this is big talk coming from beginner cult founder funded by thiel, a failed lawyer

i’m all in for banning ai dc buildout until they build all the required nuclear powerplants

are they just reinventing clippy but now it will remind you about eating your daily recommended pebble?

one struggle https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests-a3617881.html

wait, how much compute would they need for this, ignore patent absurdity of it all for a minute? would they wrap it up under 1 quadrillion dollars?

crazy how techbros understand consent (to be recorded all the time) only when it impacts them personally (i assume that was the main problem)

i assume this is in relation to this cognitohazard

they’re doing “yes/maybe later” on the public with this

behind the bastards did a 4-parter on him and he was always like this, down to cartoonishly evil backstory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXbyQ9KFdg

no, you see, exchange of opinions with charlie kirk was supposed to work like this: you get in with your opinion and leave with his

new extreme strain of catholicism: life begins at conceptualization

is that this circular economy i hear so much about?

death will be defeated as long as it stands in the way of profits (man i fucking hate it there)

idk you could put nestle water draining activities there and it would fit the pattern

probably offtop? bad tech killing people, no need for imaginary robots, just greed https://xcancel.com/hntrbrkmedia/status/1968661471056769252#m https://hntrbrk.com/dexcom/

how come it’s always right wingers hiring paid protestors

it’s like there was an industry made entirely out of bullshit jobs

“synthetic data” is just signal-shaped noise in strictest terms

the piece was about ai dc buildout

there was a post shared out there recentlyish (blogpost? substack? can’t find it. enjoy vagueposting) that was about how ai companies have no clue what they’re doing, and compared them to alchemy in that they also had no idea what they were doing, and over time moved on to more realistic goals, but while they had funding for these unrealistic goals they invented distillation and crystallization and black powder and shit. and the same for ai would be buildout of infra that can be presumably used for something later (citation needed).

so comparison of this entire ea/lw/openai milieu to alchemists is unjust for alchemists. alchemy has that benefit on its side that it was developed before scientific method was a proper thing, modern chatbot peddlers can’t really claim that what they’re doing is protoscience. what is similar is that alchemy and failed ea scifi writers claim that magic tech will get you similar things. cure for all disease (nanobots), immortality (cryonics or mind uploading or nanobots), infinite wisdom (chatbots), transformation of any matter at will (nanobots again), mind control derived from supreme rationality (ok this one comes from magic), synthetic life (implied by ai bioweapons, but also agi itself). when chinese alchemists figured out that mercury pills kill people and don’t make them immortal, there was a shift to “inner alchemy” that is spiritual practices (mental tech). maybe eliezer &co are last alchemists (so far) and not first ai-safety-researchers