Hi, I’m Eric and I work at a big chip company making chips and such! I do math for a job, but it’s cold hard stochastic optimization that makes people who know names like Tychonoff and Sylow weep.
My pfp is Hank Azaria in Heat, but you already knew that.
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BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Post your current Ziz news and discussion hereEnglish0·3 months agofuck man, this was bad enough that people outside the sneerverse were talking about this around me irl
Trump promised me he’d get the price of them down- I’m sure we can start a gofundme to replace the gay people’s eggs
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPto SneerClub@awful.systems•I regret to inform you that AI safety institutes are still on their bull shitEnglish0·4 months agosmh they really do be out here believing there’s a little man in the machine with goals and desires, common L for these folks
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPto SneerClub@awful.systems•EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.English0·5 months ago<3
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPto SneerClub@awful.systems•EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.English0·5 months agobut muh “nice sneers for winners” ;_;
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPto SneerClub@awful.systems•EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.English0·5 months agoThank you. My wife is deathly allergic to shrimp, and I live by the motto
'If they send one of your loved ones to the emergency room, you send 10 of theirs to the deep fryer. ’
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPto SneerClub@awful.systems•EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.English0·5 months agoShared this on tamer social media site and a friend commented:
“That’s nonsense. The largest charities in the country are Feeding America, Good 360, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, United Way, Direct Relief, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity etc. etc. Now these may not satisfy the EA criteria of absolutely maximizing bang for the buck, but they are certainly mostly doing worthwhile things, as anyone counts that. Just the top 12 on this list amount to more than the total arts giving. The top arts organization on this list is #58, the Metropolitan Museum, with an income of $347M.”
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselvesEnglish0·5 months agoWild. Just the mention of “the moon” and it starts playing in my head. This place is an info hazard.
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a *real* e/acc"English0·5 months agoA nice exponential curve depicting the infinite future lives saved by whacking a ceo
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•In which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodEnglish0·5 months agoSame reaction. I don’t see how you can stop at it’s immoral for me to not breed with the Übermensch when the clear logical end is it’s immoral for me to breed entirely. As a childless person, do I get to go to EA meet ups and wag my fingers at them for not being moral now?
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•In which a Eugenicist Effective Altruist advocates becoming a cuckold for the greater goodEnglish0·5 months agoI will find someone who I consider better than me in relevant ways, and have them provide the genetic material. I think that it would be immoral not to, and that it is impossible not to think this way after thinking seriously about it.
Corporate needs you to find the difference between this^ and our local cult leader is the sun god reborn, it’s every woman’s duty to carry his seed. It is immoral to deny his divine will.
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•The predictably grievous harms of Effective AltruismEnglish0·6 months agobless
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•The predictably grievous harms of Effective AltruismEnglish0·6 months agoTo grasp how disastrously an apparently altruistic movement has run off course, consider that the value of organizations that provide healthy vegan food within their underserved communities are ignored as an area of funding because EA metrics can’t measure their “effectiveness.” Or how covering the costs of caring for survivors of industrial animal farming in sanctuaries is seen as a bad use of funds. Or how funding an “effective” organization’s expansion into another country encourages colonialist interventions that impose elite institutional structures and sideline community groups whose local histories and situated knowledges are invaluable guides to meaningful action.
Nice. Kind of reminds me of a segment in Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary where to eradicate the Viet Kong, American military intelligence organizations became obsessed with body counts as a measure of ‘winning’ the war, so then the effect on the ground became shooting civs so we can count more bodies. The metric you use as a proxy for doing good (I’ve donated x dollars to combat homelessness while working for blackrock :)) isn’t aligned with your desired outcome.
Hey, wait a minute, were EAs the misaligned entity all along??
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BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)English0·8 months agoword on the street it that SBF and Diddy are sharing a cell. I can’t wait for the NFT album to drop
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised themEnglish0·8 months agoThese kids really think if they pick up some trailer park rock candy they can become Paul Erdos. Hate to say it lads, he was simply built different.
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•No, intelligence is not like heightEnglish0·8 months agoDelete this now. This is an info hazard.
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Off-Topic: Music Recommendation ThreadEnglish0·8 months agoDon’t judge me, I’m sensitive uwu Some tracks i’ve been bumping lately~
Jon Batiste - The Very Thought of You
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings - Elvis Presley Blues
BigMuffin69@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•if you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-educationEnglish0·9 months agoit’s a compliment boo 😘 <3 u habibi
spat out my fucking drink on this one