gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think they're different people but may be in communication out of band.

edit a search for "HandofLixue" on Google only gives one hit, an old profile on LessWrong now renamed to "The Dao of Bayes":

https://www.lesswrong.com/users/the-dao-of-bayes

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe instead of worrying about obscure wiki pages, Habryka should reflect why a linkpost titled Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism is on the front page of his precious community now, with 48 karma and 22 comments.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure Altman is gonna get away with settling with Iyo. Hopefully they demand cold hard cash and not weird-ass OpenAI company scrip.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Following up on the thread that spawned from my comment yesterday:

https://awful.systems/comment/7777035

(I'm in vacation mode and forgot it was late on Sunday)

I wonder if Habryka, the LWer who posted both there and on Xhitter that "someone should do something about this troublesome page" realized that there would be less pushback if he'd simply coordinated in the background and got the edits in place without forewarning others. Was it intentional to try to pick a fight with Wikipedians?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

I'm no fan of MSFT but in this case I hope they squeeze Saltman for everything he has.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They have a badge now, JFC

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pls let me know who thinks Ringworld is ”hard SF” so I can punch them

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

spoilers for a number of works follow

Hyperion - mankind lives in uneasy competition with semi-hostile AIs. Wars between human factions have already killed billions. The Earth is destroyed by a science experiment dropping a black hole into the core. The farcaster (teleportation) network causes ecological disasters on multiple planets.

Dune - after catastrophic wars between humans and AIs, computers are forbidden. The only way to travel interstellar distances are via the monopoly of the Guild navigators. Society is explicitely feudal. Our hero protagonist disrupts this, establishing a theocracy in a war that kills billions. His successor holds humanity in societal stasis for millenia, to induce the Scattering that will preserve it from similar societies in the future. Of course, billions die during this period.

Foundation - humanity collapses into a new Dark Age. Presumably, trillions die.

Ringworld - I read it long ago but it was so 70s I've basically blotted it out. The wiki summary indicates it's not so bad unless you're stranded on the Ringworld itself.


[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except my feeling is it's mostly people who have grown up with Linux as a settled fact of computing life, not Unix greybeards.

 

“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

 

Sorry for Twitter link...

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