gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

what, are statins woke now?

edit wtf 'sneak did this too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42800452

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not really sure if he thought he was smart or got bad legal advice from coiners who figured he could get off scot-free because "crypto" and "harm reduction"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Lies, damn lies, racist statisticians, but P-VALUES ARE THE TRUTH I TELL YOU

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

Free SFnal short story idea, came to me literally in a dream:

Dude is living his best life, beatiful house, beatiful wife, gets a job doing computer stuff "improving the world". But his big fancy work computer is wasting a lot of space so he reformats it/installs Nix, and suddenly everythings gone, all grey wireframe, no way out. Turns out he was given root to his own simulation and there's no backup.

Feels I should have read this somehwere but haven't read short SF in ages so...

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't confuse the Conference Castle with the (Non)Consent Castle!

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

I am sorry you have this family member.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Looks like LW/Lightcone managed to convince enough people to give then $2M, which will totally not be used to settle sexual assault lawsuits in the future.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not reading that shit but for the masochists out there who like to read HN licking VC boots, here ya go

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682305

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

people in the Russian-speaking EA community are all busy with other things.

i.e. working for Putin, running from Putin, or dying for Putin

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah thought the same, "can't make it much worse"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

LessWrongers find cool reception for translated HPMOR copies sent to Russia's highest IQ youth

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onyiPaxnmiDdHn7SR/no-one-has-the-ball-on-1500-russian-olympiad-winners-who-ve

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's been decades since I read Rhodes' history about the atom bomb, so I missed the years a bit. My point is that even if we couldn't explain exactly what was happening there was something physically there, and we knew enough about it that Oppenheimer and co. could convince the US Army to build Oak Ridge and many other facilities at massive expense.

We can't say the same about "AI".

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