[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

LessWrong has swallowed the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" hook, line and sinker, so yeah, zero crank filter.

https://awful.systems/post/1246648

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

The description of "The questions ChatGPT shouldn't answer" doesn't seem to go with the text. Did you mean to link something else?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

Or they deliberately named things like the Lance of Longinus in order to fulfill a prophecy, or make it look like a prophecy was being fulfilled.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

There's a "critique of functional decision theory"... which turns out to be a blog post on LessWrong... by "wdmacaskill"? That MacAskill?!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

If you want to read Yudkowsky's explanation for why he doesn't spend more effort on academia, it's here.

spoiler alert: the grapes were totally sour

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

And now I envy the me of five minutes ago.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

"Solomonoff induction" is the string of mouth noises that Rationalists make when they want to justify their preconceived notion as the "simplest" possibility, by burying all the tacit assumptions that actual experience would let them recognize.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

That hat could only work with New Year's Eve glasses from a year with "00".

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for taking on that task (I linked to your post to provide further details).

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

When I was an undergrad at MIT, I knew (not terribly well) the people who invited him to "debate" Time Cube there. He came to a low-key student party; someone tried to teach him the game of go because, you know, squares. The whole thing seemed funny at first and then vaguely mean-spirited and exploitative, so I blew off the "debate" itself. What sticks with me most after all these years are the vibes. He was genuinely happy to be there, a little perplexed and stand-offish among all the college kids... and on some level beneath that, wounded and angry.

Of the odd people in our orbit, Gene Ray was much less genial than Love 22, the street entertainer/numerologist from Key West who showed up for baseball games and who delighted in showing off his passport, which gave his legal name as "LOVE XXII". The Roman numerals meant that he was royalty in Europe, he'd say.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago

Much appreciated. This isn't the first time that archive.ph has gone all GOTO 10 about clicking squares, but I don't know what the cause might be.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is why it's better just to say mind blown guy having his mind blown.gif

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