[-] aio@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

decision theory is when there's a box with money but if you take the box it doesn't have money

[-] aio@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

Hochman correctly deduces that R9PRESENTATIONALism originated in the 18th century, but fails to realize that the roots of this movement actually lie with the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society which was supposedly suppressed by edict in 1784 but has in fact maintained a shadowy existence influencing politics up to the present day.

[-] aio@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As we know, the critical age for a boy genius is somewhere from 11 (Harry Potter) to 15 (Paul Atreides), so the gene-enhanced baby ought to have a fair shot after a few months or so.

[-] aio@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Zizians believe in IQ, that animals are ethically equivalent to humans, that all people contain exactly two personality cores corresponding to the two hemispheres of their brains, that every personality core is either intrinsically good or intrinsically evil and less than 5% are good. They believe in violence as a form of mutually assured destruction: you should always escalate every conflict to the maximum in order to dissuade hypothetical agents from blackmailing you. And the stuff about Skynet.

I think to understand properly it should be recognized that while the personality-core stuff is out of left field, all of the other beliefs are pretty much just logical conclusions of mainstream rationalist thought. For instance Yudkowsky has to repeatedly explain that he's not in favor of violence (except when he's advocating for bombing data centers) precisely because it's really easy to reach that conclusion from what he's written. The Zizians mainly differ by reaching that logical conclusion and being willing to act on it.

[-] aio@awful.systems 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

“The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

- Designer of sunken ship

[-] aio@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

the computational cost of operating over a matrix is always going to be convex relative to its size

This makes no sense - "convex" doesn't mean fast-growing. For instance a constant function is convex.

[-] aio@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago
[-] aio@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

Yudkowskian Probability Theory

what a throwback

[-] aio@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

okay but if they hadn't done that we wouldn't have gotten this work of art

[-] aio@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

why tf can't she say the word "racist"? like is it supposed to be a dogwhistle insinuating similarity between "racist" and "leftist"??

[-] aio@awful.systems 48 points 1 year ago

I don't want to come and help "balance out" someone who thinks that using they/them pronouns is worse than committing genocide.

Does anyone really think this, or are you just using hyperbole?

Not hyperbole. Hanania, Manifest promoted speaker, wrote "Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?" in May 2022.

I just can't, it's like that one scene from Austin Powers.

[-] aio@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Isn't it like not real money? Or have they changed that

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