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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

they're Thiel creatures. This is why (a) they're in all the papers all the fucking time (b) no other pronatalist couple is

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've emailed Microsoft Investor Relations to clarify what they meant and why they didn't just say "percent" if they meant "percent". But if it had been 16 percent, they'd have been yelling it from the rooftops, and they haven't been.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

if you look through the "venture capital" category, you'll see a few where I start going off on this topic. I blame the AI bubble on these bozos specifically.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have been corrected - this is a coding unit in an engineering degree. Vibe bridge-building.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

I think that LW post is the example I remember, Veedrac insisting that mathematics holds even in the face of a "sufficiently intelligent" AGI

tho i think there was also discussion on rat-tumblr

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'm not digging for cites, but i recall it was extremely hard to convince rationalists that even the ASI couldn't just break cryptography, because they don't understand maths either

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Nadella said written "by software" "on some products" so he's barely making a claim

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

the only people it torments are rationalists, so my full support to Comrade Basilisk

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

roko stresses repeatedly that the AI is the good AI, the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of all humanity!

what sort of person would fear that the coherent volition of all humanity would consider it morally necessary to kick him in the nuts forever?

well, roko

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

i have unfortunate news about volunteer sci fi con chairs

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

he's a centrist econ blogger who's been getting into light race science

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsL5ye55VA8 - video

also I have finally cracked mic technique and frankly the video sounds AWESOME, play on headphones for Pivot to ASMR

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