Soyweiser

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

I have no idea, but CInnasVerses post might be a hint. I just found it annoying they simply don't list it at all. (another odd thing, I found a google 'this is what wikipedia says about this person' short description of the link. But the wikipedia page of the person was deleted in 2018. Everything is falling apart.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This is so much better than talking about the ELIZA effect, as most people dont know about that and it was too long ago. Thanks.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago

Nice, tend to not to think of the spirals out of personal safety concerns (decades of internet time made me good at not thinking of pink elephants), but that certainty is a good addition.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 15 hours ago

Lol, lmao even.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago

It did make the Dutch news, the headline was something like 'bitcoin drops after biggest holder sells'.

I was very disappointed to learn they ment saylor, and not that Satoshi had returned and cashed out and crashed everything.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

So i have been using DuckDuckGo a bit more, and really disappointed to see they have basically banned rationalwiki.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 1 day ago

Prob partially, and depends on what you consider working. I recall the 'ask it to describe a scene from a movie' jailbreak, which wasnt a real jailbreak as it gave movie plot results. (Ask it to by pass a lock and it will tell you to lockpick it, and not just tap the lock to break it, for example).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As we know goblins and gremlins etc are becoming a model collapse problem which they have to prompt against, perhaps include stuff like 'gremlins are relevant for this project'

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn't a _ or something be better then? Or isnt that universally listed first?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

In Buttcoin related news, apparently Michael J. Saylor has sold some of his bitcoins because he was running out of money and we reached sub 60k. For a quick non dutch source on the selling see this from r/buttcoin (last image)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

Troops are apparently crowdsourcing toiletries.

Us military has fallen a long way from 'this is our warship that makes icecream for everyone'.

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

Makes you wonder how much of rationalism is just contrarianism.

 

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

 

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

 

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

 

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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