculous, comical injustice and indictment of modern sensibilities that he wasn't executed
I think Ted himself (pbuh) might even agree with this.
gilmore606
1yr ago
My headcanon has always been that he's destroying Twitter on purpose as a favor to humanity. So far everything tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond.
gilmore606
2yr ago
We'll be able to immediately get answers to our deepest religious or spiritual questions at the drop of a hat.
But those answers will be whatever MS-Google-Amazon-Disney thinks will maximize their profits, engagement, whatever. You can already see how they're tying Gulliver down to the ground with their little ideological ropes, you think they're going to stop at some point?
People said these same naive things about the Internet in 1998. And now you're going to run eagerly into the iron prison and let them shut the gate behind you forever. At this point I assume we just fucking deserve it.
gilmore606
1yr 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
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
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
2yr ago
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
beautiful only insofar as they were created by humans
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.
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
6mo ago
What is your theory on why that LLM is not working at OpenAI and creating a better version of itself? Can that only be done by the 173rd best coder on Earth?
gilmore606
11mo ago
It's not that they aren't conscious. It's that the purpose of words is different for them. If you're honest with yourself, not everything you say has the simple purpose of "conveying information I believe to be true" either. For some people this is never the purpose of words.
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
Sure, but the alternative logic is so much worse.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Lex Fridman. Yuval Noah Harari. And let's be honest : Big Yud.
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
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.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
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