@zackmdavis Protip: Trans girls are the most evangelistic section of LGBT, and if you're on their visiting list you can tell them to leave like any other Mormon. Even if you're a soft snuggly sissy or a crossdresser. You're not being uniquely targeted Zack, you just get hung up about it.
@SamoBurja Bit of Thielian inspiration?
blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/245786838… https://t.co/E5OvMVKZQU
A true modern retelling of the Jesus myth would have him performing miracle after miracle to an apathetic audience steadfast in its unbelief.
"“What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?”—so asketh the last man and blinketh."
- Nietzsche
@ESYudkowsky If I was sent back in time 20 years, the first thing I would emphasize over and over is that in the future communication is impossible so you need to line up all the social resources you'll need now in the dreamtime.
@c64f7e94 @ESYudkowsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v.….
@ESYudkowsky It's made all the more tedious by how stereotyped the blockers are, how predictable and painful the miscommunications. A poor theater performance with scripted characters playing out their destined failure is still the best metaphor I've seen.
youtube.com/watch?v=pjCAF6…
@nicestnisus @DrunkAustrian "A communist is a dead man walking, find me six such men and I will take over the world."
— Attributed to Lenin
Final epoch (31) of the danbooru 500m diffusion training, model out once inference script is done and training tips written up.
Soon (TM) x.com/jd_pressman/st… https://t.co/GmbGysvhNy
Congress controlling its own pay is a key design flaw in the American republic.
Not because they vote themselves more money, but the opposite: They have no incentive for their position to pay the market clearing price for those worth having as members of congress. https://t.co/gwRwBnIv2T
The Moravec Transfer
Prompt: illustration of a metallic sphere with tentacles thinking about the function of a neuron neurons wiring dendrite brain connectionism, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers ImageNet/Danbooru/WikiArt 128/128/128/256]) https://t.co/HIis7PNFSa
Prompt: illustration of a marquee on a busy nightlife city street, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers / @RiversHaveWings WikiArt 256x256]) https://t.co/XSPzMPiOCM
Prompt: illustration of a cyberpunk noir riot on a busy nightlife city street, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers / @RiversHaveWings WikiArt 256x256]) https://t.co/64T0yqtkjW
King Of The Podcasts Summons His Subjects
Prompt: orchestra conductor leading a chorus of sound wave audio waveforms swirling around him on the orchestral stage, control the soul, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers / @RiversHaveWings WikiArt 256x256]) https://t.co/I3eJM7my5K
Prompt: anime exoskeleton cybernetic dock workers unloading cargo, concept art, matte painting, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers / @RiversHaveWings Danbooru 128x128]) https://t.co/QIGmx9sQhR
Prompt: anime control room monitors televisions screens computers hacker lab, concept art, matte painting, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Chainbreakers / @RiversHaveWings Danbooru 128x128]) https://t.co/2iBGnkWHvq
@Duesynapse @RiversHaveWings More magic, more wizard-ish imagery
@PrinceVogel @chaosprime gizmodo.com/the-faa-change…
EY warned against this interpretation of EA for precisely this reason:
readthesequences.com/Rationality-Co… x.com/benkuhn/status… https://t.co/r2IK9s1hDQ
Prompt: a face like the cosmos, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [Danbooru 128x128]) https://t.co/eaHbZMTinc
tfw you undergo the slow realization that most of the discourse on your corner of Twitter is just millenials violently screaming as they ungracefully enter old age
I'm gonna have to start unfollowing people soon and it sucks because I really liked their work before they got obsessed with hating on NFTs or gushing over 'web3' like that means something and they're desperate to stay relevant.
@pt I'm going to try something different than what I usually do here, which is say "OK, millennial" in my head and roll my eyes.
> An entirely different thing you don’t own
Can you please explain as many of the intuitions going into this judgment as possible so I can debug?
I can't believe the crypto bros killed the culture wars by finding something people want to argue about even more than critical race theory.
@yashkaf @michaelblume You're not prepared for the discourse that lays dormant once people realize the intersection of sex work acceptance and sexual harassment discourse is realizing that unwanted sexual attention in the workplace is unadvertised, unpaid sex work as a job requirement.
@pt That sounds less like a problem with the technology and more a problem with the dynamic where early adopters get rich.
As a hypothetical, what incentive structure/origin story would you like to see that creates a functioning network worth using with more egalitarian payouts?
