First comment: “the world is bottlenecked by people who just don’t get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it”

No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.

wait this isn’t a joke this is a yc funded startup

Ugh. Hank Green just posted a 1-hour interview with Nate Soares about That Book. I’m halfway through on 2x speed and so far zero skepticism of That Book’s ridiculous premises. I know it’s not his field but I still expected a bit more from Hank.

A YouTube comment says it better than I could:

Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.

I can understand being concerned about the problems with the technology that exist now, but hyper-fixating on an unfalsifiable existential threat is stupid as it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.

Nothing screams “celebration of creativity” like a nice heaping tablespoon of AI slop images.

Foxboron (arch maintainer dude) seems pretty good about rejecting fascism, he’s in the framework thread linked from the post above expressing discontent.

I just wanted to lob a sneer at this article fawning over Sora 2: https://spyglass.org/soras-slop-hits-different/

And again, a lot of this stuff — slop or not — is funny. Really, truly funny. Sora is scaling comedy in a way that we’ve never seen.

did this motherfucker just try to say “scaling comedy”? If you ever wondered why techbros are so unfunny, here’s something to point at.

ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes

Has anything interesting happened since Yarvis Curtin took the reigns of Tlon?

So this looks and sounds 100% AI generated, but

Possible performance idea: A “kata of doubt,” mixing martial arts stances with expressions of deep confusion.

might be the first time AI slop made me laugh (not out loud, but still)

getting 10:1 ratioed by my own profile picture would probably make me leave civilization and become an ascetic

This role is responsible for the creation of a virtual AI Centre of Excellence that will drive the creation of an Enterprise-wide Autonomous AI platform. The platform will connect to all Ice Cream technology solutions providing an AI capability that can provide [blah blah blah…]

it’s satire right? brilliantly placed satire by a disgruntled hiring manager having one last laugh out the door right? no one would seriously write this right?

it’s basically yet another form of Pascal’s wager (which is a dumb argument)

ok chatgpt, thanks for the tips

The ad sounded extremely … off. The voices had the shitty mic scratchiness that I’d come to expect from a fresh 2010 YouTuber. The scene was abysmally acted, sounding like if someone with zero training was told to “speak with emotion”… wait is it autoplag?

holy fuck

Interesting study, but I am skeptical that this result applies to the general population (without the “convicted” qualifier).

If non-whites are more violently criminal than whites, then we can expect them to be imprisoned earlier in life for any violent crime, of which pedophilia will be a small subset.

So we have more convicted white paedos because … the coloreds do more crimes??! what in the actual fuck did I just read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139636

will no one think of the poor baby exec who makes 8 figures? how could they be so mean to him??

as a wannabe science/mathtist I totally feel the pain of realizing that I will probably never have any good, original ideas unless I actually dedicate my life to studying the works of people that actually had good, original ideas.

In these people, I see a version of me that didn’t tell myself that all my stupid theories of the universe and consciousness are total unfalsifiable wastes of time. It’s a type of “high-iq” psychosis.

Holy FUCKING shit this cannot be real. No. He could not have written this.

My estimation of SBF as a wretch just fuckin plummeted.

More like “People want things and hurt if they don’t get them. Also, look at me saying things like utility function! Function is math! Math is smart. I am smart! Isn’t that so cool?”