Jesus fucking christ I don't think I will ever get over how fucking dogshit the fucking rationalists are at epistemology
IT'S CALLED A FUCKING MAPPING. "MAP". AS IN NOT THE TERRITORY. IT'S IN THE NAME.
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Oh you should be extremely worried.
God I was just reading that and it's so hard but it's so funny because that poor girl freya seems to have caused a crisis for Kent by being genuinely enthusiastic about AI bullshit and making friends with chatbots.
I wonder if Kent is going to have to do conversion therapy on his AI girlfriend now. Ethically of course.
Liteplo says the seed of RentAHuman was planted during his travels in Japan, where humans can lease other humans as escorts.
“The story that I could tell anyone to blow their mind is that you can rent a boyfriend or a girlfriend,” he said.
huh? his big epiphany is learning about prostitution?
Clearly one of the lesser intellectual crimes in this nazi manifesto, but the way rationalists use "ontology" to mean basically "core set of beliefs" irks me so much!! Though on the upside it leads to awe-inspiring metaphysical horror turns of phrase such as "update one's ontology".
Someone claimed no country had ever pulled itself out of poverty except by capitalism
The funny thing is orthodox marxists wouldn't necessarily disagree: capitalism is a necessary historical step towards communism. Not sure how that justifies the continued existence of exploitation and billionaires!
Oh absolutely. It's frankly shocking how wrong he's been about so many things for so so long. He's also managed to pen the most astonishingly holocaust-denial-coded diatribe I've ever read from (ostensibly) a non-holocaust denier. I guess his overdeveloped genocide-denial muscle was twitching!
and, of course, Noam Chomsky
lmao the shade
Yeah! Exactly!
And of course on that theme from Melanie "Computer scientist" Mitchell
On the bad side: A.I.-induced psychosis! On the good side, some people will get a lot out of using chatbots as therapists.
These people have definitely offloaded the cognitive load to chatbots.
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what the hecky
he's so offended he's been told he's not god!