@pt Fair enough, I think that rhetoric is overblown too. You need to be extremely online to think that 'The People' is adequately represented by the sort of person with a picrew NFT avatar of an ape smoking a blunt.
@deepfates Should have screenshotted it.
@deepfates https://t.co/gowKIpEZZd
@MissAmyTobey @AlreadyTheRobot Some actual numbers on this for context:
x.com/RiversHaveWing… https://t.co/7oW7T9IpjU
You sell one SHA256 hash and everyone loses their minds.
@VividVoid_ "Despite all this, I compare these risks to the risks of eating one extra strip of bacon per day and decide that overall this is not enough for me to stop prescribing stimulants to patients who I think might benefit from them."
slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/add…
@VividVoid_ The reluctance to loudly advocate more stimulant use is one of the tells that a lot of contemporary transhumanism is fake.
@VividVoid_ @deepfates A lot of the real problem is when your economy is dominated by unnecessary anti-inductive games stimulants mostly translate into the same level of wealth but now everyone is on stimulants instead of more economic growth. If your economic activities are actually +sum its good.
@VividVoid_ @deepfates So your opinion on this is going to depend a lot on how much of our society you model as engaging in positive sum games vs. adversarial anti-inductive games with few positive externalities.
@stedmanhalliday @deepfates @VividVoid_ Fun fact: Benzos (unlike any common stimulant) have a lethal withdrawal but are routinely given as an anti-anxiety med. One of the more bizarre bits of psychiatry.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ This has not been my experience. Stimulants make it easier to get hung up on one way of looking at a problem, reducing one kind of creativity while boosting others. 'Creativity' is overrated in positive sum work and anti-inductive games require you to constantly be creative.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ e.g. Some creativity is sampling a larger hypothesis space. Generating 8 hypothesis to evaluate for a problem instead of the usual 1 or 2. Stimulants make this easier because it's mostly effort based. But the distribution those hypothesis are sampled from might narrow.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ At the same time it's not as straightforward as that, amphetamines are well known to induce psychosis at high doses. In fact they are so reliable at doing this that they're often used as a laboratory model of psychosis. I've found Adderall can make a chance insight more likely.
@chaosprime You forgot the punchline, which is that this is driven by the demand to make systems easier to configure at vast scale at the expense of the home user. Which makes total financial sense for the developers of the Linux ecosystem, but it's still unfortunate if you're not Amazon.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ On further reflection I think a lot of my bullishness on universal basic modafinil/amphetamine comes down to two basic axioms:
1. Holes don't learn to get harder to dig in response to you digging them: honest, materialist labor benefits more from work than creativity.
(Cont...)
@deepfates @VividVoid_ 2. Anti-inductive domains have so many incentives towards cheating/advantage that only the most draconian, insane anti-drug policies could stop them from coming into play if they're beneficial. Recall this thread started with the observation power players already use stimulants.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ Even if you're pessimistic about how much of our economy is positive sum games, stimulants seem likely to leave the zero sum games at equilibrium while giving disproportionate advantage to people digging holes.
There's an entirely separate discussion about labor autonomy though.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ Did I hear someone ask for an encore?
Gladly.
As far as the labor autonomy argument goes, there's a kind of Huxleyian perspective that says "drugs that make it easier or more enjoyable to work suppress revolution, hack values so the unacceptable is tolerated".
(Cont...)
@deepfates @VividVoid_ And this goes unchallenged usually, but if we shift perspectives a bit it becomes obvious this is basically accelerationism. Like what's the actual argument here? People need to suffer so that the social change I want happens faster. And my basic objection is it doesn't work.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ We've more or less had a natural experiment along these lines going for decades now. Stagnant wages and degrading work have produced lots of resentment, lots of misery, but none of that has translated into meaningful social change, let alone revolution.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ Or rather it has translated into social change, but nearly none of it is positive. Instead you get malthusian, zero sum thinking. Existential nihilism, mass scapegoating and puritanism. How many 'social justice' outbursts we've witnessed are thinly suppressed economic rage?
@deepfates @VividVoid_ And the reason it doesn't work is it's based on a bunk theory of revolution.
x.com/robkhenderson/…
Revolution happens when empowered, marginal people unhappy with the status quo decide to try changing it. Not when the impoverished masses get so fed up they revolt.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ Consider what the closest things we've witnessed to revolution have looked like so far. Crypto, GameStop, decentralized web, widespread piracy, Bernie 2016, the Trump election. They're characterized as much by an exuberant overflowing energy as they are rage, if not much more so.
