people who think ‘it kinda works’ is the standard to aim for

I swear that this is a form of AI psychosis or something because the attitude is suddenly ubiquitous among the AI obsessed.

Wasn’t he on YouTube trying to convince people that Nuclear Energy is Fine Actually? Figures.

Looks like cypherpunk slop

Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent/etc.

but with Haskell replaced with a much worse ML with a much less coherent type system

Urbit moment

You can’t take TSMC by force. Any fighting there would trash the fabs, and anyway you need imported equipment to keep it running. So if China did invade Taiwan and wreck it, there’d be little point in trying to take it back.

I genuinely wonder how I’m gonna be a programmer long term because the industry has been so thoroughly infested with this nonsense.

“They might as well be Latvians” is a straight out of Arrested Development.

Eliezer is a major contributor to the rationalist attitude of venerating super-forecasters and super-predictors and promoting the idea that rational smart well informed people should be able to put together super accurate predictions!

This is a necessary component of his imagined AGI monster. Good thing it’s bullshit.

Why would anyone name a browser after Ronald Reagan’s wife anyway

Edit: facepalm

there’s no such thing as an open source LLM you fucking clown

I’m driven beyond irrationally mad about this. How can it be called open source when they cannot legally share the sources with you because they’re stolen? Watching the OSI wrap their little green keyway around the AI industry is one of the factors that helped deprogram me away from the starry eyed idea I had about FOSS.

Ha, I clocked them as rationalist.

I can’t really tell who the insaner person is here, which is an achievement.

Since this is the solo version, strawmasturbating

Re fame, he ends up on the orange site often enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scottaaronson.com

Wonder if people karma farm there…

“Rational Wiki presents an understanding of reality that I mostly agree with and is thus boring. I want some spicy takes so I’m going to go suck on the firehose of reactionary diarrhoea, but it’s ok because my throat game is too good to let any of it through” type shit

All time banger

I’m reasonably certain worse emails exist but they’re with sympathetic individuals.

The slight of hand is that he considers all Jewish hostages to be his last child, and all Palestinian bystanders to be the children of his enemy. Humanism is seeing them all as your children. Scott seems to have discovered what we might call “race-ism.”

The amazing part about his deranged homicidal metaphor is that it would work exactly the same way if you were using it to argue in favor of Hamas. I knew this guy had issues, I even felt bad for him, but the brainworms have clearly won. Hate is intoxicating and one should not indulge in it to this degree lest one lose one’s humanity.

Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he’s just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn’t matter that he’s bonkers.