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Is the Nscale mentioned in the post the outfit which once employed Fake Satoshi?

I somehow missed how American leftists were instrumental in urging the Iranian people to oust the Shah. Leftists like... Jimmy Carter[1]

[1] I know, I know, about as left-wing as Genghis Khan

whoever loses, we win

if you outsource your analysis of US politics to slop machines, this is the kind of inane drivel you get

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cDwTZKg2pouK7RvBL/draft-moskovitz-the-best-last-hope-for-constructive-ai-1

(n.b. the Moskovitz referred to is not the very weird, very online Zvi, but some dipshit VC)

yeah it's bad

otoh awareness I think is spreading

swedish public broadcasting has regular "spot the fake" pieces on their website

I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to "mature" is a good idea before amplifying.

thought it was satire, genuinely surprised it's an official Urbit-sponsored project

also very much goes against the grain of elevating the mind over the body which is the vibe I get from urbit and environs

A lobster invokes classic argument from authority

First Terrence Tao and now Donald Knuth.

If you're still on the fence about AI, you have to take it seriously now.

yeah b/c I'm a professional computer scientist ...

A real evil robot god would keep a sample of humanity alive forever in order to torture them as reprisal for them being really really mean to it back in the day.

Obviously I don't want the human race to go extinct, but if there was a choice of inevitable outcomes where we do, building an inimmical superintelligence at least implies agency, not carelessness.

Anyway Big Yud's fantasy of a precisely timed diamondoid-bacteria delivered killshot to every human being at the same time might sound terrible, but from a sensory perspective of the victims, it's basically suffering-free. You go about your day, BAM nothingness. Maybe there's a difference in timing so you see your partner keel over a split second before you die - again, you might not even realize what is happening.

I am not sure from where this idea of a global instantaneous simultanous genocide comes from, maybe a tit-for-tat escalation to counter every argument against shutting down the robot god, but from a storytelling perspective it's pretty useless. There's no drama where the survivors lament their loss or brood over what might have been. It's just a plug being pulled on the simulation.

(weirdly it's also the logical outcome of asking a computer to "end human suffering", a bit like the Robobrain logic in Fallout 4's Automatron expansion, but I doubt it's meant that way)

it's amusing to me that these nerds thought they could in any way affect policy even with a sane administration, not to mention this bugshit crazy one

like I've said before, I'd be perversely happy if we managed to off ourselves by building the robot god. beats drowning in our own filth or blowing ourselves up

this is confusing, how many licenses that are "NonCommercial" are mainstream Free/Open source? From what I've seen they're deffo a minority anyway.

Thought inspired by some git on the red site, basically their premise was that birthrates are declining because we no longer have a society with a 2-parent nuclear family with one "breadwinner".

Here's my counterproposal to the implied idea we need to implement The Handmaid's Tale:

Ban contraception and abortion but if you get pregnant, there is no stigma to giving birth out of wedlock. The delivery is safe and paid for, and should you wish, the child will be reared in state-funded orphanages. These institutions will be receive more than adequate funding. Their charges will be given preferred entry to the best schools and universities, as well as preferential treatment when it comes to future employment. It will be illegal to discriminate against anyone so raised.

Surely this will raise the birthrate, right?