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

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.

It's actually spelt "less, wrong" as those are two main reactions any time you see a post there.

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.

None of this tomfoolery would matter if it weren’t for the tech billionaires.

This is going to be the subheading in future history books talking about the XXI century.

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.

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.