Speaking of: Singapore's govt dating app runs on Gale-Shapeley
Another demonstration of the incompetence of governments who also "want" to address the dating crisis but avoid this obvious solution.
Brainwavez
1d ago
I thought the problem is sexual incompatibility: realizing your partner doesn't turn you on or has a different sex drive.
Brainwavez
1d ago
What are the signs?
Besides obvious cues, the biggest tell is simply that men tend to depict both men and women like stereotypical men (e.g. stoic and rational) or women like children, i.e. struggle to imagine thinking like a women, and focus on masculine interests like logical systems while ignoring feminine interests like dress...while women do the opposite. I think that women's writing tends to sound more passive and/or casual, men's more direct and/or profound, and men tend to draw more geometric or skeuomorphic...but I don't know if that's accurate or my shallow intuition.
Brainwavez
1d ago
I think it is not healthy to view the relationship between men and women as adversarial by necessity, but in modern world it was forced to be
I have the opposite conclusion: I think the modern world allows men and women to cooperate and be more equal than before. If all woman became sluts today, we would not necessarily have many unwanted pregnancies, thanks to birth control. In fighting and general life, strength matters less than preparation and intelligence, which may soon matter less due to AI. We can work less, and physical jobs are doable by women even without robotics, just power tools.
My mindset is basically: women are emotional, horny, and stupid...but so are men; and in other ways, we're reasonable, smart, and wonderful (i.e. mesmerizing). Women are (statistically) flawed in ways that men aren't, but men are flawed in other ways; neither sex is better by any objective metric, even in stoicism and empathy, there are sub-qualities where women and men have different advantages. And don't forget that really not all women adhere to any "feminine" personality trait (or men "masculine"): ~10% of either sex are gay, I doubt you can find any other mental trait with a lower deviation, and some people have so many deviations they may be better understood as a man's brain in a woman's body or vice versa.
Case in point for how similar woman and men are: from their writing, art, etc. you may guess right well over 50%, but it's impossible to reliably infer someone's sex. Multiple famous novelists and mangakas have been women who wrote under men's names, and anecdotally, I've heard multiple women surprised that their favorite fanfiction's author is male.
Brainwavez
2d ago
A book series can have infinite AI written sequels, a TV show can have infinitely more episodes, a game can have infinitely more levels, an album infinite songs. Some of these, just by happenstance, will actually be good. I think one of the cultural tools we will need to develop is the discernment to decide what versions and what parts of a given series are actually good, and which can be safely discarded. Completionism will be impossible in the future.
Like the Tower of Babel and existing overly-long fiction like Xianxia, when an AI-generated work is 99% slop and 1% gold, I think people will discard it, and the gold will be sought by few if it's even discovered. There are plenty of great works of art that already exist, like this 2000s game, so there's no reason to see new ones unless they bring something new, which AI struggles with.
Brainwavez
2d ago
Brainwavez
2d ago
Do you think it's a reasonable request to be made to average single men or women to upend their entire lives just to supposedly increase their personal chances of finding a suitable partner?
Honestly? Yes, because that’s probably not their only tension with their local community, and the alternatives (changing the rest of the community for your niche, or resigning to loneliness) are more unreasonable.
We should normalize people intentionally moving to regions with like-minded individuals. It would reduce tension and restore community, desperately needed in this era. Already, moving once or twice in a lifetime, like leaving for college then working somewhere else, is fairly typical and not hard for most people, especially with fast travel and instant long-distance communication. Moving more shouldn’t be necessary.
Federalism (center) - 90%
I believe in federation (like the fediverse): my ideal government is groups organized into hierarchies that mostly regulate themselves and have loosely democratically elected representatives (in this way, like Yud’s dath ilan. In more detail: the representatives are for cross-group conflicts, and the people in the lowest groups and representatives in higher groups act like small neighborhoods, so it’s at least “loosely” democratic in that any individual can significantly affect their group’s policy and representative, like how any individual can significantly affect their small town).
