Open post Kaiyalai @Kaiyalai@friendsofdesoto.social · 5mo ago Replying to @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io Sooooo have you ever felt really insecure because a group of people wanted you around for no clear reason other than they just like your company and that made you realize that you're 41 and you've never been welcomed into a friend group without heavy expectations and thats so tragic you just cry? Or that every friend group you've ever been part of has had you as the organizational hub, without which it all falls apart, which has instilled in you the deep-seated belief that if you don't desperately work to hold every non-romantic relationship you've ever had, they'll fall apart immediately? No? Just me? Okay. @Impossible_PhD painfully empathizing with you
Open post Kaiyalai @Kaiyalai@friendsofdesoto.social · 41mo ago Replying to @winload_exe@wetdry.world @mae@wetdry.world reminder (per @glitch@meow.social): @winload_exe@wetdry.world @mae@wetdry.world @glitch@meow.social who even does this? It’s utterly nonsensical.
Open post Kaiyalai @Kaiyalai@friendsofdesoto.social · 5mo ago Replying to @theogrin@chaosfem.tw <p>Somehow, learning that the guy who tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house is a Yudkowskian disciple is simultaneously unsurprising and yet brings a lot of things into focus I wasn't expecting.</p><p>It makes <em>sense</em>, but I had to blink twice and go 'oh, of course the guy's one of those folks who treats <em>Paperclips</em> like holy scripture.'</p><p>(Go, play, it's fun. But don't think it's going to turn real. <a href="https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">decisionproblem.com/paperclips</span><span class="invisible">/index2.html</span></a> )</p><p>Ultimately <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> doomerism, at least of the Yudkowskian, Roko's-Basilisk style, is the same thing as AI <em>optimism</em>, just approaching it from the opposite direction. A being capable of building the Torment Nexus must, first, be <em>smart enough</em> to build the Torment Nexus, and that's not about to happen with the present situation. A stochastic parrot the size of the Sun is still not going to be able to reason.</p> @theogrin a disciple of what?
Open post Kaiyalai @Kaiyalai@friendsofdesoto.social · 5mo ago Replying to @theogrin@chaosfem.tw @Kaiyalai Eliezer Yudkowsky is a guy who's convinced that AGI, once it comes about (and he is convinced that it will happen given enough processing power), can either be a God or a Devil, and that the latter is much more likely. (He wrote a fanfic once. It's pretty good, but one lynchpin, a functionally necessary part of the resolution, would work wonderfully in a magical world and not so much elsewhere.) It's not so much that LessWrong and its affiliated groups are cults, but that they have very cult-like tendencies. If you remember that thing about Zizians from the last few years, that's from where they sprang. @theogrin …I have no clue what Zizians are, either. Well, not unless they’re just huge fans of the song “Waltz for Zizi” composed by Yoko Kano and played by the Seatbelts for the Cowboy Bebop OST. But that seems unlikely.
Open post Kaiyalai @Kaiyalai@friendsofdesoto.social · 5mo ago Replying to @theogrin@chaosfem.tw <p>Dear Mr. Carney:</p><p>If you truly believed that the price of gas would fall due to you reducing the taxes on energy corporations, then your much-vaunted financial acumen has been <em>wildly</em> oversold.</p><p>The fossil fuel groups have not been a free market for as long as I've been alive: they have been an oligarchy working in lockstep with one another to maximize their profits while harming the planet and everyone else out there. They will not allow one cent to slip through their greasy fingers; they will wring the necks of the consumer, and here you just keep going on fucking that chicken.</p><p>And gods damn everyone who fell for your 'the price of gas will go down' bullshit. Either you believed it or you sold Canada a lie, and either way, that doesn't make you a fit PM.</p><p><a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>canpoli</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/carney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carney</span></a> <a href="https://chaosfem.tw/tags/fuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fuel</span></a></p> @theogrin who was it he’d been running against, again?