Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

Finally we have a good usage for the nuclear waste warnings, we put all the copies of their music there.

"This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours."

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, he even gets mentioned by xkcd in the same breath as Stallman or Linus. (That it turns out the latter is the least worse of the three (he actually realized that being an asshole was bad) is quite the surprise).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Gasp

This is just like the fall of Rome.

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

According to jwz the current leadership of bsky isnt much better, but I have not looked into it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

holy fuck, I’ve seen anti-trans accounts on mastodon spew this same shit and I’m kind of surprised it’s a wider conservative conspiracy theory and not something local to mastodon

I think Blanchard started with this one. If you needed more proof the guy is an absolute case of brain worms. (E: Here is the source)

E: I wonder what caused the sudden public appearance of more trans people, anime? Or the change in laws about a decade ago where most of the western world stopped sterilizing and going after trans people. (it is nuts that the terfs never bring this up, so worried about trans healthcare perhaps causing some permanent changes while ignoring that very recently that sterilization was mandatory in most of the western world (A law in .nl between 1985 and 2014 for example). Fucking assholes.)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

I guess including 4chan in the training data was a mistake.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember how the book seeing like a state tried to warn people about this. If only it had bot been reviewed by Scott, EA could have been warned.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Imagine what other flaws these cars have if the tried to 'innovate' like this on the solved technology that is fucking doors.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

look, they are just neutral and balanced, and pretend awful.systems and sneerclub don't exist because they don't even mention it.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

What is worse? Trump explaining urbit and coming close? Or him explaining it so wrong you feel the need to set the record straight about the gravest misconceptions? ("Trump said Elon invented it, but it actually was Yarvin, also as Elon didnt invent it, he certainly didnt say 'good idea sir' to Trump").

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

Could be they are sharing a bit of a media bubble. In 2016 there was a bit of a (pre election) "he will win in a landslide" thing due to Scottbert.

 

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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