Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

Let's just ignore the parts of the globe that also got raped and pillaged under colonialism and didn't turn into moontouching superpowers I guess.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That was when he got a very gentle NYT bio and flipped his lid.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Aella showed up.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

in a nation that has been quietly cultivating a culture of heroic violence for decades we shouldn’t be surprised to see people trying to inflict that fear and rage upon the outside world.

Nay a culture where every citizen is entitled to one armed crashout and threats of such have been an important lever used by the party that believes in that entitlement for decades.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

His substack reads like LW.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago

If they understand that AI is like germs I do not care if sometimes people eat food off the floor following the ten second rule. But we aren't even there yet, people think it's like gold or mana from heaven or something.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

I would once again like to gloat that I called it.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 6 days ago

After the first copycat maybe some calls got made /tinfoil

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Which is both the original transhumanist cope to enable so-called consciousness upload so it’s not just copying a simulacrum of your personality to a computer while you continue to rot away

Often-missed point btw.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kalanick now runs a robotics startup; in his free time, he said recently, he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT “to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics.

When I read that I assumed they included it for color to make him sound insane.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

If tokens ever become expensive people are gonna start using these to code until they get shut down.

 

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

 

Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can't decide, but it's a depressing read.

May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.

 

Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what's going on here.

Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies.

Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn't a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather... a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?

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