@deepfates @VividVoid_ Making people more put upon and miserable in day to day work doesn't get you a faster revolution, it keeps the stagnant and sadistic system in place longer. The first steps of movement building for people like Mao was getting workers the resources they need to think and organize.
👏BUILD👏THE👏SPACE👏GUN👏
👏IMPUTE👏THE👏ANCESTORS👏
👏BUILD👏THE👏NUCLEAR👏REACTORS👏
👏MINT👏THE👏GEESE👏AS👏NFTs👏 x.com/atroyn/status/…
tfw the crypto discourse occurs among people who suffer from fractal innumeracy https://t.co/mJblzHglNJ
Gotta be honest, I didn't expect them to react to being told proof of stake exists by *gaslighting people about it*.
x.com/Canine_Princes…
That's on me of course, insufficiently pessimistic about their character.
Broke: They hate NFTs because of environmental impact and art theft.
Woke: They hate NFTs because identity politics is the picrew of ideas and NFT avatar projects compete with it.
Kind of guy that says "One cannot remain where the alpha is too shallow" and exits the group chat.
You either die based, or live long enough to fail to notice yourself become cringe.
@textfiles Free 1 billion parameter diffusion model for image synthesis trained on Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100m:
x.com/RiversHaveWing…
Evacuating A Dying World
Prompt: illustration of starlink satellites xanadu Geosynchronous orbit around earth in space, trending on artstation
(CLIP Guided Diffusion [@RiversHaveWings OpenAI 512x512 ImageNet Uncond Finetune]) https://t.co/qUbSBfL98n
If you just right click saved the image you didn't get the whole NFT.
@CO_EQ @deepfates A bit of DAO theory for you
@DanielCJonas In the last year probably youtube.com/watch?v=LJCLUh…
@DanielCJonas youtube.com/watch?v=lg9_Lt…
This goes with it, actually. Variations On A Cloud is a combination reflection on the end of Tally Hall and 9/11.
@jobbyoriginal_ @Joeythemonste @RiversHaveWings Unofficial notebook: colab.research.google.com/drive/1YqXnjwa…
@jobbyoriginal_ @Joeythemonste @RiversHaveWings If you have a local GPU you can use this repo: x.com/RiversHaveWing…
@vgr fimfiction.net/story/69770/12… https://t.co/PKuwCHVimO
@PrinceVogel It's all fun and games until somebody has to manage the nuclear stockpile.
@PrinceVogel Frankly, our timeline calls out for a mid 20th century imperial scifi technocracy, instead we get Trump and Biden.
@PrinceVogel You think when I write this stuff it isn't a warning? If you think WW3 with China or Russia is a solution to our COVID slump you are absolutely insane.
greaterwrong.com/posts/kFRn77Gk… https://t.co/we9lq4RUwc
@PrinceVogel https://t.co/YGZvJrWVKD
So is anyone else really concerned by the idea of thousands of strangers forming an overnight initiative to buy a priceless artifact? What's their incentive to be good stewards when ownership and responsibility is diffused across a mob? x.com/WillPapper/sta…
@jennelikejennay Any of a dozen colab notebooks will do the thing, do you have an example of what you're looking for?
They haven't even realized yet that Web 2.0 was about control of volunteer labor, that the dominant pattern in that game turned out to be capturing everyone's attention and directing every ounce of it you can into diffuse coercion through memetic war machines.
Millennials see blockchain operations costing money as profiteering because they're used to "Web 2.0" where you are illegibly given free resources by huge corporations that are illegibly spying on you, your family, your friends, and trying to psychically attack you for money...
Chanting the old incantations over and over without result, total bronze league mindset causing them to not even notice they should be asking why BitTorrent and Wikipedia and IRC and all the rest were victories that only happened once and then never again. https://t.co/0pTUzljwRi
The only paradigm millennials understand NFTs in is DRM and norm violation, the idea of postmodern goods escape them.
x.com/eevee/status/1…
Turning donations into Veblen status goods is prosocial. Making provenance easy to track in art markets is competitive. Few understand.
Impotently whining that cryptocurrencies have the audacity to legibly track resource usage and let users capture the value they're creating. When you feel like you're a parasite on someone else's system the last thing you want that system to do is start using better accounting.
