@profpujz@unironictechbro@PradyuPrasad oh and regarding long lasting impact. im not sure. maybe i value creative destruction more than the average person? i think of the world in duty based ways rather than 'rights' based ways. i'm marginally more partial to ideas about the universe being an illusion
blackpill on the highly socially competent is that theyve highly speciated their intelligence on statusmaxxing in an equally bugman way as autist programmers
think about how much work it takes to be at the forefront of culture and conversation and shit. following a million political discussions and media cultural topics. it's a lot of thinking. i kind of resent myself for it
@atroyn@RokoMijic the thing about autonomous weaponry is that i see far more credible defense systems. world leaders will walk around with an armada of protective drones. still not really possible to shoot a nuke out of the sky
@eurydicelives@kitten_beloved@bigmastertroll lol i remember he said poor men were offering violence/protection or something. which i'm sure is correct in some cases but thats still not money
I’m being facetious obviously. 30% of them work incredibly hard and keep the wheels of digital civilization turning and get promoted quickly and all that
the bottom 30% cruises at L4 and abuses the sick leave policy as much as possible
@MikeBlack114@josh_weinberg both of you are uncreative unresourceful hacks doomed to think forever in the language of doctrine and dogma
you don’t even realize that i can make use of my network of highly knowledgeable followers to gather much more up to date knowledge than just googling
the blackpill is that the tech industry seems to do most industries better than they do it and there will inevitably be a lot of seething about this. i guess pmarca already wrote about this a decade ago
pmarca thought this would happen by companies spinning up software divisions but instead it mostly happened through outside disruption in cars, space, telecom, defense, and on and on
@nickcammarata yes I think it’s fascinating and important however there’s some poor researcher out there without openai scale resources wasting a million epochs on finding it when maybe it required ten million
@petergodofsky tbf the important part of the airline service is its logistics and google and others made incredible leaps forward in optimizing ticket sales. they are more responsible for few decades worth of drops in ticket price than the airline industry itself
@eigenrobot imo its the opposite
everybody who stays silent w their opinion because they don't want to rock the boat is doing a slight dead weight loss
my cope is that I think there are like 5 people in the world who can meaningfully contribute to its progress. everyone else is either a glorified data serf or building devtools. i might as well solve easier profitable science projects
@owen_flanagan you're not just rejecting deep learning as the final invention (which is fine), you're rejecting mathematical ability to model intelligence (not fine). if you're a physicalist then there's nothing else that the brain can consist of other than a connection graph of neurons
@R1Jack@growing_daniel ya the wheat prices coming back down in 3 years is not gonna matter when your government collapses this year. India’s probably fine as a net wheat exporter but eg Bangladesh east Africa should not participate in any sanctions
@growing_daniel@devahaz when someone yells at you out of your car window to go back home it doesn’t really hit. heard it too many times. when someone tells me that South Indians are genetically inferior I’m seething
competing thought that technological civilization is incredibly hard to build and maintain and also that it seems inevitable and eschatological based on homo sapiens as tool user
@VitalikButerin I do not think any country has a serious shot of reaching it before us due to the extreme concentration of AI talent
And even if we had ‘world peace’ individual corporate actors would still be incentivized to cut corners unless competition was gone entirely
@reconfigurthing yea but I think that people outside of the big labs are not really able to do alignment stuff
mathematical proof of alignment is like hard/impossible/unfruitful so I wanna see people gradually aligning bigger and bigger GPTs empirically
an AGI must be able to answer moral questions that are too complex to pose to a human. then it has to answer those moral questions across whole groups of people. so alignment will require that an AI can simulate a human mind or 'humanity's mind'
some will say that it should reflect the values of the civilization that creates it -- american liberal values? i'm a pretty hardcore fukuyamist and even i'm not 100% convinced enough that this is the end of ideological history to encase it in amber
@greenTetra_ neither of those things even mildly raise the thermometer in comparison to the things that liberalism has survived throughout history -- still very much at the end of history
someone being outwardly mad all the time about perceived societal injustices is a personal failure no matter how you dress it up
if you're not able to have fun in postscarcity at the end of history you would've never had fun
btw this language sounds right wing but equally applies to ppl constantly bemoaning the moral decay of society and was inspired by jk Rowling’s timeline
was at a house party the other day when a dude told that me that he unfollowed me because “you are using underhanded rhetorical tactics i learned about in Harvard Debate Team”
@nickcammarata if you don't look at the factorio screen and feel the gods of technocapital take over your body to maximize imaginary numbers do you even have a soul?