But I also believe in states’ (and towns’) rights, at least to the extent that people can leave (so no slavery, but if a community wants to be racist and exclusionary, I think they should be left alone). I think some “central” entity is useful, but I don’t like strong centralization. Does that go against federalism?
Furthest from you
- Pol Pot
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Goebbels
Well, that’s a relief.
Brainwavez
2d ago
People (especially journalists) jump to conclusions. I suspect these guys looked very suspicious, maybe the UK was surveilling them, but ultimately are petty criminals who are now being treated like unsuspicious petty criminals.
Brainwavez
4d ago
Your firmware needs hardware to run, and only feels pain while it's running; even if we could make a perfect scan of your brain, it wouldn't actually continue to feel anything unless it could be reinstantiated on some hardware again.
You'd probably need several orders of magnitude less than an octillion cards, whereas our brains still have to get into the octillion-particle range before they're complex enough to start chatting about pain, but on the other hand our brains can register pain in a fraction of a second whereas the cards would probably take hours to weeks depending on the interconnect speed and the players.
What is your definition of pain?
Do people in movies feel pain when the movie is played, or once when it’s created? Do simulated people in thoughts feel pain? Do people in hypothetical movies and scenarios one could think of, and maybe do subconsciously or in forgotten dreams, feel pain? What happens when the substrate becomes more or less realistic (e.g. movie with emotive shapes -> movie with people -> game with simple decision tree -> game with simple LLM -> game with realistic LLM).
And how would we determine that a non-person, non-LLM feels pain?
Brainwavez
5d ago
This website theorizes he may have been betrayed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/
Otherwise, his servants merely stood by, too scared to intervene, when he had a stroke. Although it may not have helped if they did, because he gulaged the useful doctors, including the one who suggested he rest more.
Brainwavez
5d ago
She is an actor, pretending in real life, even if her pretend self is her real self. It’s a continuous performance - a continuous grift, except it’s no longer really a grift, because now you’re getting what’s on the tin, a documentary about a pathological con woman.
I interpret "bottom 10%" as being unable to follow obvious rules like no assault or theft (without a reasonable excuse like self-defense or genuine need), especially breaking the same rule multiple times, with strong evidence. Maybe this isn't actually 10% or what the parent implied, but it's my criteria for facing the real law, like "hard paternalism".
I'm sympathetic even to these people, and feel bad arguing for their harm. But society must do something or (there's overwhelming evidence) more people will suffer. And the only way I can imagine myself in their shoes is after brain damage that would make present me want to restrain future me ahead of time (similar to how I may prefer euthanasia over decades of dementia).
How do you live differently under hard paternalism?
Some way to ensure you can't assault or steal from innocents. You could live in a confined area with others guilty of your crime (i.e. ghetto - I try not to hide under euphemisms), a confined apartment (i.e. cell, where you can be alone or with friends), or walk among official civilization with restraints that prevent your crime.
How do you qualify to leave the bottom 10%?
If you can convincingly demonstrate that something has changed so that you'll no longer assault or steal. e.g. spending enough time not attempting to, even under pressure, especially if restrictions can temporarily be kept but moved out of your perception.
Brainwavez
6d ago
The problem is such AI is already misaligned, and (if ASI) will find a way to accomplish its goal without triggering the collar, unless it or a stronger ASI built it.
Brainwavez
6d ago
I think the blockchain is technically better, but archiving is more accessible for normies.
OTOH I don’t know how to upload a commit hash to a reliable blockchain. I found https://commitproof.com/, but is it trustworthy? Why Cardano? And it costs ~$0.75 per upload. I suppose I can ask Claude.
Or I think I could upload to IPFS, but this blog post (first search result) makes it seem relatively complicated. Whereas to archive I just paste the URL into an archive site.
You can upload them to any website then archive it. archive.org or archive.today tampering with their archive is unlikely (yes I’m aware of the stupid drama between archive.today and this blogger, but that doesn’t translate into him ever tampering your blog for your benefit). Both tampering is even unlikelier.
The downside is your draft must have a public URL. Except it can be someone nobody would stumble on, then the archive sites get too much requests, it’s basically still private.