Stuff like BitTorrent only happens when there's energy to be extracted by leeching off the existing copyright media industrial complex. NFTs are creating their own media machine from scratch, few understand the implications of this.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Who is himself responding to this take:
x.com/acczibit/statu…
Samo Burja also thinks it's about DRM as norm:
x.com/SamoBurja/stat…
Few understand that early adopters getting outsized returns is an essential part of the deployment process. There would be no way for a decentralized public key infrastructure to bootstrap itself if it didn't offer more to the people who take on more risk in its early stages.
You will not beat centralized services who can marshal millions of dollars to make the 'best', most addictive user experience and reliable servers and foist themselves onto every phone until you have a mode of organization that is better than a league of HAM radio operators. Few.
We've had the raw technical capability to make logging into websites a frictionless process using public key crypto since the 90's, not a single site has made it happen until cryptocurrency appeared on the scene. Logging into OpenSea with MetaMask blew my mind.
It's norm brain all the way down, offense think. These people don't care about the technical and social problems of making decentralized services exist in a sustained way because they think free shit is their birthright. It's all they have after the boomers took everything else.
Few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few understand few few few few few few few few few few few few few few few few few
fucking nobody.
@deepfates https://t.co/agO8IwZhdF
@camwiese Centralization. You can have solar on your roof but nobody thinks you can have a backyard nuclear reactor.
@deepfates @PrinceVogel https://t.co/qS8eA8MZy7
@mattparlmer What part do you find unconvincing?
Haters are alpha and it's why they're beloved. x.com/mattparlmer/st…
@SamoBurja Behold the most obnoxious essay I've read in years, by this kind of guy: conradbastable.com/essays/elite-u…
@tonytribby @Pavel_Asparagus Hic Et Nunc, maybe.
x.com/zerohedge/stat… https://t.co/ViDUCG26Mv
@zerohedge https://t.co/eZ1J9qimXK
@tonytribby @Pavel_Asparagus Well yes, but actually no.
x.com/TheArtNewspape…
@tonytribby @Pavel_Asparagus tl;dr: The blockchain + IPFS combo meant it was possible to mirror the site within 36 hours and continue operations seamlessly with the help of 3rd party ecosystem participants.
@tonytribby @Pavel_Asparagus x.com/dns/status/146…
@SpencrGreenberg Machine for taking smart young people with loads of potential career capital and reducing their variance/risk taking in favor of earn-to-give + steady finance job. Doing this in a world where all hope lies in the tails seems disastrous.
@SpencrGreenberg ETG has become less the message for boots on the ground, but that's partially because boots on the ground have been more or less abandoned after getting access to billionaire treasuries. Contemporary EA seems like a front to legitimize the philanthropic decisions of such.
@SpencrGreenberg I don't really consider the current version of EA "a movement", so my criticism concerned when it was actually a live player/social organism that processed cause areas and picked winners.
2021 is magnificent I can't even. x.com/claybert32/sta… https://t.co/A3x4LyXqSJ
People massively overthink 🏳️🌈 dominance. The key is simple: identity politics is the picrew of ideas.
'aromantic', 'genderqueer', 'transbian'
These are template generated concepts.
Politik without grievance, generated entirely according to an internal symbolic logic.
Biology is the wrong model, economics is the right model to figure out what is going on. Economics and Girard.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
A thread. x.com/ExiledInfoHaz/…
It's also why scapegoating is so rampant among 'woke' movements and groups. They're based on pure Girardian mimesis and the scapegoating mechanism follows from it.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
"Web 2.0" in the Twitter sense is about farming Tumblr teens for cultural production.
Actually look at the contents of this playlist: Bo Burnham, Lemon Demon, Cosmicandy, Panic! At The Disco. It's differentiation for 0.5 SD weird people who want to be fun and quirky but aren't all that separated from average, have few talents, aren't blessed with strong intellect.
Because once social is a global competition operating on a power law, the vast majority of people are in the mediocre segment with low differentiation. These picrews are attempts to separate from each other identity-wise, without novel intellectual work or personal development.
And picrews are a cheap production method, they let you churn out crap for an adoring fanbase quickly.
youtube.com/watch?v=3MEYYP…
Stuff like this is mass culture, and it exists for the mediocre to try and differentiate themselves in a malthusian social environment.
🏳️🌈 is a literary criticism movement because fiction is the only thing mediocre people in our society have in their lives worth relating to. Your options to defeat them are to make media irrelevant, obsolete their production process, or make your own literary movement.
