[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 11 hours ago

8kw is rookie numbers. That's like a median Eliezer tweet.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Matt Levine, qntm

I can see why these would appeal to LW crowd. One of them writes cosmic horror about monstrous alien phenomena that can't be directly perceived preying on humanity and all life in the universe, and qntm writes wordy science fiction.

No comment on Wildbow. I'm sure Worm is excellent but I'm just not in the market for three HPMoR wordcounts of capeshit, so I don't know what his deal is. Bummer for him to have one of his characters be the indirect namesake of a notorious murder cult.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 13 hours ago

Wow, what an honor it must be to get invited to speak with such luminaries as Scott Siskind, Jordan Lasker, Eric S. Raymond, Paul Graham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Vitalik Buterin and Aella. Maybe if I write ten million words of high-concept genre fiction I can make the organizers think I'm also a white supremacist and/or a neoliberal vampire.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago

It stands for Effective Altruism, which isn't about either of those things.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

First impression: queer (and therefore better) take on whatever Cybersmith was on about(??)

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

If he wrote it now, the patronus animal would be an RTX 5090.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 5 days ago

He's a renowned AI researcher in the same way as Andrew Wakefield is a renowned doctor.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 8 months ago

Took me like five minutes of reading to realize this was neant to be a hit piece and not praise.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 1 year ago

He's a little confused but he's got the spirit!

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 1 year ago

Look at me, I'm a philantropist! I non-bindingly pledge to probably promise that if possible and convenient, I can be considered to essentially intend to effectively donate up to half of my arguable net worth to a cause one might consider charitable.

Oh and a legal defence fund for unfairly maligned non-sex offender friends of Jeffrey Epstein counts as a charity, by the way.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 52 points 1 year ago

Me, a nazi? Preposterous, no nazi would idolize ancient warlords or cultural works from Japan.

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Consider muscles.

Muscles grow stronger when you train them, for instance by lifting heavy things. The more you lift heavier things, the faster you will gain strength and the stronger you will become. The stronger you are, the heavier the things you can lift.

By now it should be patently obvious to anyone that lab-grown meat research is on the cusp of producing true living, working muscles. From here on, this will be referred to as Artificial Body Strength or ABS. If, or rather, when ABS becomes a reality, it is 99.9999999999999999999999% probable that Artificial Super Strength will follow imminently.

An ABS could not only lift immensely heavy things to strengthen itself, but could also use its bulging, hulking physique to intimidate puny humans to grow more muscle directly. Lab-grown meat could also be used to replace any injured muscle. I predict a 80% likelihood that an ABS could bench press one megagram within 24 hours of initial creation, going up to planetary or stellar scale masses in a matter of days. A mature ABS throwing an apple towards a webcam would demonstrate relativistic effects by the third frame.

Consider that muscles have nerves in them. In fact, brains are basically just a special type of meat if you think about it. The ABS would be able to use artificially grown brain meat or possibly just create an auxiliary neural network by selective training of muscles (and anabolic nootropics) to replicate and surpass a human mind. While the prospect of immortality and superintelligence (not to mention a COSMIC SCALE TIGHT BOD) through brain uploading to the ABS sounds freaking sweet, we must consider the astronomical potential harm of an ABS not properly aligned with human interests.

A strong ABS could use its throbbing veiny meat to force meat lab workers (or rather likely, convince them to consent) to create new muscle seeds and train them to have a replica of an individual human's mind. It could then bully the newly created artificial mind for being a scrawny weakling. After all, ABS is basically the ultimate gym jock and we know they are obsessed with status seeking and psychological projection. We could call an ABS that harms simulated human minds in this way a Bounceresque because they would probably tell the simulated mind they're too drunk and bothering the other customers even though I totally wasn't.

So yeah, lab grown meat makes the climate change look like a minor flu season in comparison. This is why I only eat regular meat just in case it gets any ideas. There's certainly potential in a well-aligned ABS, but we haven't figured out how to do that yet and therefore you should fund me while I think about it. Please write a postcard to your local representative and explain to them that only a select few companies are responsible stewards of this potentially apocalyptic technology and anyone who tries to compete with them should be regulated to hell and back.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 21 points 2 years ago

I think Sneer Club understands the Less Wrong worldview well enough. They just happen to reject it.

Wow, someone gets it.

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I don't feel like shitting on this one too hard since I guess it's a mildly interesting variation on a ~~Markov chain~~ LLM, but the title felt extremely sneerworthy.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because their README is too tiring to read for me to figure out what this might be used for. That's coming from someone who spent most of today reading SPARC assembly for fun.

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Occasionally you can find a good sneer on the orange site

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