a fairly sizable chunk of everything, generally.

“we set up a pocket universe for our toy robot to run in, looped it a few billions times, and you wouldn’t believe what ways it found to fuck with the rules! we’re ever so shocked! :o” is a going staple in ML agent research for years now, these people are a parody upon themselves

remember that “agents in a physics sim” shit a few years ago (both early goog and openai, I think)? that strain of nonsense

every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

I don't know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn't trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

what I appreciate (inasfar as something to laugh at) is that when this is pointed out they double down like it's their life savings riding on the game

“Look, all I’m saying is that Scientology managed to scale massively, both in members and funding! There’s obviously something there that we can learn from!”

One of the thonkleaders in the group of people this sub is about

my near-completely data-less guess: frozen in 2020 among many other things that year that had sudden stoppages, no clear reason to get unfrozen after that, and then when their ties and batshit ideas got a bit too popular recently it became easy to drop them like a rock

Ah but we all know that plato’s cave is an allegory about the shadows cast by the basilisk upon all our mental theaters

(That twitter clip was amazingly unhinged, I wonder what the full context was)

I'd watch this livestream

Maybe he’s having an Interaction with The Law and finding out that it isn’t in fact some perfectly rational sphere of uniform distribution but is in fact made of (gasp, horror, revulsion) human experience

He strikes me as exactly the kind of person that’d vaguepost tangentially instead of saying “hmm well fuck, I’m getting sued”. At least until waaaaaay down the line

(this is conjecture, of course, just to be clear)

it is :chefskiss: exquisite that Thiel, of all the lot of them, is a snitch to usgov[0]

As a CHS, Thiel was assigned a code name and an internal serial number to track his reporting. The information he passed on about foreign contacts and Silicon Valley intrigue was reviewed

gotta wonder how many of the progenitors of the absurd are currently squirming uncomfortably. I hope it's a lot of them

[0] - funny in the "would be a self-contradiction against prior statements" way, but as usual all that stuff is windowdressing and the real mission is his personal gain

even though TREACLES was right there

I still wish there were a U in there somewhere, because ARSECULT