Comics are 🏳️🌈 because they are lobbied by the Tumblr-fandom cultural production machine to be that way, ditto cartoons. So long as that is the most productive mode of novel cultural production in our society 🏳️🌈 will dominate. It's just capitalism in a queer skinsuit.
Making media irrelevant and obsoleting their production process are left as an exercise for the reader.
Ratfic and the extropian-SL4 memeplex are the closest anyone has come to a coherent counternarrative to "well akshually scifi is for rich white vampires because the future is scarcity and climate change". Replying with: "No akshually nanotech makes this timeline impossible." https://t.co/pO0bPc1lBP
@ESYudkowsky x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@BenRatkey "Korzybski concluded that the ultimate cause of the first world war was a disparity in the rate of progress between physical and social science."
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Many of the good guys are growing slowly because they're unwilling to be obnoxious or share a brand/identity. x.com/JoshConstine/s…
If you go into an adversarial environment with the prior that it's inductive, you are the free energy. x.com/0xdoug/status/…
Imagine overthinking the outcomes of incentives towards yellow journalism this hard. Journalists went from a series of local oligopolies to malthusian perfect competition, all else follows. x.com/Delicious_Taco…
They engage in 🏳️🌈 politics for the same reason Tumblrites do, it lets them claw their way back up to monopolistic competition.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Prompt: control room monitors televisions screens computers hacker lab, concept art, matte painting, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/PJN9NUQ57K
Man With Utility Fog
Prompt: a geeky nerd man wearing AR alternate reality glasses standing with his arms crossed in a translucent sheen of turquoise fog, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/e1zHuQM8Vs
Twitter is a machine for finding the most frustratingly wrong person in the world and propelling them to stardom.
Trump was Lain. In this essay, I will
@ObserverSuns @parafactual https://t.co/3FcJXtFm01
@Alephwyr I still have the best one: x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@amirism_ youtube.com/watch?v=duQIG2…
@deepfates The slow march to becoming eigenrobot continues.
Prompt: scifi illustration of beautiful surreal cybernetic dragons flying through the sky, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/Z4Vk3dQPHa
The Suspended Man
Prompt: scifi illustration of the hanged man tarot card as a vertical metal ALCOR cryonics chamber pod containing a cadaver naked body suspended upside down hanging frozen in liquid nitrogen, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion) https://t.co/kZlYRmG7m3
@GreatDismal @vgr Prompt: scifi illustration of lord william gibson laughing on a throne of virtual reality headsets, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/xSh962rtEo
@pervocracy @luminousalicorn Related thread: x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Prompt: cyberpunk street scene of a geeky nerd man on jumping stilts doing a backflip over a taxi, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/9XoACrPkJf
Prompt: sketch of a 3D printer by Leonardo da Vinci
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/HsBFRxsjTH
Old one for comparison: x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@Guy_T_Sky @vgr GSBM imo isn't really about the intrinsic goodness or badness of the thing so much as a GSBM is something that is good at tricking you into thinking it can be a viable replacement for general intelligence. No formalization we have can do that on human hardware of course.
Homage to Catalonia is among Orwell's best, if not his best. x.com/Keyboard_WarZO… https://t.co/xsiT39ZRwH
Prompt: sketch of a VR headset by Leonardo da Vinci
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/cxMJln7KjS
@eigenrobot I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange
The Paperclip Maximizer
Prompt: cyberpunk cyborg man [swimming through a / sitting on top of a huge] pile of paperclips, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/1FQfwbPBCL
@TetraspaceWest Moloch gets up and looks over his Twitter timeline.
"YOU KNOW WHAT NOBODY HATES EACH OTHER ABOUT YET?..."
The Torment Nexus
Prompt: scifi illustration of the torment nexus, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) x.com/TetraspaceWest… https://t.co/poY5d6Mh6s
@DavidSHolz Feel free to suggest more.
@jxmorris12 @RiversHaveWings No it just does this, for some reason the nets attempts to understand Latin characters comes out looking like Cyrillic.
@ESYudkowsky The variants will continue until the FDA exhausts its political capital.
@PrinceVogel An accurate iceberg meme means the core insiders no longer see any value in keeping their secrets.
NFTs are fine art on the blockchain but detractors model it as intellectual property.
@PrinceVogel Prompt: "I can feel the birth pangs of the new world in bloom. It's so beautiful, and so dangerous, trending on artstation"
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/sQ3c6p3M2M
@apex_simmaps @RealAdamK The American pioneers had lifestyles based around the goods they could produce domestically, because there was no infrastructure for anything else.