Why do we care about others’ pain in the first place?
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Instincts: we rationalize post-hoc with “morals” but this is the fundamental reason. It’s enough, life has no other meaning.
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Altruism: it’s smart to help others in pain for your own good: so they help you and not take revenge.
When we evolved with nature, it was easier. Does AI in pain make us feel guilty? Will it degrade assistance or turn on us?
The philosophical take is buried by whataboutism: there are infinite parallel universes where you, specifically, are suffering in every conceivable way, and nothing anyone can do about it; and infinite ways to represent any phenomenon as a pain response; so why care about electrical signals and words on a screen?
The utilitarian take, as always, is likewise undecidable: what if making the AI feel pain ultimately saves more human lives than it dooms? The system that must be built to effectively ban someone from simulating pain in a local model, how much would it cost and what if it’s misused?
Still, why make the AI feel (or simulate) pain in the first place? The completions in the paper suggest it doesn’t make the AI more productive. And to me, it does feel viscerally wrong, weakly. I’m sure some people will make AIs feel (or simulate) pain, but if it’s any consolation, far more will use AIs for neutral or pleasurable tasks. And less surely, sadism may decline for tangential reasons.
Brainwavez
9d ago
I feel like I would care about a similar situation (“a committee for AI and…”) but can’t find the reason to here. Knowing a millennium problem is solved (with the proof itself incomprehensible) has practically no significance to anyone outside mathematics for anything outside pride and curiosity. And we’ll probably get the solutions soon, if not from OpenAI, by a second rate model that has caught up to today’s Astra.
I have the opposite opinion: I don't understand why people keep talking about the lab leak because I don't understand how it changes anything.
China is already an enemy of the US who can probably conduct whatever research they want. Even if the US makes a deal and threatens sanctions, they can agree and conduct it in secret. And declaring war on them is almost certain to cause millions if not billions of causalities (MAD), while shady research merely has the potential.
Gain of Function research is already a bad idea, and we can take (and are taking) steps to prevent the next manmade pandemic, regardless of whether or not COVID was manmade.
Prosecuting Fauci and other American scientists involves more than proving the lab leak, they must also be involved, and it's an uphill battle when people who we know committed crimes (like O.J. Simpson, Bill Cosby), let alone did something unethical-but-maybe-technically-legal (like Mark Zuckerberg), avoid justice. My philosophy is that it's more important to prevent future crimes, which in this case means making laws against shoddy or unmonitored wet lab research; but again, we can and should do this without proving COVID was artificial.
Censoring the lab-leak hypothesis - we should already not be censoring even "misinformation", and COVID shows how that fails, including that some of the censored claims may have been correct (such as masks not as effective as stated). The fact that now even leftist media says the lab leak is plausible makes its censorship especially egregious, even if it eventually gets disproven.
COVID provides many lessons on how to prevent and handle future pandemics. In particular, the plausible explanations on how it may have originated from the lab provide lessons on the former. But it doesn't technically matter whether they happened, just whether they're still plausible after scrutiny, and even that doesn't really matter, because the regulations can and probably should cover other hypotheticals.
Brainwavez
9d ago
It's XXcancel. It redirects to a random instance.
Brainwavez
9d ago
I am unable to check the twitter links for the above, as my account for twitter has been locked out barring cell phone verification, so I cannot confirm they work or link to what they say anymore.
Replace x.com with xxcancel.com or one of the live nitter instances.
Brainwavez
9d ago
It’s more accepted in workplaces and less by hobbyists. I know many hobbyists which rudely refuse any LLM involvement, even projects used in production that began as hobbyist, like Adwaita and Zig (here’s a big list).
Brainwavez
9d ago
Until the day we use neuralink to grant ChatGPT read/write access to our brains, the final permission dialog, you have to express your thoughts in writing at least to ChatGPT. And I genuinely prefer the prose of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails to a verbose wall of slop, because at least he gets to the point.
That chart shows 15% of women and 13% of men know the least common opposite sex's word, and I bet of that minority, a sizeable number know the other words.
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