gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

Monkey paw curls

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

as always trawling LW's AllPosts section is as they say in the biz a target-rich environment

wake up babe the LWers are talking about removing parts of their brains

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/puv8fRDCH9jx5yhbX/johnswentworth-s-shortform?commentId=fbKesfzHifdsZAxyf

great they made a shirt making them easier to avoid

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eq2aJt8ZqMaGhBu3r/zach-stein-perlman-s-shortform?commentId=a2xgz7bevKKHQ8BEj

here's an update on the modified bacteria in the mouth startup, TL;DR it's much harder than they thought it would be and is it really worth pursuing when we are all gonna be killed by Robot Satan (spoiler of course it is the grift must go on)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg4fTBEneAEqprHyk/lumina-probiotic-past-and-future

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 13 hours ago

"GPS will stop people reading maps!" buddy you ain't seen nothing yet. Technology is allowing people to get lost better, faster, and at scale.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 13 hours ago

as usual the illustrations are genius

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

Anyone know when and why polyamory became a Rationalist shibboleth?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

not Libertarian in the organized political sense, more like steeped in the dominant California ideology

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I had short odds for that entire submission being nuked but apparently there's enough non-bad stuff there for the mods to keep it up.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

the effort of rampant libertarians to jumpstart a social movement is going as well as expected

PauseAI Has 'officially disendorsed' PauseAI-US

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

19th C mine operators enter the chat "harumphh back in our day..."

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

Zitron is a better writer though. Yud is bland personified.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

So not only are these facilities driving up electricity prices and sucking up all the water, they're not going to provide any extra jobs in the vicinity? Genius marketing Meta.

 

“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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