Amoeba_Girl

WAITING FOR HER LIFE TO END SHE DESERVES HER DIVIDEND

me when i get a captcha

How is it confusing??? Do you only know about two movies?

In the ancestral environment, infection was a top killer. Today it’s a rounding error. Our immune systems are therefore set by evolution to be far too sensitive for the modern environment. Bro what. We keep producing stronger bacteria. Somehow I’m hoping that this is the usual eugenics rather than abject stupidity.

Tesla has not gotten clearance from safety regulators to deploy vehicles without features such as brake pedals, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it had opened an investigation into whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards. The fuck do you mean opened an investigation. I don’t care that the US are a fake made-up country, there is no conceivable world in which you can legally put random shit on public roads without some kind of permit.

Quick search and from somewhere else the company relied on self-certification, the standard method automakers use to affirm compliance with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards without pre-approval from regulators. NHTSA can audit that self-certification at any time, and it has now requested the engineering data and testing records Tesla used to reach its conclusion you can’t be fucking serious

Okay I have questions about the logistics of this that are not touched on in the article. Namely, how do they synchronise cum

If I have a billion trillion dollars but 20% of the population hates me, but I get to live in a giant solid gold mansion with an army of servants keeping the 20% away from me, have I really failed? I don’t know, you tell me.

No.

I’m not going near your solid gold mansion by the way, that’s a death trap!

girl i think you need a better agent

What the hell kind of prompt is this oh my god. I’m getting bored just contemplating the idea of trying to think up a story.

I keep free-associating this idiot with eigenrobot and maybe that’s unfair to them. They’re insufferable and smug and always confidently wrong, but maybe they’re not also a huge racist.

Isn't it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it's thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?

HN:

The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?

tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.

So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.

Ah, so he is part of the broader eugenics community, what a surprise.

Like, in other words, I don’t think most mathematicians are particularly interested in building huge datacenters to brute-force compute quintillions of decimals of pi under current algorithms? Because the point is understanding, not mere knowledge? I dunno!

Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out). yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo

The irony being that the chatbot does seem to have access to a list of relevant, non-slop websites, or at least some sort of way to rank searches by reliability, which of course they would never implement in the human-usable search engines.

I mean, I don’t know, my confusion comes from also seeing a lot of mathematicians react as if mathematics are over and that it sucks that the future is all about checking AI proofs. And I suppose it’s unpleasant when a sort of maybe authoritative entity comes out of nowhere and tells you the answer to your favourite problem is 42 and doesn’t elaborate. But I feel like I might be missing something as to why this is a big deal.

“If you believe there’s low odds for doom, it’s a rational position.” What! No it’s not! It’s low odds of an infinitely bad outcome! How have you managed not to actually learn anything worth learning from Pascal’s wager?

I don’t have hard data but I bet you a million dollars that an overwhelming majority of movies have the same name as another movie. Let alone movies that use a pre-existing phrase as the title.

Is the Pope Catholic? If ever in doubt ask him about abortion and gay marriage.

It’s amazing, I saw it once randomly from some obnoxious bluskyer and I saw it a dozen more times today. It’s nice they all got the press release!

At this point, when I’m looking up something that hits me with pagefuls of links to barely relevant vibecoded scam websites, I’d rather ask a fucking chatbot. At least it’s usually (?) able to give me links to real websites. Very much a choose your flavour of infuriating slop situation.

also maths are not a science there i said it

I suppose what it comes down to is, if OpenAI couldn’t be bothered to try and elucidate their results, or even try to separate nonsensical exploits from genuine proofs, I don’t understand why mathematicians shouldn’t treat all of it as worthless instead of doing unpaid PR work for them.

Giving young children free access to Ayn Rand books is abuse

It’s really fucking me up the way AI boosters and friends are treating mathematics as a natural science whose goal is to uncover mathematical facts in the number mines. I’m not even staunchly opposed to platonism, but my god. That’s not even how natural science works! Random idiot on r/singularity That stance assumes we still need to fully understand the manual mechanics in order to apply the end result. ​Saying we lose out on the “journey” is like an 18th-century laborer complaining that the steam engine will create a society where no one has the endurance to swing a 20-pound hammer for a full 12-hour day. Do we lose something through abstraction? Absolutely. And I understand why people would mourn that. But do we need to have the endurance to swing the hammer to build a modern skyscraper? ​>We aren’t losing the ability to do math, we are just moving up a layer of abstraction, transitioning from the laborers to the architects. Also look out for the new obnoxious metaphor of “what if aliens descended from the sky and handed us their science and proofs, how is this different”. First of all shut up. Secondly we should assume the aliens in this scenario have reason, intent, and the ability to communicate through language. You’re imagining they’re using the scientific method and not divination from wiggling their proboscis in the fourth dimension. Which is quite different from OpenAI’s big dump on scientific practice.

I mean, fair enough, but can you explain how that impacts your decisions? What does panpsychism imply in matters of ethics or epistemology? Does it matter that the air you breathe can be thought of as in some way conscious?

They literally do. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story

I’m not at all a mathematician and mostly bad at understanding things, but, is an unwieldy proof that’s barely comprehensible and might be relying on multiple layers of bugs and traps and whatever undefined edges of formal proof systems even a proof at all? Does it actually merit consideration outside of pure spite (understandable)?