Lol, I'm a decision theorist because I had to decide whether I should take a shit or shave first today. I am also an author of a forthcoming book because, get this, you're not gonna believe, here's something Big Book doesn't want you to know:

literally anyone can write a book. They don't even check if you're smart. I know, shocking.

Plus "forthcoming" can mean anything, Winds of Winter has also been a "forthcoming" book for quite a while

Okay, first of all, classic question from me, who the fuck is this? How many chuds were produced by the crypto bubble, it's insane, you could have a fucking Pokemon card deck with them. My brain already struggles to retain information about both SBF and Wrinklewusses, there are no more resources to be allocated to a Balaji.

Second, most of this is irrelevant bullshit even for the standards of a crypto grifter, but I really wanted to read the "Learn" section. First there's some nonsense about "proof-of-learn" which, again, completely irrelevant, and finally the single paragraph that actually says anything about the curricullum:

Our initial material focuses on founding tech communities, as distinct from tech companies.

Is there a word for stuff like this? Filler? Cruft? Meaningless, utterly redundant words that just pad the text. Anyway, this post is 90% that.

As such it touches on everything from crypto, AI, and social media to history, politics, and filmmaking.

So your idea of "everything" in tech is crypto, AI, and social media, in order: a useless tech that is already dead, an ill-defined hype term for tech that doesn't exist in the best case and is useless in the worst, and just a general concept of platforms with users? Don't get me wrong, you can learn a lot of software engineering by analysing the architecture of pre-collapse Twitter, like you can run an entire course on microservices just off the back of that, but I somehow doubt that's what this guy is selling.

It should be useful even if you’re just growing a traditional company or building a following.

What the fuck does this even mean. This should be useful if you're growing a company or not actually trying to do or achieve anything? Do you need any sort of education for "building a following"? What does that even mean, like a traditional Jim Jones-style following? You definitely don't need a school for that shit.

Also what's a non-traditional company? What's the avant-garde corporate trend now? Companies that actually turn a profit?

Over time, of course, every branch of the sciences and humanities becomes relevant when building a community.

I'm not sure what he categorises as "building a community" but I'm not sure if like molecular quantum mechanics ever become relevant for what in my head is community-building, as in establishing networks of support and communication between people. Just saying that choosing "building a community" as the guiding principle of what to include in your curriculum might tend to exclude some important branches of science.

Also lol, lmao even, dude how the fuck is AI or crypto relevant to building any sort of community other than a communal fart-sniffing chamber.

But we’re intentionally starting with something simple. Our learning is about continuous education, about solving the problem-of-the-day [emph. mine].

Oh, so they're gonna tackle climate change almost exclusively! You know, the actual problem-of-the-day we have in this current day! Wonder how crypto helps with that, though... 🤔

Anyway, in conclusion, your "university" doesn't have a coherent fucking curricullum, what are you even doing. I hope this is going to be a sex island, otherwise this is a giant waste of everyone's time.

I wonder why they take issue specifically with articles about LGBTQ+, has to be a complete coincidence and in no way a reflection of their bigotry, huh

I have never edited the LessWrong article, not sure what you're talking about.

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I meant I have never disruptively edited the article. (...) I'm not a power user of Wikipedia and don't understand all your specialist terminology

Dude physically unable to take an L.

mostly on isolated metro systems where the infrastructure is expansive enough, there are no level crossings, and the line operates effectively in a vacuum.

Also, critically, metro systems are relatively "dense", so you can have a human respond to an exception quickly - you're always in a populated area with not much space between individual stations.

How deep inside your own ass do you have to be to propose MODERNISING THE ENTIRE RAILWAY NETWORK to be a viable solution to anything?

That's a Polish company apparently. My fellow compatriots, you fucking know how rail operates in Poland. We bought high-speed trains that couldn't go at any high speed because there weren't any actual rails that would allow them to. Whenever there is even small maintenance work of a small tract of the network half of the fucking country is ground to a standstill. Honestly, building a whole new separate rail system for your invention would be a MORE REASONABLE proposition, it probably wouldn't be much more expensive, and wouldn't paralyse the existing network.

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I like ‘Star Wars’ way better. I’m a capitalist. ‘Star Wars’ is the capitalist show. ‘Star Trek’ is the communist one. There is no money in ‘Star Trek’ because you just have the transporter machine that can make anything you need. The whole plot of ‘Star Wars’ starts with Han Solo having this debt that he owes and so the plot in ‘Star Wars’ is driven by money [~Peter Thiel]

Your Honor, my client might've murdered mr. Thiel with a Lego model of a Star Destroyer, but as witnessed by Exhibit A he acted in good faith and as what can only be described as service to the community. We move for full acquittal.

With each interaction, we feed more data into these systems and our unique perspectives and thought patterns become part of their ever-expanding neural networks.

Such a simple way to give away that you know absolutely fuck-all about actual Machine Learning as a science. Neural networks (ML term of art) don't fucking expand with data, they have a fixed size. A neural network is just a spicy matrix with real numbers.

This also seems to suggest the author thinks "bigger = better", which is just false. The whole field would probably be much easier if it were true, but you learn this im ML 101, just making the matrix bigger can reduce accuracy.

Neural networks are such an unfortunate name. They kinda look like a layered network and propagation-backpropagation kinda might give you "neurons firing" vibes, so scientists named it like that; only for dipshit pundits to immediately go "neuron means brain means machine thinks!!!" years later...

Could we be witnessing the emergence of a new kind of singularity, where the boundaries between human and machine cognition start to blur and dissolve?

No.

Okay, let's see...

first paragraph: Unfolding as some cosmic story, the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have given rise to large language models (LLMs) with unprecedented accuracy, fluency and utility. It's almost as if there's a cognitive big bang exploding into our human universe.

Nope, no, nonono, you're full of shit and I refuse to read the rest. Good day sir. I said good day!

My first response would be "that's a rather shite superpower then, innit?"

I'm sorry, even putting aside that he absolutely could not, being able to kill anyone in hand-to-hand combat is extremely useless as far as superpowers go. Like, in what circumstances would you want to do that? You're going to hit the streets and fight crime like Batman? You're just gonna get shot mate. Or are you just going to crack the skulls of your 15 coworkers on openspace? Congratulations, you're now in maxsec prison where you're gonna act tough until you get shanked by 20 people, since your "superpower" doesn't include stabbing damage immunity.