Putting cream in my carbonara to see how my 8K 120Hz Nonna reacts

Well unfortunately it’s not diluted enough to be homeopathic, so it’s just off³ broadway

My current iteration of the etymology is that “dath ilani” anagrams to “HD Italian”. As in, the dath ilani are an idealised version of Italians, making dath ilan a utopian version of Italy.

FWIW my understanding is the “Off”-ness is just decreasing theatre size, but gets (mis)construed as less prestige/fame/quality etc. Fame is probably fine for construing, but prestige/quality is orthogonal. Like you could conceivably have absolute theatre mega stars do an epoch-defining production in an intimate 50-seat theatre or something, and that would still be “Off-off-broadway”.

OH that Jack Thompson. Yeah I remember now. Man, on one hand, his actions were at best misguided and at worst totally insane. On the other hand, IMO we wouldn’t know about him if video game people were by any measure calm or reasonable.

I don’t know who Jack Thompson is, so just pretend that I came up with some incredible, witty interleaving of references to waiting for godot, the torment nexus meme, and Jack Thompson

The one that includes this:

So I responded in the SL4 (which for the life of me I can’t dig up) & went to the trouble of emailing Yudkowski directly, explaining that 1) no I didn’t write about your life but 2) if you happen to be in NYC, I’d love it if he’d attend the play. I also attached a copy of the script in the email 7/x

(which is way more good faith than Yud deserves, btw)

I thought “yeah, in Yud’s position […]

Best stop this thinking before you suffer the same levels of delusion of reference and/or grandeur.

Satire warning!!! 🚨🚨🚨 You have been warned!!!

Some great tips for using ChatGPT to stop being a “Brain only” person to a fully optimised person!

Well you would because, like Yud, you jumped to your own conclusions without actually reading the fucking article.

it would be very funny if Rocco Basilico’s legacy was that his name bore resemblance to Roko Basilisk and nothing else

It is well known that the Marketplace Of Ideas is Zero Sum

easter egg: contains a link to sneersub, specifically this

Uh I think we are very quickly and dangerously approaching Dawkinsian Meme Theory

Tech take from the near future: Podcast life begins at conception i.e. the instant one thinks the inside thoughts should be outside

The Yude iabieds

(Eliezer used a new penname for the story).

Stop trying to make dath ilan happen, Yud.

HJPEV

I didn’t what this meant initially. “HJP” pointed me toward “harry james potter” but I couldn’t figure out “EV,” so ofc my gutter brain decided this was “Handjob Penis Envy Vagina”. But no, it’s just “HJP Evans Verres”, Verres being HJPEV’s adopted dad.

so don’t give Eliezer too much credit

He has a credit score of 250 from this (imagine me holding two thumbs up at myself) ratings agency.

I don’t know how he came up with the name

Yeah his naming is wack. I’m guessing that Yud went with “Verres” for HJP’s nonbiodad because it’s close to “veritas”, the latin word for truth. But searching “verres” gives the latin word for boar, lol. And also Gaius Verres, a notoriously bad magistrate according to wikipedia.

Thanks for the lore, and sorry that you had to ingest all that at some point.

Like a lot of sci-fi that I will comment on without having read, that sounds like a Dune ripoff (that I also have not read). Except, rather than “ok we tried the whole AI thing and it turned out bad”, Yud is saying “my world is smarter because they predicted AI would be bad, so they just didn’t try it, neener neener neener!”

Also, iterating on the name origins of “dath ilan,” as I’ve said before, it’s an anagram of Thailand. But I have a new hypothesis. It’s formed from “Death Island” minus the letters “ESD”. What could this mean!!! Electrostatic discharge? “Eek, Small Dragon?” “Eliezer Sudden Death?” The abyss pondering continues…

did you hear about Yudoslavia? They have this Eight GPU policy, if a household is about to have another GPU and they find it can’t run Crysis at max settings at 60fps, they leave it outside for the wolves. But this might just be Yudophobic propaganda

As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with eight wives…