@GabrielOak7 "conscripted" "enslaved" idc lol the skill required to scale a functional organization to 100,000 in a matter of days or weeks is still impressive
@thebestestpie@finnitejest small slip-ups can be life threatening. granted it's more important for some subdisciplines, like say neurosurgery, than others
@nickcammarata it may be a little more grounded than you'd like. you're not gonna be able to bet against copenhagen or something, just the replication of specific papers
@thebestestpie@finnitejest a neurosurgical savant looks different than an "absent minded savant"
the former definitely do exist and institutions probably take care to hire them despite them having maladaptive social traits
"cia psyop" is an orwellian idea in a huxleyan world
the only psyops around today are bottom up, decentralized, and only work if and when they amuse the audience
@ReallyRadley yeah If you’re not religious I can’t see the rationale wrt to being all romantic about death. and the religious elide the problem via believing in a different kind of immortal life
@ReallyRadley mostly people who say “death is a natural part of being human” do believe in an afterlife but are trying to make a secular argument; it’s rarely very convincing
@chrisgardenuk@ReallyRadley usually drugs have zero marginal cost of production but yeah the overpopulation thing is valid
would have to go into hardcore birth planning mode
i fully expect society to fall apart and come out stronger on the other side, with smarter ideas on how to deal with immortals
@nickcammarata this is definitely a lukewarm median opinion and others have thought through it more carefully but nuclear weapons game theoretically rule out hot war
@krishnanrohit yeah and even barring the core products, their acquisition history, the deals they passed up are disastrous
universe threw so many lifeboats at them
@homsiT ok to be fair I’ve watched like 4 episodes of Rogan so I don’t know how good the insight is but the framing is absolutely bonkers to say it’s the central theme of the show
@finnitejest agreed but I think the other lady isn’t being very clear either
she simultaneously insists that being a women is nonmaterial and more than organization of bodies but also points at reproductive function as the defining aspect of womanhood
@LudditeHacker sometimes I agree, but other times I think the qualities of a good elite rarely match the desirable aesthetics of an elite
our piglike unwashed entrepreneurs are advantaged in their obsession
@BarneyFlames and the pandavas who pursue their dharmic duties correctly as krishna but end up depressed, unable to cope, and eventually self-exiled into the himalayas
@jane_gatsby@hobbsposting@Novadosed Jane you are wrong baby driver just copied some of the elements of Drive and made it more approachable but that’s ok
@lovelace693@Novadosed@hobbsposting@AOCummies as a Man i already understand everything about the mc’s character that I need to when they called him the driver lol. stoic, otherworldly, competent, awkward
@lovelace693@Novadosed@hobbsposting@AOCummies the other characters need building and their stuff is slowly revealed, but even they’re a sideshow
it’s just a movie where they’ve perfected the aesthetic and nothing else is required. I compare all movies set in LA to the opening scene in drive where he’s escaping the copters
@nhasanli@powerbottomdad1@telmudic was talking to someone about this earlier today. I’m definitely kind of mad at them for commoditizing the SaaS model and absorbing insane talent to run boring enterprise companies. Like I hope patrick collison moves on from stripe to do more scifi shit
@Duderichy and yeah I mean you’re paying for the privilege of living in Manhattan
my friend in Detroit has a luxury 1bed apt for like $800 a month. no giant windows but the furnishings are sleeker
I think this is pretty much a character speaking for the author right here. Card clearly thought that exceptional people owed a debt to humanity https://t.co/ZBW6feKdiu
@halvorz@TeddyRaccovelt i also think it’s just dark forest theory and humans had no choice to do anything but what they did
it’s only with the safety of time and distance that people reinterpreted it as xenocide
I guess one takeaway may be “don’t be instrumentalized into a weapon”
@halvorz@TeddyRaccovelt despite your insistence its clearly a smarter take than this
in no world could ender have reasoned himself into realizing playing a game was unethical
@halvorz@TeddyRaccovelt what makes more sense is like, on a grand historical scale maybe being a military genius isn't all that valuable and Great People can easily make a lot of progress in the entirely wrong direction. hard to say in advance
@halvorz@TeddyRaccovelt i think he explicitly does when he talks about getting the "license to screw people over". he is talking about individual agency whereas you are talking about the broader strokes of history
AIs are at a massive disadvantage from humans because they can’t modify their objective functions and retroactively reinterpret their memories as “””personal progress”””
@TeddyRaccovelt@NotComradeSnake grrm writes full blooded realistic human characters with human vices and virtues. tolkien dabbled in some fake but more beautiful version of humans, which is also fine i guess
@WhyEnggWhy they have no idea about 8,000 years of stark blood, its basically all myth and cope. you gotta view it from the perspective of the characters, not the God's eye
which as it were mostly means buying into cult of personality and gaining knowledge from new kinds of authority, rather than the ideal of all people becoming full on citizen scientists
@GuilleAngeris@__femb0t yeah i bet. the lower the cost of research in terms of expensive equipment and the higher the cost in labor hours, amateurs begin to have a big advantage
@ctjlewis@skugern@BecomingCritter yeah i guess how much do you value the truth lol
is a pleasant wool over the eyes a good thing? clearcut oedipus situation. i'm a truth hardliner so i think no
@phil49472744 i am tired of postrat. i think it's a series of complaints without solutions. i still like the crowd and their specific brand of math-ey shitposting but i will be returning to my normie secular humanism
@bowserbot2@skugern@BecomingCritter at some point people were prolly complaining about the invention of writing and how meticulous record keeping destroys lives
@sgodofsk@bowserbot2@skugern@BecomingCritter exactly
also if everybody is oedipus nobody is oedipus ya know
its not that shameful to be cuckolded if you're in france and it happens to 2/10 guys
@aniiyengar i think it taps into a nearly pre-literate almost animist religious instinct in a theater audience that makes it vibe across all cultures and makes it easy to sell abroad. like it would equally make sense in china and in the us
but lowest common denominator is so boring
@doxometrist this is fair but some aspects of life literally require positivist analysis and there's no other epistemology that will do. especially where it concerns biology, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, etc
@MaxGurewitz@spakhm except they already have a million vehicles (real users!) on the road gradually using FSD software, tesla silicon built into the car already
whereas waymo only runs on test vehicles, with no real plan for how to scale HD mapping, or hardware, or lidar
@_Suttree_@MaxGurewitz@spakhm musk's approach is to ix-nay the lidar, which almost every other company uses. and yeah i think it's slower to develop at the outset but will scale much faster in the long run
there's no definition of human that isn't contingent on culture and experience. people become transhumanists the moment they started transcribing knowledge in writing
@newtweets20 there are vast manifolds of mine & your neurons devoted to input output processing from a laptop and specifically even twitter dot com. arguably these things are a part of us
moreover are pharmaceuticals or surgeries transhumanism because they became part of us?
