also, just ito "things to pick by which to point out dirtrag as a Shining Beacon", it's pretty fucking out there

probably but it isn't one I've come across (in this form), thus my surprise

"embracing cognitive bias" in the "hell yeah I'm down for quadrupling stakes! BRING OUT THE ADDERALL*" sense

(* otherwhere it'd be blackjack, hookers, and blow. but these nerds would get thrown out of such smokey rooms fairly immediately - if they ever even got in)

5 posts and not a single sneer among them. dry out there today.

it really fucking was

literal fucking neonazi identifiers in post history, comes into our house, and then claims us to act like nazis. clever!

because I build things (which entails signing up for a service that someone else built)

fucking THIS

I am so immensely fucking tired of seeing "I built an AI to do $x" posts that all fucking reduce to 1) "I strapped a custom input to the openai api (whose inputs and execution I can't control nor reproduce reliably. I am very smart.)", 2) a bad low-scope shitty-amounts-of-training hyperspecific toy model that solves only their exact 5 requirements (and basically nothing else, so if you even squint at it it'll fall apart)

basilisk save us from the moronicity

nytpitchbot: first we had breadtube, now this ~~wingnut~~ thought leader wants to make people aware of breadsexuals

I thought everyone knew that P(doom) was the calculation of whether there'll be a doom port, and that it is a societal given that it's 100%

fucking rats, out of touch once again

it feels like the obscurantism is a stolen magician's trick? keep people too misdirected with all the weird shit and they might not notice the other parts that a lot of people might find themselves objecting to (if it were clearly laid out at first)

I actually really liked this reply purely on the fact that it walked a different avenue of response

Because yeah indeed, under the lens of raw naïve implementation, the utter breadth of scope involved in basically anything is so significantly beyond useful (or even tenuous) human comprehension it’s staggering

We are, notably, remarkably competent at abstraction[0], and this goes a hell of a long way in affordance but it’s also not an answer

I’ll probably edit this later to flesh the post out a bit, because I’m feeling bad at words rn

[0] - this ties in with the “lossy at scale” post I need to get to writing (soon.gif)

slight queasiness like a reverse body high, tinged with experience of time distortion ("the fuck? since 2000?! WHY") and dissociation

some memory loss about the experience as well, with any recall about the details of the visions entirely vacant from my mind. it's like seeing the machine elves but my brain didn't want to remember

Hmm branding opportunity, “unwanted altruism”