gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

I think it went like this

  • clawd is a pun on claude, lobsters have claws
  • oh no we're gonna get sued, but lobsters moult/molt their shells, so we're gonna go ther
  • "molt" sounds dumb, let's go with openclaws

it's vibe product naming

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

what absolute bullshit

https://www.moltbook.com/

AKA Reddit for "agents".

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 8 hours ago

There's a scene in *Bladerunner 2049" where some dude explains that all public records were destroyed a decade or so earlier, presumably by malicious actors. This scenario looks more and more plausible with each passing day, but replace malice with stupidity.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

LWer: Heritage Foundation has some good ideas but they're not enough into eugenics for my taste

This is completely opposed to the Nietzschean worldview, which looks toward the next stage in human evolution, the Overman. The conservative demands the freezing of evolution and progress, the sacralization of the peasant in his state of nature, pregnancy, nursing, throwing up. “Perfection” the conservative puts in scare quotes, he wants the whole concept to disappear, replaced by a universal equality that won’t deem anyone inferior. Perhaps it’s because he fears a society looking toward the future will leave him behind. Or perhaps it’s because he had been taught his Christian morality requires him to identify with the weak, for, as Jesus said, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” In his glorification of the “natural ecology of the family,” the conservative fails even by his own logic, as in the state of nature, parents allow sick offspring to die to save resources for the healthy. This was the case in the animal kingdom and among our peasant ancestors.

Some young, BASED Rightists like eugenics, and think the only reason conservatives don’t is that liberals brainwashed them that it’s evil. As more and more taboos erode, yet the one against eugenics remains, it becomes clear that dysgenics is not incidental to conservatism, but driven by the ideology itself, its neuroticism about the human body and hatred of the superior.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (19 children)

enjoy this glorious piece of LW lingo

Aumann's agreement is pragmatically wrong. For bounded levels of compute you can't necessarily converge on the meta level of evidence convergence procedures.

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no I don't know what it means, and I don't want it to be explained to me. Just let me bask in its inscrutibility.

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

It certainly feels like there's been a concerted push to concern-troll about anti-AI sentiment on lobste.rs. Every day I recalibrate if it's worth keeping my account there.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I also didn't find the argument very persuasive.

The LLM companies aren't paying anythnig for content. Why should they stop scraping now?

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

I think it’s worth pointing out that our guy is crashing out primarily because of this post about integrating with Bluesky,

I've never bothered getting into ATproto arguments. They always have a faint air of fashwashing over them. Or it's a bit like Urbit where only those in the know are welcome.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's very quiet now that the media (and Musk) isn't getting the story they hoped for.

Edit again, I really really wish it hadn't come to this.

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

I too was and am horrified at Gas Town, but now I see multiple submissions to lobste.rs and HN not ridiculing it, but actually engaging, and reluctanly concludes that Yegge's Still Got It.

 

“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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