I’m sure ol’ Petey Tooter has done the calculus to justify why it’s worth pouring out a gallon of water every time someone wants to use a worse ctrl+f on his collected works.

Oh for sure. It’s probably why I feel so unmoored in today’s culture (jk)

ok so couple stub sneers I thought of when reading this:

1. One way to look at EA is as an extension of the middle-manager’s syndrome of injecting metrics everywhere to allow them to spin up narratives of growth and improvement to justify their existence. I can’t decide who I hate more!
2. following on from 1, it’s kind of funny that the EAs, who you could pattern match to a “high school nerd” stereotype, are intellectually beaten out by an analog of the “jock” stereotype of sports fans: fantasy league participants who understand the concept of “intangibles” that EAs apparently cannot grasp.
3. it absolutely tracks that EAs, who see charities that spend money on administrating themselves as inefficient and incompetent, are dumbfounded and bereft of answers when any of their organisations implode

Ok now where does this fit on my red string chart that links david gerard to X Æ A-Xii/Techno Mechanicus

Two fun lil things in an overall gratifying episode:

• TIL Sam Harris is a nepo baby! His mother created golden girls
• SSC mentioned, and by extension, that Scott, as “the SSC guy”

Damn, beat me to it! I’m glad I checked new.

I like posting the buzzsprout link as it eventually has the transcript of the ep.

Ok so if hubris somehow becomes a synonym of bayes I’d be all for it

More or less the plot of evangelion

@[email protected] mentioned!!!

Also: note that it is centred around her sister. Note to self: do not direct LLM to write erotica about a sibling, because that is not a normal thing to do for someone turning over a new leaf.

“completed” I guarantee it’s AI gen’ed. Note to self: use LLM to pump out a novel if/when I need to show I’m turning over a new leaf

Can you prove that ChatGPT is not conscious? No. The hard problem of consciousness cuts both ways. Right now there is no way to know one way or the other.

You, when you step in dog shit: “Oh no!!! I’m sorry, Mr. Conscious Poop, who is conscious because I can’t prove that you aren’t!”

RPM? Like how fast you can spin?

Fuck yeah I’m a finnish DF genius

Science: “our current understanding of genetics leads us to believe IQ is not heritable”.

This fucking guy: “IQ is heritable and you just haven’t proved it yet. Citation: I belong to a race with good genetics, unlike you”

Second, is the more common “IQ isn’t intelligence” trick. Sure, the measure doesn’t encompass everything that is making intelligence, but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ.

Any time you see something like this, what it’s really saying is:

IQ is intelligence to me and nothing you say can dissuade me. I just have a high enough IQ to write a disclaimer for plausible deniability.

/jk: I’m dopamine fasting. That way I can enjoy genAI music in the inevitable future

I’ve stopped listening to music because I realised it made me dissociate too easily. If I were getting back into it all, I’d probably start by playing this on repeat.

Janelle was gracious enough to put her on Pynk as well!

MFs looked at SBF and thought, yeah, more of that thanks.

Who do we have to bribe to just have a pitfall trap in place of whatever it is they’re trying to build?

My best attempt to follow this advice produces: people who can get pregnant. Works for me!