@JimDMiller @jayanthkumarak This sounds like an X-Risk unto itself.
@Ted_Underwood @RiversHaveWings "The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature." https://t.co/kSdqNuYXkW
Prompt: a propaganda poster for joining a decentralized social network
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) x.com/parafactual/st… https://t.co/Z5OMEr5Qkf
@lionel_trolling As it should be, really.
Prompt: illustration of a man picking up trash on the beach, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/M1H7cUqYZF
@everythingisfe1 The model used for these images is as of right now unreleased:
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@xenoarchives I'm not sure I understand who you're talking about.
There are no philosophers, only temporarily embarrassed philosopher kings. I conjecture CCRU, Extropians list, etc were the last wave of interesting ideas because people born any later than that can't imagine they will ever rule.
@flybottlemist @PrinceVogel Nietzsche isn't really math-materialist enough to be rigorous about that, but the impression I got was that he believed something like dynamism.
leftist infighting is just ensuring there's an efficient market in drama so people don't lapse in their opsec send tweet
@michaelcurzi Excuse me you have what
Prompt: the Vitruvian Man as a propaganda poster for transhumanism
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/AmMVhlXFNb
@ESYudkowsky I write a similar thesis here:
extropian.net/notice/A3DxEED…
@hamandcheese @Dominic2306 I write a similar thesis here:
extropian.net/notice/A3DxEED…
@egregirls Ah yes, now would be the time to start having premonitions of 2022.
Prompt: scifi illustration of a biological protein computer, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/NGpZpoDDYq
Prompt: a roulette wheel in the shape of a skull, art deco illustration
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/fuHAKk7LPV
Cosmic love is the feeling of providence when you realize a single asteroid contains trillions of dollars of untapped value waiting for you to extract it. 😍
I've pointed out before that the Western methods of control seem much more powerful than what China does. Could the Chinese elite get away with something like this? My intuition says they'd be eaten alive by rumors and popular rage. x.com/mattparlmer/st…
An oldie but a goodie for anyone who doesn't understand how that control works: https://t.co/SSvB0cz3D1
@mattparlmer https://t.co/3bzH9fH4cy
@nickcammarata Wait you can't control the voice?
@nickcammarata I had this moment in my late teens probably, where I said "I bet I could walk to the pantry and get crackers without an inner monologue". I then promptly walked to the pantry and got the crackers without an inner monologue. Worried if I did it too often it wouldn't come back.
Prompt: aerial shot of the grand coulee dam in the style of art deco
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/6tlcRRIEW7
Prompt: An N95 respirator mask in the style of art deco
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/XRpf6jRMZS
@benmschmidt @Ted_Underwood I declare by fiat that only doggo's support of your niche interests counts:
vm.tiktok.com/ZMRLw75sC/
@Ted_Underwood @benmschmidt Actually we're arguing about an ant or two. These models are about the size of a literal ant brain.
@nosilverv Saying something in manic voice doesn't make it true:
youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-…
Circumventing Maslow's hierarchy by feeding your atomized cyborg army neurcorrelates of love and connection in a pill as they rampage through the wired ruins of what was once society. x.com/nosilverv/stat… https://t.co/YdA5qWEIg4
@nosilverv > wish some of them were more fleshed out
Which?
@nosilverv I'm not familiar enough with the history to answer that in detail, honestly. But it seems fairly clear that the successful prevention of both war and revolution has kept these societies in a stable state of slow decay.
@nosilverv One esoteric interpretation is that things like schools exist to move the bell curve of greatness such that 'supermen' are out of distribution. That the entire post-WW2 economic order is an attempt to distract the next Mussolini or Lenin with cotton candy and prevent WW3.
@nosilverv The EU is also of course a WW3 prevention measure that works by subordinating European society to the US as a series of client states. We're now in the frustrating situation of our previous X-Risk prevention measures tripping up our ability to marshal resources to solve new ones.
@sameQCU @tszzl Can on Hic Et Nunc, actually.
@UrsulaV > Since most of the AI art programs output very small
Protip: colab.research.google.com/drive/1k2Zod6k…
Prompt: a vision of paradise. unreal engine
(CLIP + BigGAN) https://t.co/sLthKdpMZc
These are anachronistic in that they're done with ViT-B/16 CLIP but:
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@KrehnSolutions @RiversHaveWings This is the original, but results will be worse because it uses ViT-B/32 CLIP.
colab.research.google.com/drive/1NCceX2m…
Prompt: starry night by cyberpunk
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/NeCdeLDvrc
Prompt: a good amphetamine spirit
(BigGAN + CLIP [BigGAN-deep-512]) https://t.co/b4I1NVIMKN
Prompt: A Mysterious Orb by Andy Warhol
(BigGAN + CLIP [BigGAN-deep-512]) https://t.co/aTsLijqKA9
@KrehnSolutions @RiversHaveWings I'm not using that notebook to generate these, for what it's worth.
Before the end there will probably be some moment of calm anticipating the final storm where it would make sense for us to stop, breathe, then say our mutual goodbyes and parting thoughts.
We won't know that though so we'll spend it chaotically instead.
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
This isn't meant to be a commentary on anything in particular, it just occurred to me that:
1. This is both true and sad.
2. The best mitigation is probably to point it out early and arrange some time for us to do that before the natural point we'll all miss.
@deepfates https://t.co/f8jJLRgnef
Leftists want the market to be dysfunctional so people hate capitalism and rightists want social programs to be dysfunctional so people hate socialism. Together they create a country where nothing works.
Many such cases. x.com/hormeze/status…
@mattparlmer x.com/nickcammarata/…
@nosilverv I figured this out months and months ago when I was first looking to sell on NFT platforms and did my market research. It turns out the expensive NFTs are pretty much universally avatar series because NFTs are a social identity thing. Social identity is ugly, art is pretty.
@nosilverv There's no alpha in packaging up your understanding of the zeitgeist so other people who aren't even there can make money.
Kind of guy who one boxes on Newcomb's but believes the strong Efficient Market Hypothesis.
If you think the joke is "that $20 on the ground couldn't be real" you're ngmi.
2021 has been a crazy year for AI art! As part of an exhibit at @rechnenderraum I've generated 5 grids from a set of 64 prompts across different models @RiversHaveWings and I have used over the year. Grids have been made for BigGAN, WikiArt StyleGAN2, VQGAN, and CC12M. https://t.co/ITqe1SflL6
The 64 prompts used for the grids below. Each category is a column, so (1,1) is Lincoln and (1,2) is Obama: https://t.co/3pxG7AcvL8
As a bonus, the fifth grid is MetFaces2, which shows what these prompts look like when the model used with CLIP is limited to a narrow domain: https://t.co/mQMrkb1gf8
BigGAN + CLIP by @advadnoun was the first method we used in February, followed by the StyleGAN models in March/April, then VQGAN in April/May/June, and finally diffusion models such as OpenAI's 256x256 unconditional model from July onwards.
It's only 'baffling' if you don't think these people are in extreme bad faith, i.e. explicit saboteurs reaching for anything to stick to the plan (collapse/genocide in the form of 'degrowth') as things go sideways for them. x.com/patrickc/statu…
@LapsusLima @seagullsbutno @generativist x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@LapsusLima @seagullsbutno @generativist x.com/jd_pressman/st…
You just need to read one of the BoredApe people's timelines for 5 minutes to understand Tumblr Brutalism is history, they have the strongest aura of evil I've ever encountered. Tumblr can't compete with it.
The truth is if Hansonian ems were invented tomorrow a small army of hyperintelligent fetishists and psychic trauma cases would line up to be turned into capital first. There would be no shortage of volunteers.
@nosilverv Forgiving who you are for what you stand to gain.
Oh hey ZeroHP wrote a story about this:
zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/don… x.com/hypervisible/s…
@0xVatnik @RokoMijic x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@algekalipso The first one actually challenges my worldview in a way I suspect the other three don't. So that.
@Virtual1nstinct > ah so you're complicit in your own interpersonal commoditization.
I do this explicitly as an act of martyrdom/altruism.
@Virtual1nstinct I know it feels really smug and satisfying to try and diagnose people with traumas and psychiatric conditions they don't have over the Internet, but it's actually a really bad habit the postrats normalize and you'll cringe looking back on it later.
@Virtual1nstinct > if you define your worth by your heart, by your love and emotions
The real blackpill will be when it dawns on you, far too late, that there are no miracles at work in these either and they too can be replicated by capital. It's like the people who thought art was untouchable. https://t.co/lsKwTe6Z8k
@nosilverv This is a general pattern with online groups tbh. It happened to LessWrong too. LW starts off engaging with lots of outside ideas (e.g. cognitive bias, Bayes, the classic Sequences stuff) then degenerated into much as it started engaging mostly with itself.
@nosilverv The most deranged concepts are produced through incest, because they're adversarial examples against your ideology/blindspots/modal group phenotype.
Best cure is exogamy. Touch grass, read a real book that isn't a set piece in The Discourse, kiss someone.
@nosilverv 👏DO👏AN👏OBJECT👏LEVEL👏PROJECT👏
"There's a sense in which stating the thesis of postrat is to have refuted it." x.com/ESYudkowsky/st…
I knew postrat was dead cozy walking when I read this because it means COVID and the rest killed the animating spirit: Conspicuously fucking off while Rome burns. Enough of Rome is now burning that this is no longer possible. x.com/selentelechia/…
Could you all do yourselves a huge favor and not scapegoat each other trying to figure out who killed the vibe? You were always doing a perverse unsustainable thing and it isn't anyone's particular fault that thing is at the end of its lifespan.
@AmandaAskell To me cherry picking is synonymous with 'selection bias', which includes good and bad examples.
@prerationalist Yes this is precisely the behavior there is a fight over.
@nosilverv Couldn't imagine a more fitting bookend to the postrat saga than an intangible conflict over unstated differences while the remnants of the intellectual bloc head for the door during the commotion. Not schism, but exit.
@nosilverv Feel like a lot of the key to the latter is they optimize for gatekeeping them making you look/feel like a bad person. Only very high disagreeable people can do it reliably.
@nosilverv greaterwrong.com/posts/jP583FwK… https://t.co/lCnln27kQI
Postrat (n.)
Someone who escaped society to study the Vedas but ended up contemplating society instead.
For the people who wrote the Upanishads see x.com/eigenrobot/sta…
Do you ever get really tired and lay down to find yourself in the place between sleep and wakefulness only to suddenly shake yourself awake from having temporarily achieved no-self? Just the passive experience of bliss as an animal being under warm blankets, mind empty.
@jo1tickitsune @zakarum4 @killerstorm @eevee @PaulC04 @RiversHaveWings They do. That's why people jump ship from proof-of-work chains like ethereum to proof-of-stake chains like Tezos or Solana. @RiversHaveWings also refuses on principle to use proof-of-work chains because it's a waste of energy.
@nosilverv Funny I was just thinking today how my timeline is bad because I suppress my emotions and I suppress my emotions because joy would look like shouting "YOU PEOPLE ARE MAKING ME READ *ABSOLUTE GARBAGE* SO I CAN REFUTE IT" at the timeline.
@nosilverv e.g. I'm reading this right now and holy hell this lady is seduced by the cult leader because she has never encountered counterculture before and every page makes me cringe and I feel so bad for her but what does this have to do with LessWrong jfc
x.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
@nosilverv egregore that improves its rate of reproduction by making its refutation a tedious exhausting slog xD
@nosilverv And I know I can stop at any time right? Nobody is making me do this, I can just go read good things...
But then I remember that means I am ceding my side of the conversation to outright embarrassing garbage like this: x.com/ESYudkowsky/st…
Paranoid energy on the timeline today.
"If people end up feeling good and more open, they mistakenly conclude that whatever promoted it must also be true and good."
Reading The Guru Papers rn and it's mostly just reinforcing my existing belief that 'vibes' are an abuser concept. https://t.co/4K1OqR4yjS
"The word cult is used in a specific way to refer to groups with an authoritarian structure where the leader's power is not constrained by scripture, tradition, or any other 'higher' authority."
'Vibe' often means not "trust your feelings" but "trust MY feelings". https://t.co/Opo0anD9Yn
@sashachapin x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@sashachapin x.com/jd_pressman/st…
"No matter what position you take, you are always shown to be missing the point; the point being that the guru knows something you do not." https://t.co/D6J5LITGHF
I'll believe our society is starting to get its bearings when this 'joke' gets you arrested as an international terrorist. x.com/m1guelpf/statu…
gm Twitter
I'm trying this again now that the site is falling apart and I'm seeing Urbit in the wild more often. x.com/jd_pressman/st…
Prompt: cyberpunk tokyo street stall, trending on artstation
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/V7IIMsKdGI
@nosilverv In my upcoming postrat essay I criticize @QiaochuYuan's framing of LessWrong rationality as a cult for focusing its attention on the wrong kind of religion. It's much more akin to Protestant ideas of sola scriptura except Aquinas's book of nature is the source of consensus truth. https://t.co/4fQxMW7ieM
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan This is an A+ book by the way, very relevant to the subject. For example it gives you the opportunity to notice that the "Western Canon" is actually the religious education of a Protestant elite divorced from its original context of preparing a student to read the Greek bible.
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan amazon.com/History-Charac…
@algekalipso Would be curious what you think the commonality between those is. Is it something like ego/identity politik?
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan I also introduce the subject by noting that LessWrong Rationality was very much a failure for theoretically and sociologically unfixable reasons. An interesting and worthwhile failure from which many good things can sprout, but ultimately a failure:
x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@nosilverv @QiaochuYuan Partially feel like postrat has never gotten the critique it deserves because no author has been willing to start from the recognition that postrat followed from real updates and shifts in consensus around LW rationality which put the founding premises into checkmate.
@nosilverv @michaelcurzi @eigenrobot @slatestarcodex Your pinned tweet is literally about how you want to be a cow.
x.com/nosilverv/stat…
@nosilverv I mean define 'mistake theorist' here.
Most bullish statement on TikTok I've heard yet t.co/NoQ9oqoQAG
Prompt: entering into the realm of the transhumanist immortals in the 21st century dreamtime — Ross Tran
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/ireJ7gcvur
@chaosprime @ersatz_0001 Got em again, Satan.
@nosilverv > participants react to observation attempts by increasing their efforts to hide them
Hidden assumption in here that it is always possible to keep concealing the conspiracy by putting in more effort.
liberaugmen.com/#pattern-captu…
Regrowing a strategy is harder than losing a tactic.
@RokoMijic I personally know two real people this definitely happened to, long term/permanent loss of taste/smell going on 12+ months.
@nosilverv I know when I read mine I was still basically recognizable in it, you too?
@nosilverv When I was in 5th grade they taught us about ancient Egypt, and I immediately knew I was being lied to by omission because ancient Egypt had nothing to do with my life. Later in high school I pulled a book about the history of Soviet Russia off the shelf because it felt hidden.
@nosilverv I kept reading history books and biographies until I got a good idea of what things had happened in recent history and why. I also soaked in the various gurus of the zeitgeist like Paul Graham, Yudkowsky, etc. Eventually you get a good sense for what's important and what isn't.
@nosilverv I also obsessively read news services like Hacker News and Reddit until they stopped having insight for me.
@nosilverv Another important component was encountering people who made me anxious I might be wrong and kind of Aumann's Agreement Theorem engaging with them until I got to the bottom of the anxiety. A note of caution: This can get very toxic quickly, pace yourself and be kind.
if we just vibe long enough the arctic will flip to reveal a dance party waiting for us on the other side uwu x.com/nvpkp/status/1… https://t.co/Frgf6StRxH
> - can gambletech fix healthcare?
*squints*
You...you mean health insurance? x.com/erenbali/statu…
@tszzl How could outgroup do this.
Getting gaslit by a cozy about the existence of huge problems in the world? Just say no.
Cozies cannot gaslight you without your consent, if one tries send back a screenshot of a blackpill. They'll run screaming.
@visakanv I sell SciFi art NFTs and also take commissions, DM me for details on latter:
gallery.jdpressman.com https://t.co/VM0I8qPepT
@nosilverv You can believe both of these at once.
youtube.com/watch?v=nGmETz…
A better model is that those aspects of humanism and civil rights which benefit unrestrained capital are selected to be implemented, while those which impede it are delayed or memory holed. x.com/nosilverv/stat… https://t.co/o7Cb0Uoa5m
@Ted_Underwood @OpenAI @advadnoun @RiversHaveWings Sees through the charm of doctors and their wives~
youtube.com/watch?v=OkeqjO…
@nosilverv My upcoming essay, "Why I Am Not A Postrat"
@jackinlondon @meekaale @nosilverv x.com/jd_pressman/st…
@Meaningness > I am grumping about this because I’ve done days of reading philosophy that will probably get condensed into a single footnote in my next web page.
I know that feel. The worst part is that you know you did the research but have no clear way to costly signal this to the reader.
Kind of guy who declares themselves illegible by fiat, expecting to be immune to inference as if declaring oneself invisible rendered others blind.
If this is the dream time, then it stands to reason that as we pass into the singularity winners and losers will be chosen.
One by one the dreams will begin to die.
Is yours dead yet? x.com/SamoBurja/stat…
"Follow me into this carefully constructed trap of nested symbols I've constructed."
"No, actually. But thanks for the offer."
"But you're in bad faith if you don't!"
"I don't think that's how this works actually."
You, a peasant: Letting oils and residues from food get all over your electronics unless you wash your hands.
Me, rationalist autistic royalty: Wearing a vinyl glove for the salt and vinegar chips.
We are not the same.
Prompt: A vision of Santa's workshop, The machine elves making toys in the style of DMT
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/01ajXk4EUH
At the party of astrologers, the Christmas tide was due.
On the way to Aldebaran: the dance, the dream, and you.
Actuals and counterclaims dancing all the time
Dancing in the corridor and the dance was Time...
youtube.com/watch?v=iexgBF…
@Aella_Girl 1. Find group that is epistemically unsound but high openness and therefore deeply attached to words like 'curiosity'.
2. Describe them as incurious in frank, uncompromising terms.
3. Tweet to 90k person following.
4. Successfully hurt people who can only be taught through pain.
@nosilverv A great portion of my interest in the AI art is that it will let people do non-ironic visual expressions of their ideas and reduce the power of absurd nihilism.
Prompt: a crowd christmas carolers singing outside your doorstep in the snowy street, watercolor on canvas
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/FjZWNwBZBj
Prompt: a hacker's christmas full of retrocomputers, gadgets, and electronics around and on their workshop workbench
(Guided CLIP Conditioned Diffusion [Conceptual Captions 12 Million]) https://t.co/GzgOMVs2sv
So does anyone else remember the time our parents bought us common sense AI training sets that included nonexistent things like Christmas carolers?
youtube.com/watch?v=pLexpp…
Went back to take a look at this one by Humongous Entertainment and it's bizarre in retrospect.
What made this game so memorable for me is its unique, brutalist aesthetic, which is something like 'conceptual realism'. Everything is rendered as a cartoon, but the cartoons focus on the materialism of their subjects. Like photorealism in mspaint. https://t.co/qHVNe5TDsP
I don't think I ever played the full game, just a demo of it. But it was developed by Humongous Entertainment, most famous for their work on games like Pajama Sam and Spy Fox. Going from that to the beige 20th century modernism of Let's Explore The Airport was jarring but fun. https://t.co/4xmXpYEwJX
Let's Explore the Airport is made even more weird by its narrator Buzzy, who often shows up on a still matte painting to describe what is supposed to happen in it (presumably because they lacked the budget for more animation). This gives the game a creepy liminal space feeling. https://t.co/aPvEgFSOvd
"Children's media" is pretty much always propaganda. This moment where he Explains With Cheery Affect how he can't sleep on planes is a particularly revealing one, the core aesthetic lesson stated explicitly as "it's okay for modernism to uncomfortably control your body". https://t.co/RKW554YdZw
The most fascinating aspect of the game's educational content is the way it depicts modernism as a kind of designed fantasy world. Technical details are described in the same register as 'first class' and 'tourist class', sociology is engineered and baked into the plane design. https://t.co/0N5X8EXlsp
In conclusion: Does anyone know what the real name for 'conceptual realism' as an art style is? Because dang these illustrations are BOSS. What do I have to put into CLIP to get it to draw this 90's lo-fi materialist aesthetic? https://t.co/02Wh8lknT0
@vgr @deepfates > and the limits of disembodied computing.
Have any favorite papers/talks for this?
@ThanksThoth Jokes on you I love the tamagotchis.
@nosilverv Alright you're very close now, you just need to internalize the Hutter thesis and you'll be free of postrat.
@nosilverv https://t.co/sCCYAhFoEb
@nosilverv Things like vocoders use a predictor to reconstruct what someones voice probably sounded like over a low bandwidth channel. Prediction and compression are *direct analogues* unifying epistemology and probability theory. EY talks about Bayes but it should be information theory.
@nosilverv Very straightforward example: A diffusion model is trained by noising images until they're barely perceptible, and then training a neural network to reverse the noise steps. Given a sufficiently powerful model it can eventually reconstruct a facsimile of the image from near noise
@nosilverv Here's the magic: If you then take that model and present it with noise that never corresponded to any original image in the first place, it will dutifully hallucinate new imagery for you.
@nosilverv amazon.com/Silicon-Dreams… https://t.co/Dk8igPA2Gj
@nosilverv This is why e.g. Cartwright objecting to the idea of universal law on the grounds that you have to modify them for local situations doesn't really matter even if it's true, all you've done is insist that the laws are a lossy model satisfying optimality criteria.
