Reminds me a lot of the pro cryptocurrency people who drove by r/buttcoin to loudly claim that complaints about crypto being shit were wrong, but they never actually explained what was wrong.

Felt very ‘trump just says wrong in the mic’, not an attempt to reason or explain, but to dominate.

Also not logged into reddit on my phone, and love the ‘you now need to use our app’ wall you can no longer get rid off.

Time to tell Yud his german sucks, and to stop threatening KDE people.

(Im making a joke out of it here, but to be clear I have no reason to think he made up the death threat, and I dont think those sort of messages are acceptable. The seemingly bad German can just be explained away by gerard thinking because kde is a project with a lot of ties to Germany everyone who is active in it understands German).

Wtf.

E: So my german is bad, like bad bad, but I feel like it should be ‘dir’ and not ‘dich’ in this case for some reason. Is it just me? Anyway saying that all in German is pretty weird anyway. (In addition to death threats not being ok).

How the fuck is that not a mature question? What a childish way to police your own comment section. Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

There also isnt a big company behind the calculator ran by some fragile egos who will change the results when they get it in their heads that dividing is now woke.

Or who think they are funny so it rounds 68 up to 69.

I got a ‘what belongs on feet’ one a while back with images of shoes but also hammers.

An ai generated site, r/sneerclub really went downhill

Of course he will not back down, that would mean admitting he made tossing grenades at each other mandatory.

Also the idea that I could just pretend to do my job while being at the gym. I would be on unemployment so fast.

Steelmanning the wallet inspector.

We created the panopticon just to prevent model collapse.

Yeah, as I have mentioned a few times before here I used to read their online H+ magazine a bit, and it was odd, a mix of science and woo, and they published a lot of articles. Until the moment there was one article about how transhumanism must make sure that it also helps the poor, that article was quickly removed (so quickly it wasn’t archived, it was however still in my rss feed which is how I read it). After that article the amount of articles published dropped to nothing. (I always assumed the editor was fired over that or something, I think he himself also added to that article).

Ben Goertzel also regularly wrote for H+ mag. A name that shouldn’t be totally unfamiliar to people who know things about transhumanism, and Ben is into PSI now. (Or considering the tone of some of the articles, he prob always was).

(Yes, I keep writing this same comment here over and over as I seem to be one of the few people who read the magazine at the time who also posts here)

E: looks like H+mag deleted their whole website. (guess being immortal is only for the rich, and not information). But look at this old LW post I found re Goertzel and PSI.

And via the comments: The solution of the whole ‘is PSI real’ problem? Why did you ask (Robin Hanson) it is betting of course.

Tossing a lot of salt into the cooling fans helps to silence the daemons yes.

A critical piece on EA from somebody who actually lives in one of the poorest places in the world.

Somewhere in 2021, I contacted about a hundred people (mostly individuals) who identify as effective altruists, asking them not for money, but for social media posts …

… one wrote back saying, “I usually share projects that have been vetted by Givewell or a similar organization….Why do you think your project is more effective compared to all the others?”

All that over a social media post.

H+ also brings in the Mores, who are behind humanity+.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Vita-More and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_More

Not concerning at all.

Fyi, I blocked him a while back. Didnt like his whole ‘im the reasonable centrist’ bit while making blocklists of anti ai people.

Yeah im just wondering why they tried it at all. Feels like the lidl branching into selling luxury cars to make an extreme example.

Arent like the margin increases on targeted ads already pretty bad? I don’t think running expensive chatbots (which then can be messed with by the people you are trying to reach, driving up the costs even more) are going to really provide value for the advertisement world.

is less of a cult than it is a cult factory.

Cult incubator. Use the correct Silicon Valley terms please.

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What is that? That’s a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock’s production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

Mein Gott.