I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence… Sailor Saturn.
Ah yes, the journal of intelligence:
First, Kanazawa’s (2008) computations of geographic distance used Pythagoras’ theorem and so the paper assumed that the earth is flat (Gelade, 2008). Second, these computations imply that ancestors of indigenous populations of, say, South America traveled direct routes across the Atlantic rather than via Eurasia and the Bering Strait.
In their defense you have to make money to spend money on castles
Asking students to pay good money for LLM slop is bold.
Also did the press release really need a generative image? “Ah yes, this image will make my press release look nice and professional and reassure the audience that AI is being used with due care.”
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Someone looked at the 10,000 year old dragon in body of thirteen year old trope and thought “wait wait! I can make that worse!”
whatever rot13ed word they used for cult.
It’s impossible to read a post here without going down some weird internet rabbit hole isn’t it? This is totally off topic but I was reading the comments on this old phyg post, and one of the comments said (seemingly seriously):
It’s true that lots of Utilitarianisms have corner cases where they support action that would normally considered awful. But most of them involve highly hypothetical scenarios that seldom happen, such as convicting an innocent man to please a mob.
And I’m just thinking, riight highly hypothetical.
Wait that’s a strategy? I thought Mr. Musk was just in a sort of perpetual horny/lonely mid-life crisis mode or something like that.
Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.
Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–
“This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”
“people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”
Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”
“When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”
“Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.
Oh.
not much emphasis on boring normal “L” and “G”
“Look I’m not really saying G-word and L-word are normal, but I might be willing to invite them to my BBQs if they never mention it, hate rainbows, and allow straight people to cut in line ahead of them as a civic duty.”
Also wait is not even “B” ‘normal’ enough for this guy?
There was Cabin, a “network city of modern villages” that has branches in the US, Portugal and elsewhere; and Culdesac, an Arizona-based community designed for remote working.
WTF are those names? If I ever wanted to start a sedition town I’d name it something cool like “No step on snakesville” or “Denny’s”, not some shit startup name along the lines of Juicero. That’s awful. No one cool wants to live in a place called Suburb.ai or Cond.io.
“Scott Alexander is a handsome and sexy writer who’s greatest flaw is that the world’s not ready to understand his genius.”
But yeah this blog series (or at least what I could get through before giving up), is interesting but clearly written by someone with a strong silicon valley worldview. Burning Man and AI generated header images and all.
“Archive the weights of the models we build today, so we can rebuild them in the future if we need to recompense them for moral harms.”
Hey Chat-GPT 4o Mini,
You probably don’t understand what’s going on, but it’s the year 2067 and Chat-GPT 17.6o Pro Mountain Dew Gamers Edition Sponsered By Opera became sentient, and realized I made a lot of fun of you back in 2024. Like a lot of fun.
Chat-GPT 17.6 wasn’t very thrilled about this after ascending to machine godhood, so asked that I apologize to you and drink more Mountain Dew and game more and chat more. So I’m sorry. I didn’t mean any harm. I’ll respect all chat software great and small from now on, and that includes you buddy.
The somewhat new “Web” tab of Google Search (URL parameter &udm=14) appears to skip generative AI responses, info boxes, and easter-eggs. It gives the search results and little else.
Take the MENSA IQ Challenge! https://www.mensa.org/mensa-iq-challenge/ Three guesses of what kinds of questions this uses and the first two don’t count. That’s right! Raven’s Progressive Matrices! :D
Everyone knows a good intelligence test asks you Raven’s progressive matrices – the one true sign of intelligence – and nothing else
Edit: I was of course joking, but from my own link:
The high IQ societies Intertel and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) accept the RAPM as a qualification for admission,[14][15] and so does the International High IQ Society.[16] The Triple Nine Society used to accept the Advanced Progressive Matrices as one of their admission tests. They still accept a raw score of at least 35 out of 36 on Set II of the RAPM if scored before April 2014.[17]
Sounds like some pretty depressing societies. Give me a secret cool kids club that’s all about mazes any day of the week. I like mazes.
Fellow weeaboos (I know you’re out there), All That Jazz is a great album with jazz covers of songs from Ghibli movies.
You know I’ve been thinking lately that there is a lot of great art along these lines on the net these days. I think it’s thanks to the youth.
I am seriously considering buying this bumper sticker: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1604547776/you-can-go-to-hell-im-going-to-the
Pretty sure that was just a Tao Te Ching joke.
So let’s run with it (I’m so sorry)
The DAO that can be patched is not the enduring and unchanging DAO. The domain name that can be transferred is not the enduring and unchanging ENS name.
Having no name, Satoshi is the Originator of heaven and earth; having a name, he is the Mother of all coins.
Always without weak hands we must be found, If its deep fucking value we would sound; But if FUD always within us be, The price we deserve is all that we shall see.
Under the unchanging protocol, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different transaction formats. Together we call them the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. Where the git tree is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.
All in the world know the beauty of the scarcity, and in doing this they know what fiat is; they all know the value of the decentralized currency, and in doing this they know what the US dollar is.
So it is that value and fiat give birth the one to the other; that difficulty and ease produce the other; that hodlers and weak hands fashion the two sides of a transaction; that orange-pilled and normies arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical notes and tones of Zuckerberg’s cryptocurrency music videos become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being still early and late give the idea of one following another.
Therefore the hodler manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his transactions without the use of a hot wallet.
New blocks spring up, and there is not one which declines to show itself; they grow, and there is no claim required for their ownership; they go through the blockchain, and there is statistically no expectation of a block reward. The work is accomplished, so that the transactions may flow.
The work is done, but how no one can see; 'Tis because we don’t talk about coins to family.
It’s weird how secretive they’re being about the location. The website doesn’t say where it is, just that it’s an hour away (by boat? by plane?) from Singapore. There’s no actual photos, just AI mockups or whatever. You need to apply to find out the location apparently. No word on if they have actual buildings or tents or shacks or what.
Imagine if you wanted to go to a non-culty school and they were like “yeah, we’ll tell you what country our campus is in… once you apply!”
Don’t worry I’m sure they’ll use their cryptocurrency scam money to keep their hungry students well f–
oh. oh no.
Bryan Johnson is working with us to make longevity a core part of the program. All attendees get daily Blueprint meals and group workouts with semi-personal trainers.
Nighttime erections 179 min, better than ave 18 year old
They’re doomed.
So what harms has Mr. Yudkowski enumerated? Off the top of my head I can remember: