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EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 51 seconds ago

Putting the EA in sealion

Moldy's famous now! yaaaaaay by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

Hooray, I'm glad that when I inevitably start seeing a therapist again, I can finally talk about all this shit without needing a ton of primer.

broken containment warning by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 4 weeks ago

a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos

Is this… the perfect grift?

Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism" by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 60 points 3 months ago

NBC/the media really killing it with painting him as a self-radicalised spook.

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In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselves (static1.squarespace.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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No, intelligence is not like height by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 31 points 7 months ago

Science: “our current understanding of genetics leads us to believe IQ is not heritable”.

This fucking guy: “IQ is heritable and you just haven’t proved it yet. Citation: I belong to a race with good genetics, unlike you”

No, intelligence is not like height by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 33 points 7 months ago

Second, is the more common "IQ isn't intelligence" trick. Sure, the measure doesn't encompass everything that is making intelligence, but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ.

Any time you see something like this, what it’s really saying is:

IQ is intelligence to me and nothing you say can dissuade me. I just have a high enough IQ to write a disclaimer for plausible deniability.

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Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage (www.euronews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

See what’s really fun here is that once again the libertarians are blissfully unaware of their natural predator: bears.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)

submitted 8 months ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

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TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's a lot of words about what is or isn't a reliable source from one who doesn't seem to know what a reliable source is. For a person of these beliefs, it is not surprising at all that their criteria seem to be:

anything that agrees with them is reliable
anything David Gerard considers unreliable is reliable because David Gerard is a big meanie and won't include citations to HBD articles, uwu
anything that David Gerard or any friendly associate of David Gerard publishes is UNreliable, again because he is a meanie; see above, uwu

Dawg, maybe you need to step back from this all. As Voltaire once said, reality has a well-known liberal bias. Your beliefs are probably just counter to reality, and the corpus of data is not in your favour.

rationalists discuss: does testosterone make you stupid? by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 29 points 8 months ago

my new light novel: that time I biohacked myself to become smarter by taking testosterone suppressants and woke up the next day as a doomed villainess

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The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill (www.buzzsprout.com)

submitted 11 months ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success. by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 36 points 1 year ago

The continuation of the stray cats thing:

One of these cats gave me fleas so I will no longer engage in petting stray cats

lol

Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I go to school and take “Forbidden Courses” I BETTER be coming out with necromancy and demon summoning. Otherwise we gonna fight.

in case you wondered when Grimes was going to go full Nazi by swlabr in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 43 points 1 year ago

She’s 35 and her sum total understanding of culture and race has lead to this. I think she has been effectively a Nazi from way back.

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Ex-OpenAI board member Tasha McCauley is deep state because she married Joseph Gordon-Levitt (www.lesswrong.com)

submitted 1 year ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.

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Roko’s Basilisk gets a shoutout on CONAF, hypothetically dooming many unsuspecting listeners to… nothing, basically. (www.earwolf.com)

submitted 2 years ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.