@__femb0t@BuyTheIndex i don't see how the genetic algorithm knowing anything is relevant at all lol
life is highly optimized and critical core components are minimized regardless
there are whole creatures evolved to lie on the ocean floor not letting any food particles go to waste
@__femb0t@VansianMagic@embryosophy@BuyTheIndex you’ve lost the plot
of course I’m using an appeal to nature! the tweet is ironic and tries to reverse the twitter schizo tendency to call technologists bugmen
@__femb0t@VansianMagic@embryosophy@BuyTheIndex you’re taking the adversarial defn of efficient and getting mad at this
obviously the evolution algorithm is quite costly. the output organisms are incredibly hyper optimized for their niches
so say we on our daily prayer: fukuyama was wrong, "the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands" will be more than enough to provide us our glory
ok so this mf alexander arrives at punjab in india and fights king Porus. the greek historians say he won but sustained so much damage they had to leave
but neither this battle nor king porus are ever mentioned in indian sources. and alexander lost to a regional lowbie king? sus
social media is actually a smarter and bigger brain medium than tv. it reverses the trends that neil postman describes in “amusing ourselves to death” by forcefully making us engage in the active written medium again
engaging & responding to the average tweet, which tends to be full of subtext and meta cultural references, requires far more horsepower than passively consuming the evening news
latter two complaints are bolt ons to round out the narrative. ads don’t meaningfully make anybody’s youtube experience worse and amazon has never delivered more logistical wonders https://x.com/micsolana/status/1507010384619733005
@peachblvd@michaelcurzi however hes wrong bc everything interesting in our solar system is only light hours away and everything outside of it is light years away so there's no optimal romantic zone of tense waiting
the thing about new york people is that they have the impressive air of someone giving a world historic speech, gravitating the attention mass of the room like a character in the Iliad, but instead they’re a corporate lawyer for a pharmacy benefits management co
got clowned for saying this too early on in the invasion but was right
American culture reins more or less absolutely [and this is not good]
there shouldn’t even be a monolith of American culture inside America and yet exceedingly there is
@growing_daniel i'm not really drawing a major distinction between the us and uk right now
jk rowling isn't the active player here, she hasn't said anything original, and what happened to her isn't original - the entire culture war + cancellation setup is classic american
@growing_daniel even in the 60s i would wager there were strong regional accents, state level politics were more important than national politics, different areas had different cultural issues etc where much of that is flattening
but in yet other ways i agree it's more diverse
when going out you need to make a choice:
1) boys night. sausage party. you can just invite everyone in the phone book and tell them to pull up. barbarian vibes
2) coed night. Delicately maintain the gender ratios. invite only the boys who can hang or have gfs. civilized vibes
media that’s optimistic stops being art and transitions into propaganda. the only two story types that people respect are unfortunately tragedy and comedy
ppl on here will treat following someone as a contractual obligation. they’ll hate the other persons guts but refuse to unfollow first. likewise they’ll unfollow someone whose content they enjoyed bc the other person unfollowed
this is called insufficient autism
people complain that Tesla autopilot is misleading marketing because it doesn’t fully take over control. these folks have clearly never studied real autopilot
the funniest political ideology on here may be the reflexive "a better world is not possible". these tend to be nerdy legalists who will painstakingly and instinctually defend any event that happens in the entire chain of causality. "this had to happen exactly as it did"
i far prefer the more opportunistic machiavellian conservatives who are just seeking power rather than blindly worshipping authority (including the authority of real event flow)
@antoniogm@firasd@MonkAaronius i think it's much much higher on the aggression scale considering the other person is a comedian who is paid to make jokes at your expense and they are at widely watched public event
@sonyasupposedly@visakanv kind of shocked by how pseudo right wing anons will rightfully defend a comedian's ability to say pretty much anything until it comes to this. this is just aggressive social justice under a different guise
how many levels of simulation and simulacra are you on my dude?
L0: reality
L1: movies and art
L2: award shows about movies
L3: metadrama at an award show tangential to the awards
@youngnemo101@sonyasupposedly@visakanv I don’t respect it at all it was an anodyne joke and he lost control of himself. It’s the equivalent of watching a man jack off on a bus. be a human not an animal
reminder that when exa-dark sideræl arrived at hereticon 20xx with a cyborg they/them army to slaughter 10 million heretics the first words she/they said is “uwu”
one whitepill on india has been the extreme success of bollywood over the course of like 100+ years. there are mfers in japan watching bollywood movies. meanwhile there's barely any international chinese media industry to speak of
@mattparlmer lol that would be the end of russia as a distinct civilization, which honestly maybe good for them because the current one seems to have failed
there are LW types running major tech companies half the industrial AI labs and potentially in British government and people will still hope there’s a cooler second group somewhere https://x.com/dissociates__/status/1508645355969257479