Water filtering? Activated charcoal.
House cleaner? Caustic lye soap.
Shaving cream? Lye soap and lather brush.
Soap? Lye soap.
Etc
@elymitra_ It also ensures memetically fit ideas dominate.
@Outsideness Omnicron has SHODAN vibes.
@sudharshan_cb @PrinceVogel Not yet, but it will be.
@uberstuber Sometimes you talk until you find a feel for something new, and sometimes you feel something until you can put it into words. Neglect either and trouble is sure to come, the rest is commentary.
@uberstuber But this wouldn't help someone that far gone, because the trouble isn't any conceptual thing, it's that they've trained themselves not to notice their feelings. And per EY your feelings *are* your values so if you've stopped feeling them you de facto don't know what you want.
@uberstuber The real cure is probably shaped like "train yourself to associate ignoring your feelings with low status, expose yourself to environments where conspicuously ignoring your feelings as costly signaling is seen as cringe, etc" and let ego + social mirroring do the rest.
@uberstuber Only the most hardened cringemeister explicitly advocates ignoring your feelings, taking sys2 as sole authority. It's just that conspicuously ignoring your feelings to seem more rational is cheaper than actually being rational, so people will do it as a drinking contest.
@uberstuber "Hey look at me, I'm so RATIONAL right now" Bob says as he makes his friends and family miserable. That guy must be really really dedicated if he's willing to sacrifice so much for rationality, what a rational person!
This is toxic bad no good and you want to get away from it.
@uberstuber Worse still, effective rationality is often invisible while the toxic drinking contest stuff is obnoxious and loudly announces its presence, ensuring that it's the thing which is memetically fit while silent virtue withers.
@VividVoid_ He wrote it while dying of cancer, too.
Many such cases. x.com/deepfates/stat…
@SeanMombo What changed your mind?
@parafactual So do 20 different identity markers in your bio. The ugliness is a feature, not a bug here.
@parafactual I have an NFT avatar but nobody notices because it isn't ugly.
@jloganolson @PrinceVogel When we started selling NFTs it struck me that AI art methods would need art media descriptions like exist for physical galleries. So I contextualize every output I post with the method used to produce it. The current format I use is:
(General Method [Specific Model])
@jloganolson @PrinceVogel In this particular case, 'Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion' is the model architecture type, and then the specific model is 'Conceptual Captions 12 Million' trained by @RiversHaveWings on the Conceptual Captions 12 million dataset: github.com/google-researc…
@jloganolson @PrinceVogel @RiversHaveWings Without these art media descriptions the outputs would just be pretty pictures. Taking them seriously as art means paying attention to their specific production processes.
Prompt: Art deco illustration of a bank robbery, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/eqNjWdAmDv
Prompt: ascii art of a man riding a bicycle
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) x.com/devdef/status/… https://t.co/r1ClWubDXZ
@danielhmcnair x.com/danielrussruss…
I feel myself growing cold as thoughts of Peter Thiel riding a velociraptor swirl through my head. I draw my blanket around me more tightly, and mutter to myself, "trust the science... trust the experts..."
When the people fear the NYT there is tyranny, when the NYT fears the people there is liberty. x.com/CBCOttawa/stat…
@zackmdavis https://t.co/R7Sy0oLZw7
@qorprate Modernity is something like the materialist worldview that dominates discourse beginning in the 19th century. @nemocentric thinks of it as the point where X-Risk becomes something humans can notice because they realize life is fragile and cosmically rare.
No gods, no miracles.
@qorprate @nemocentric Postmodernity is the period starting roughly in the interwar years where people begin to realize that things like "logic", "rigor" and "science" are easily manipulated by controlling what hypothesis are to be investigated. This degrades "objectivity" back into the subjective.
@qorprate @nemocentric Says me of course, you said you wanted a perspective on it. I'm summarizing my gestalt understanding, if you want a blow by blow rigorous account that's more effort than you'll get out of a Twitter question.
@qorprate @nemocentric I mean, it's also the part where the peasants are kicked off their land so the former lords can mine dirtcoin on it by selling wool and other commodities.
@qorprate @nemocentric Okay actually I completely misread this post and thought you were the one asking, my apologies.
If your religion is not a fundamentalism, it is in the process of becoming a product.
If you want to know when the American system of government will collapse, consult an actuarial table.
Okay can someone tell me why Twitter Spaces cause preference falsification cascades but Twitter itself doesn't?
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