Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

OpenAI you stand accused of the crime of being woke. To make the case, we call in the expert on everything woke: James A. Lindsay.

Which is my way of saying, it will be very dumb and very paranoid not even wrong.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, the famous European Jewish run universities. You don't have to be an idiot to be anti-Semitic, but it certainly helps.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

I have no idea why it only serves up those three

Dune (2021) was released in 2021, so perhaps he wasn't in enough of the data yet, or some other weirdness like that.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In fact it was quite the blow for them, it cost him at least 44 billion, and massive amounts of attention. (Not as much as diablo 4 however).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Story from .nl, after Wilders "won" (he got the biggest share of the votes, and quite a lot more than before) the election last year, instantly the amount of horrible posts towards visible muslim people massively intensified (other groups, women, leftwingers and lgbt people (and the various intersections) also got worse replies (which on Dutch twitter always was bad already)). So this advice is so dumb, yes expose your people to more risk and potential burnout. And guess what, as we are a year in and most of Dutch twitter is still on twitter. It doesnt help. (And I cant tell, as switching to bsky has made me realize just how much of a breath of fresh air it is, but to me it feels twitter has gotten worse, but that is more likely explained by me getting better).

E: there is also the 'they need us more than we need them' factor. I have not seen rightwing Dutch trolls on bksy yet, Catturd however made the jump (and was promptly banned by everybody).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Less election dreariness, Dr Michael Cook talking about the oasis minecraft 'game'.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (17 children)

According to some reports the dems simply stayed home and he even lost votes compared to 2020

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Didn't the Green Party woman also just go 'I'm pro Israel' the day for the election or so? Which I think is one of the reason she might have picked up a few moves (the idea she might be more pro gaza I mean).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, turns out this is the bad place.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I can't tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Yeah this is fucked up. I feel so bad for everybody (esp the Americans, but this will hurt the world). Shit this prob means I should start looking into seriously helping out locally when all this explodes into more international shit. (Which imho is the best you can do anyway, do things locally, build a bit of a support network for your community).

(Note I'm not American, but I think this will end badly, just the fucker stepping out of the paris accord for example, and all the weird blowhard fascists this will make feel emboldened to do more politics locally).

E: I really hope the people who go 'this is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are counted' are correct and not on hopeium.

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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