@eigenrobot the best rewarded jobs in the “take merchant” part of the economy will always be to shit on the most productive members of other parts of society
imagine the first guy to compress the interrelations of the physical world into a structured system of language. a competitive advantage over his peers
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Andrew Ng’s coursera, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Gary Marcus’ lab and I have over 300 confirmed paperclips. https://x.com/Logo_Daedalus/status/1449874880522977284
my paradigm has already won, my people are already rich, the best my boy logo can do is rage online with each of his 10^5 tweets maximally utilized by the engagement algorithms, making him spiritually an indentured servant to the ad machine anyway
@__femb0t@nEquals001@0x5a2fc8 absolutely correct but here’s some funny truths that appear when I analyze everything on the shapes <-> words axis even if it’s not quite real
in conditions where the environment is relatively stable filial piety is good
cultural evolution may be the best source of truth
in conditions where the environment is rapidly changing filial piety can be pretty bad
in particular it seems more or less useless to listen to older family members re: jobs and finances but advice on life and relationships is probably lindy
@alth0u im not sure but if i look at like N-10 and N-5 generations they probably lived vastly more similar lives than me vs my grandparents, like not even close
@alth0u the reason I brought this up is because I am constantly trying to fight my parents and grandparents scarcity mindset lel
currently trying to tell my dad he should through out his broken $20 fan instead of trying to fix the fuse
@MangoZeus@tsawrub he has no logos though
mr. daedalus is making level 0 analogies to summoning the devil and landian ideas about technocapital that i literally constantly post about it
broke: all commodity technologies start as luxuries, so the point of building luxuries is to create commodities
woke: the point of commodity technology is to increase global gdp and living standards baselines, so we can afford to spend more on luxuries like space travel
@WilliamGrobman@woke_alt@yhdistyminen yeah truly nonsensical feed this morning
AI IS ALL FAKE FILIPINO LABOR, ALSO IT IS EQUIVALENT TO SUMMONING DEMONS
@eigenrobot the filipinos are busy labeling data for fairly mundane tasks like photo segmentation
but my favorite parts of AI are nlp and rl which are either generated via self play or just absorbing the whole internet
@lastcontrarian what about things that contribute to wellness but aren’t explicitly “normal happy people”
like memes and humor bring no small amount of joy
@wiki_early_life Nah not really the best in those fields stay there
one of the smartest kids I knew in college did ML because he was like “the math people are too smart”
@eigenrobot like i know where you work and they could care less. when my coworker was quitting my boss encouraged him to stay two weeks until half year bonus is delivered
@ChanaMessinger specific case of the general problem which is expert worship
EAs and rats should stick to their guns and see their arguments to their own conclusions
@nickcammarata someone raised a good point that the October earnings report won’t include the impact from new MacBook sales and the options will expire before the next earnings
Apple: evil monopolistic behemoth that uses its market power to charge exorbitant rates and stifle all software competition. run by psychopaths
Facebook: benevolent web service providing a cornucopia of social products for free to even the poorest and most downtrodden 😊
all of my tweet candidates are run through mental models of my High Value Followers and dropped if any of the models output a p(sus) score above a certain threshold
how does this structure work? are DAOs legally recognized entities or do they need a shell corp that have eg corporate leadership that voluntarily follows the will of the DAO https://x.com/cobie/status/1450922278938628098
@vgr no idea how this happened but i seem to have become the poster child for visuospatial iq eg rotating shapes. i think I may have popularized shape memes around these parts
Elizabeth Holmes reached a higher level of fame by being the poster child for Silicon Valley failure than she ever would’ve as a successful CEO of a minor biotech company 😂
lotta extremely smart people discover in their 20s that they enjoy attention and status far more than they enjoy doing anything useful and then turn that dark enlightenment into their whole personality
@salt_koala@CatOrman1 oh i mean i have long spiel for that lets save it for clubby
i think most human abilities like eg higher reasoning are just a matter of scaling brain volume than fundamental innovations
@merchant_merch1 “things that are not real” -> complex abstraction
but abstraction is not foreign to smart animals and there are several abstractions that are well beyond the capacity of less intelligent humans
main contention with ribbonfarm thought is that while mediocrity is fine and good part of what makes it nice are the undercurrent delusions of grandeur and the true knowledge that mediocrities make it big all the time
why pull the veil?