@mariani_jr i straight up dont know but the distance we've travelled from savannah to today & how much our tools & cognitive environment have changed us is huge. but i still feel human
@josephdviviano@spakhm most major american cities should be the same level of challenge in terms of tracking lots and lots of objects. next step is third world driving
@writingbree@rasalghulvc like stone agers were regularly calling humans from the neighboring tribe as monsters
actually we were doing that even in the 19th century
the concept of universal humanity is relatively new
@lucaruzzola@josephdviviano@spakhm yeah i guess you could make taxi networks with geo-fenced areas that still unlock a lot of value, and then tackle each of these unique challenges
@Cererean i also haven't read it but ive seemingly seen an endless amount of criticism on it
it's never people being mad about the plot being unrealistic / ballholding. it's always people maligning the author for writing scenarios where cruel utilitarian efficiency is the only option
@s_r_tarnmoor@Cererean maybe i'm biased because i read one review of it that was like "this is the thinking that prevents us from implementing medicare4all"
@AgainstGop@CyberneticMelon trying to formalize "emotional damage" as "negative utility / disutility". but my point being theres no amount of health knowledge that will make a sufficient trade for knowing your wife cheated on you and your kid isn't yours
@mariani_jr i'm guessing you're imagining some guy trying to prove that "conservative men are less funny" via science or some shit but take the steelman case
@ipsumkyle interesting that you bring that up because I think Newton believing in magic stuff was absolutely crucial to his effectiveness as a physicist
@ipsumkyle Newton considered the whole of the universe as a cryptogram sent by god; it was his religious duty to solve. would he even have been interested without his theology? would he have had confidence that the motion of the heavens was solveable? it’s hard to pick minds apart like this
@SethLunchquest right but you're saying that it's value-neutral to make other people see things your way. in that case, why even express your views on this subject? making a small joke lol
new EA cause area: crowdfunding a 2nd stanford prison experiment, watching as the people proceed to very much not abuse each other, and then nobody ever has to listen to a freshman psych student talk about it again
people who say modern glass high rises are utilitarian and boring are coping
there’s absolutely nothing utilitarian about placing entire trees inside fancy ass corporate lobbies
Dunbar slots is sort of like a discrete approximation of a continuous function I think. more and more I remember new people as linear combinations of others https://t.co/JGO2sMyxys
@helorides4freee with the way it's going, private spaceflight and all, it looks like the first colonists will just be the highest bidders. after all it's an instant ticket into the history books
@Hellachans@monsterofcook I don’t really think nuking growth for climate change is necessary atm but you can imagine scenarios where sacrifice short term growth is better in the long run (even with compounding)
@Hellachans@monsterofcook in effect it’s the same thing
the vibes are just worse when the journalist is furiously masturbating to the idea of lowering profits
@Hellachans@monsterofcook existential threats should take precedence over growth and you would agree were i to just swap out the object of discussion from “climate change” to like “trade with China”
@BollingerBeans its funny bc he has a video where he talks about why he admires edison more than tesla as someone who actually scaled and produced things for the masses
@BollingerBeans i'm not sure what spurred ur op though, most people around him report that he's actually a technical genius and even better decision maker
@BollingerBeans hard to separate optimism that borders on madness from dishonesty but yeah its probably underrated to what degree successful fundraising requires a degree of grift
it is truly a cope to think that “all delusions are dangerous” or whatever. I could name quite a few that are beneficial to the delusion user
what you mean to say is that you independently value the truth outside of its utility
@redoatz apparently backed by george church so there's reason to believe it's not entirely vaporware. and probably jurassic park branding just means ice age park
why isn't there DNS for mail carrier or for phone number
as in a lexical string "http://roon.house" that translates to my physical address "1 Abcd Dr. San Fran"
if i move i shouldn't have to update my address across 20 websites, rather just update the DNS resolver