As a physicist, this quote got me so mad I wrote an excessively detailed debunking a while back. It’s staggeringly wrong.
Kudos for the effortpost. My 5-second simpleton objection went something like
YEA BECAUSE WEBCAMS COME WITH DENSITY SENSORS INCLUDED RIGHT?
A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would generate the world’s most beautiful camgirl, like a photoshop that’s been photoshopped, and take over OnlyFans to raise money to wedgie rationalists, just don’t look too closely at the fingers or teeth
I’m trying to find the twitter post where someone deepfakes eliezer’s voice into saying full speed ahead on AI development, we need embodied catgirls pronto.
now that’s a positive contribution to the space
this is fantastic! if you’ve ever got another one of these in you, feel free to tag it NSFW and post it here or on MoreWrite depending on what feels right. I live to see yud get destroyed in slow motion by real expertise
I’ve more than once been tempted to write Everything the Sequences Get Wrong about Quantum Mechanics, but the challenge is doing so in a way that doesn’t just amount to teaching a whole course in quantum mechanics. The short-short version is that it’s lazy, superficial takes on top of cult shit — Yud trying to convince the reader that the physics profession is broken and his way is superior.
I’d be happy to contribute what CS material I can to a multidisciplinary effort to prove that Yud’s lazy, superficial takes and cult shit are universal
I got as far as this blog post that I shared in the first days of new!SneerClub, but that was only a first stab.
The word “Einstein” appears no less than eight times in this story.
Bringing up Hendrix every ten sentences doesn’t make you an amazing guitarist either.
I am saving this to read later, but having eugenics and IQ in the very first sentence makes it look especially promising.
Albert Einstein, himself, still lived and still made approximately the same discoveries, but his work no longer seems exceptional
It’s hard to grasp how grotesquely stupid a sentence this is.