“ai is communist crypto is libertarian” is cope for politics brained boomers
the only thing that really matters is that the former is mostly a real and useful technology and the latter mostly isn’t
@pee_zombie just lots of short sighted branding plays pretending to be tech startups eg neobanks, wework etc
many of the most popping nyc startups end up being bs
@ollyrobot is the utility low? the big tech cos are using it silently in every possible way
better shopping recos, better newsfeeds, better searches
I mean google translate is space age now
@ollyrobot i think it’s also solved previously unsolvable things
eg protein folding is an innovation rather than optimization. same with driver assist or autopilot
@aquariusacquah tbf even if you believe in strong deflationary effects of technology you can find a money supply level that causes net hyperinflation (we are nowhere close to it)
@postpostpostr@jeff82874662@wasphyxiation this is a fundamentally silly way to approach a problem, from the politics first instead of the cold equations
“one hell of a coincidence that high order nodes in the contagion graph are most important to remove”
@finnitejest@jeff82874662 regarding nightclubs they actually do make you wear masks on the dance floor most places ive seen in SF
again it's stupid, probably doesn't work, but morally consistent
@alth0u@LingTolls@jeff82874662@wasphyxiation the individual storeowners probably make it their policy for servers, for reasons of keeping the the 95%entile paranoiac guests comfortable, and they are absolutely correct to do so
@dcwych getting into pure metaphysics at this point but even if the set is measure zero, smooth functions are far more often interesting to real world application than something like Weierstrauss
@parafactual@joodaloop@reconfigurthing so im talking about multiple things but
1) the marginal value of another furious voice on an already hotly debated topic is very very low, there are better investments of your time than yelling about eg masks or vaccines
@parafactual@joodaloop@reconfigurthing 2) mostly highly debated topics are not worth getting piss mad about on either side because you can clearly elucidate how the other side ended up at their viewpoint
take abortion as an example. im prochoice but i can perfectly understand the prolife logic so im not mad
@parafactual@joodaloop@reconfigurthing and yes im sure there are subjects where the median voter is extremely wrong during my time just as they were in previous times
but its extremely not worth bashing my head against the wall about unless im some kind of gifted political leader and i have "alpha" in that way
@parafactual@joodaloop@reconfigurthing most kids 17-22 think theyre some sort of godlike orator/convincer but frankly most of them are not and they could be doing better things
@parafactual@joodaloop@reconfigurthing also the general intuition learned over time that when i broach some new topic and get mad about it theres always some logical historical reason why we ended up at this unhappy equilibrium that doesnt equate to 'other side evil'
aspartame hate is the pinnacle of techno pessimism
puritanical mfers cannot believe that there’s any such thing as a free lunch of tasting good and not making you fat
@MegaBasedChad perhaps but you might be thinking too narrowly about this
for example elon can and does go on for hours about his philosophy of engineering and physics and how to approach building new things
@MegaBasedChad Einstein once said the distinction between a technician and a scientist was their philosophical depth
that being said i agree modern academic philosophy is a disaster filled with lifeless boomers
@MegaBasedChad also meta level thought is almost an indulgence … these people earned their right to talk on the meta level by being goated in other ways
tldr first be a king then be a philosopher
@hyperboreanterf@MegaBasedChad imo the real problem and why philosophy is so annoying is that lot of middling intellects fall into the trap of thinking that reading a lot of books and writing papers about them is much more impactful than doing something of practical value
@joodaloop a,b doesn’t matter - it’s about the conscious effort exerted
c is irrelevant because a literally infinitesimal fraction arrive at the conclusion that some religious is correct based on textual analysis alone