[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 22 points 2 days ago

Hey, genetics Lemmy, dumb math question: Suppose that Cheliax, a Lawful Evil country directly ruled by Hell, is running a state eugenics program and gets their hands on a male interdimensional traveler with roughly +4.25 s.d. IQ (18.5 Intelligence). How much raw demon pussy could the traveler hit before the readers start suspecting he's my self insert even though of course it isn't? (BTW I'm way smarter than that in case any Hellions are listening)

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago

DEEZ nuts!

David
Eugine
Émile
Ziz is nuts.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago

Curtis Yarvin goes to prison. He has two cellmates. He asks them why they're there. "I helped Trump destroy the country", one of them replies. "Well I'm here because Trump didn't destroy the country", Yarvin retorts. They turn to the third man, who says: "I am Donald Trump."

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 25 points 6 months ago

Every nazi got the black indigenous latinx disabled nonbinary trans lesbian sock puppet roleplay account that astroturfs in favor of conservative and fascist policies.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 28 points 7 months ago

I feel like calling it race pseudoscience inadvertently suggests the existence of legitimate race science.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We probably live in a simulation with the purpose of producing the best anime. This is why we are living in an age with so much anime and with so many people who are interested in anime. The anime maximizing AI is simulating all kinds of scenarios from abiogenesis to a prolific anime industry. Most possible scenarios of life evolving from its first forms would not lead to the development of an anime industry, which is why it would be improbable for us to exist in a world with anime, if not for the fact that the simulated scenarios without anime in them are dropped and not simulated further.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 29 points 9 months ago

Ooh, pants-on-head stupid semantics nonsense detected.

First, the government needs to be run top-down from the Oval Office. This is why we call it the “executive” branch. “Executive” is a literal synonym of “monarchical”—from “mono,” meaning “one,” and “archy,” meaning “regime.” “Autocratic” is fine too. The “executive branch” is the “autocratic branch,” or should be if English is English. Libs: if these words don’t mean what they mean, what do they mean?

Executive, as in pertaining to execution. Executing the the duties of a government as defined by legislation. Where the fuck did Curtsy get the impression that "executive" is somehow synonymous with "monarchical"? Did he mix it up with "exclusive"? Even corporations often have multiple executives with different roles.

Mr. Thiel you have so much fucking money couldn't you afford a fascist philosopher king who is more intelligent than this guy who thinks an "executioner" is a guy that makes you a dictator?

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 32 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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