In the ancestral environment, infection was a top killer. Today it’s a rounding error. Our immune systems are therefore set by evolution to be far too sensitive for the modern environment.

Bro what. We keep producing stronger bacteria.

Somehow I’m hoping that this is the usual eugenics rather than abject stupidity.

No.

What the hell kind of prompt is this oh my god. I’m getting bored just contemplating the idea of trying to think up a story.

I’m not going near your solid gold mansion by the way, that’s a death trap!

If I have a billion trillion dollars but 20% of the population hates me, but I get to live in a giant solid gold mansion with an army of servants keeping the 20% away from me, have I really failed?

I don’t know, you tell me.

girl i think you need a better agent

This number was first proposed in the 1990s by Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.[3] By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.

oh okay

Also very disappointed to learn that Ian Pace, a pianist I admired, has been oneshotted by social media and gone down the racist transphobe 24 hour tweeting monster chute.

I love it when Americans get to find out that being a big racist is actually illegal in most of Europe.

this blog post is so badass

My favourite error, and it appears repeatedly, is that instead of an object passing from one character to another, a copy of the object suddenly finds itself in the second person’s hands. It is shockingly bad at portraying any kind of action! It’s never going to get better!

As usual this sort of message actually makes me worried about what she might do to herself. :(

I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point

lmao no you don’t

Oh boy, this is the most straightforwardly delulu lesswrong post I’ve ever seen.

If you see issues in the YouTube video, rest assured that those issues survived even more than two generation attempts.

lol

I mean I’m more than happy to extend grace to randos, but if you’re doing journalism, come on. He’s not just a guy with opinions! He’s a leading far right intellectual!

His Wikipedia intro tells you more than enough with no “allegedly” in sight.

Urbit’s original creator, Curtis Yarvin, has reportedly espoused some extreme beliefs

bro why do you write like this

Though note that it’s a weird curriculum in a few different directions, rather than being uniformly right-wing—e.g. it has some Lacan-inspired stuff, some hippie-inspired stuff on beliefs as emotional strategies, a bunch of rationalist writing, etc.

Ah, got it. It’s not all right wing, there’s also stupid cryptofascist shitheadery.

Um, okay, I know coiners have no shortage of incompetence but this bug sounds an awful lot like malice.

(there’s actually one other dynamic, in which they all know someone will lose, and are just hoping it isn’t them, but that’s another post)

Uh huh.

“Every time that humanity has traded off its liberty for safety, it’s been a long-term net loss”

oh has it now. the spirit of humanity’s been in decline since we’ve eroded workers’ freedom to breathe that good asbestos air and lose their hand in the hand mauling machine, yeah?