Ah, finally, a paper article to pin to my Roko’s basilisk/David Gerard/X Æ A-Xii red yarn corkboard

Oh yes thanks for the reminder.

quirk-washing TREACLES

I can’t wait to be quirk-washed, I’m ready to hang up my pick-me hat and let the new yorker do the work for me

This isn't a vote either way but my pitch for a name is just "Stubsack"

Michelle Gansle, chief data and analytics officer for McDonald’s, had bragged that her company had used AI to help them stop $50 million in fraud in a single month.

AI caught the motherfucking hamburgler?!?!?!

I hate this phrase but this is “saying the quiet part out loud” in action.

In the "Rationalist Apologetic Overtures" skill tree we got:

• Denying wrongdoing/incorrectness (cantrip)
• Accusing the other side of bad faith (cantrip)
• Mentioning own IQ (cantrip)
• Non apology (1st level) (e.g. I'm sorry you feel that way)
• Empty apology (3rd level)
• Insincere apology (5th level)
• Acknowledgement of individual experience outside of one's own (7th level)
• Admission of wrongdoing/incorrectness (9th level)
• Genuine guilt (11th level)
• Actual complete apology (13th level)
• Admitting the other person is right (15th level)

This has major “because of the implication” energy.

For my research, the primary speedups from AI come from using chatGPT to speed up coding a bit and helping to write bureaucratic applications.

Lmfao

I just read the post about 0 and 1 being invalid probabilities. Here’s my best attempt at interpreting it as a joke: This is clearly yud’s attempt at creating a mathematical trollpost using only words.

But yeah as someone with a (honestly atrophied) degree in mathematics I am struggling to figure out the post. Whatever he’s doing, he’s not performing mathematics; at best it is sophistry. Honestly it makes me sad that he wrote it at all and that people read it and agreed with it.

Reading it is like going to a restaurant, seeing “bowl of plain rice” on the menu, ordering it, and getting served an old boot full of glitter and sawdust. Seeing the comment section and seeing people that think yud is smart or correct about anything is reading the yelp reviews later for the restaurant and seeing people talk about how they’ve never tried rice before having it at the restaurant, and that it was really good and that now when they go to other restaurants with rice it’s never the real thing and they shouldn’t be trusted.

For actually interesting contrarian maths, go watch some Norman Wildberger videos or something.

SBF: What if we kissed in the uncanny valley 😳😳😳

- These docs in a nutshell

I had 100% certainty that 53 was prime when I was 12. Does that mean I was smarter than Yud back then? (I may have become more stupid since learning about LW)