"to give you more AI slop we have to restart TMI" is going to do wonders for the public's opinion of Big Tech
gerikson
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This is just standard promptfondler false equivalence: "when people (including me) speak, they just select the next most likely token, just like an LLM"
Oh, that craziness is orthodoxy (check the last part of the quote).
The reference to the Basilisk was literally one sentence and not central to the post at all, but this big-R Rationalist couldn't resist on singling it out and loudly proclaiming it's not relevant anymore. The m'lady doth protest too much.
Here in Sweden the hygienist is definitely the Bad Cop in this scenario. I got sternly talked to by someone fresh out of school, so I don't doubt there's a retired Master Sergeant on the staff of the college they go to...
you just know Musk has internalized all the pro-1911 arguments so he can hang out with the "cool guys" on the range
Despite Soatak explicitely warning users that posting his latest rant[1] to the more popular tech aggregators would lead to loss of karma and/or public ridicule, someone did just that on lobsters and provoked this mask-slippage[2]. (comment is in three paras, which I will subcomment on below)
Obligatory note that, speaking as a rationalist-tribe member, to a first approximation nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk and hasn’t been for at least a decade. As far as I can tell, it’s a meme that is exclusively kept alive by our detractors.
This is the Rationalist version of the village worthy complaining that everyone keeps bringing up that one time he fucked a goat.
Also, “this sure looks like a religion to me” can be - and is - argued about any human social activity. I’m quite happy to see rationality in the company of, say, feminism and climate change.
Sure, "religion" is on a sliding scale, but Big Yud-flavored Rationality ticks more of the boxes on the "Religion or not" checklist than feminism or climate change. In fact, treating the latter as a religion is often a way to denigrate them, and never used in good faith.
Finally, of course, it is very much not just rationalists who believe that AI represents an existential risk. We just got there twenty years early.
Citation very much needed, bub.
[1] https://soatok.blog/2024/09/18/the-continued-trajectory-of-idiocy-in-the-tech-industry/
[2] link and username witheld to protect the guilty. Suffice to say that They Are On My List.
Some killjoys pour cold water over everyone's favorite dental biohack, and HN is not happy
DHH takes a break from racing cars, railing against DEI, and being perhaps the worst boss Denmark has ever produced to engage in some light nerd-washing
https://world.hey.com/dhh/wonderful-vi-a1d034d3
Some people on lobste.rs call him out for being terrible but mostly it's a celebration about how only the smartest, most productive coders use vi/vim or even more hipster modal editors
The 1911 is Murican, not some Italian crap
/s obviously, Italian gunmakers are very good.
Also it's really weird how there's a ton of small-business innovation in American gun gear, but the only ones who seem to be making money are European companies?
Obligatory HN link
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41598803
Pray for poor Prospera, beset by "leftists".