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8·20 hours agoWell they should. I’m not giving them credit for investing in vaporware nuclear plants when the ostensible plan is to waste all the power on glue pizza recipes.
man, fuck this timeline… what are we even doing
How about people here? When did you realize people are real?
still difficult for me, I think it’s part of my flavor of autism
*trying desperately not to say the thing* what if AI could automatically… round out… spelling
imagine how they could have monetized it
on a side note a lot of how I think about merit was built up by reading and rereading fooled by randomness as a teenager. I won’t endorse it because that was a long time ago and the author is a narcissist, but maybe other people have thoughts on it? I would love to hear some discussion of it
There is such unbelievable faith in men who have continually failed to live up to it — an indomitable belief that this much money couldn’t be wrong, and that the people running these companies are anything other than selfish opportunists that will say what they need to as a means of getting what they want, and that they got there not through a combination of privilege, luck and connections, but through some sort of superior intellect and guile.
this is one of the most enduring, widespread and astonishing tendencies I see in people: they need to believe that the famous, wealthy or powerful have positive qualities. they enjoy inhabiting this fantasy; often doing so is an activity, one that can lead into a parasocial connection.
trump and musk obviously benefit from this, but liberals watching the velvet glove of snl or a late night show stroke a celebrity indulge in the fantasy as well. many of the most highly regarded items of liberal media are of this type; see Sorkin’s career, or the ultimately lovable conservative dad figure of 30 rock.
to be honest, I thought Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency would root out this tendency in people, but I was very wrong. tens of millions of people watched this man bleat out his every thought all day on twitter, including almost the entire media class, and nearly none of them seem to have permanently learned what that said about the relationship between success and merit.
I remember he went on julia galef’s podcast to talk about the MUH and she was like “but what does that mean” and simple questions like that and he flailed, it was painful to hear
lol fandom could have been even worse
guy who totally gets what these words mean: “an llm simply encodes the semantics into the vectors”
conservative who supports homeless shelters, soup kitchens, nature preserves, libraries, and children’s playgrounds for accelerationist reasons
my first thought reading this was that you meant it could be a deterrent to burglars. then I imagined a pair of increasingly nervous burglars timing his erections and freaking out as it hit 179 minutes. “we gotta bail man, that’s longer than the average 18 year old”
what is the utility of 179 minutes of night-time erections
there’s a similarity in the sense that they’re both ‘content free.’ pagerank didn’t care about what was on your site, only what your page linked to and what pages linked to you
(past tense bc it’s unclear to me whether Google even uses pagerank at this point)
they diverge pretty significantly in one way: pagerank is an algorithm motivated by pragmatic simplifications. discarding the information of content when ranking sites is only something you would do because using content is really hard. you can take the statistical approach to semantics in the same spirit, but you don’t have to… ai true believers are necessarily treating the maxim I referred to as a philosophical claim, something that addresses the ground truth of what words are
it’s happening omg. check back in five years
hang on the clear meaning of “it may be difficult to anticipate the value of money in a post AGI world” is “there will be an infinite supply of robot slaves who can do anything.” what’s this about redistribution of capital
you guys aren’t gonna like to hear this, but I love the taste of boot. I love to lick every inch of the boot. god yes, every inch has to be glistening and wet. I have to make sure to get all of the gravel out of the treads. the point is I’m thorough. anyway none of you understand normal people
you know a company is very serious when it uses game balance terminology to describe its HR practices. “I’m sorry, we’re going to have to nerf your salary”
“spoons and katanas” has got to be the most baby brained analogy. are you a child
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCom_scandal