Three Kinds Of Guy enter a scene together with the goal of having fun, mutually unaware of each others value function... https://t.co/gBjabm2jbD
@passiveye I think a lot of it is a kind of escapism, the idea of regressing back to a state of being taken care of by someone else. Giving up on 'adulting'. If your situation sucks and you're helpless to fix it why retain the pain-inducing machinery for noticing?
@nosilverv It's not really a mask, you just modify the image in memory and it infers what it was like. But otherwise yeah exactly.
@nosilverv But the really important thing is the idea that "predicts well" is the same thing as compression is the same thing as insight. Insight is when you can explain more of your experiences using a general rule or principle. Even if those rules are imperfect they're still high leverage
@nosilverv youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKB…
Another example: Mathematics had to be invented. But engineering existed before mathematics! How it worked was you built a building and recorded if it fell down. Huge libraries of empirical observations, math compresses that.
@ExistentialEnso The trick here is that these people only want a functional system if it plays to their comparative advantage (e.g. social organizing/norms/etc). i.e. They're not really on "team rich" or "team poor" but "team socially skilled" vs. "team principled systems".
@ExistentialEnso You will notice for example that the people that hate NFTs the most (e.g. furries) are the ones who have stable patterns of patronage built on complicated social norms which NFTs compete with. Furry is a good way to make money if you have friends, NFTs are accessible to outsiders
@ExistentialEnso restofworld.org/2021/inside-br…
@nosilverv Yeah, and once you internalize this a lot of weird confusions just dissolve. The map doesn't *represent* the territory it *compresses* it. If you find that sometimes weird artifacts result from that...what were you even expecting lmao.
If I was DanG I would close Hacker News as a brand embarrassment to YCombinator. In lieu of this, I petition to rename the site to "Hater News".
@ExistentialEnso Exhibit A: x.com/arthur_affect/…
@ExistentialEnso Such people are extremely useful for seeing the real animating force behind the thin veneer of 'reason' put over their reactionary opinions:
x.com/deepfates/stat…
@arthur_affect @ExistentialEnso I have been blessed, thank you. ❤️
@prerationalist They'll just make that 'rude' too, so make sure to record your results carefully and publicize them well.
@Alephwyr @varunramg I am absolutely down for prickly twitter.
@jack_meditates2 @nosilverv Obligatory other perspective: greaterwrong.com/posts/TiG8cLkB…
@deepfates I got put on this, I think someone is doing a bit.
x.com/i/lists/145562…
@deepfates Maybe I don't post enough math-aesthetic kitsch to qualify as a rat in vibe so I'm considered a postrat by default?
This is a very good post which is not advertised well here. It's providing an interpretation of the economy where success is achieved through access to debt (i.e. political coalition) rather than raw production of goods (i.e. ostensible social purpose of the economy). x.com/ben_r_hoffman/… https://t.co/0xKbOVsHAR
If you're not able to explain your obscure models in a series of concrete examples that's a code smell. x.com/Malcolm_Ocean/…
@Austen deccanherald.com/national/west/…
You need to be getting immune. You need to be putting on antibodies. You need to be maxxing constantly. Megadosing vitamin D3, K, fluvoxamine, moderna, pfizer, J&J, astrozeneca, radvac, variolation, smithglaxokline and P100 and face shield. You need to get a blood clot.
@jessi_cata "Sir, you are not 'based and vaxxmaxxed', you are under arrest for 13 counts of forging a vaccine card."
@egregirls Everyone makes fun of the dick pill companies but tbh that they're in the business of making money rather than selling dick pills implies they're some of the only dynamic capitalist elements in the economy (as opposed to managerial-corporate-aristocracy).
@alicemazzy IDK, I find that it's all bullshit kind of motivating tbh. Like, makes it clearer how much alpha there is left to extract. If everything was well managed, young people would be screwed.
@alicemazzy Definitely. To be clear things being bullshit is an emergency-catastrophe and should be fixed at the earliest opportunity. Just, it's not exactly a good reason to stop trying to do anything.
@alicemazzy One of the things I really enjoyed about Vagrant Holiday's video on train hopping is the way it accidentally becomes a documentary about the dysfunction of the American cargo train system:
youtube.com/watch?v=-PIP8N…
Had never heard of how bad it apparently is until then.
@vgr Going by your earlier threads you have no idea how quickly AI is going to arrive. https://t.co/XmddQzoXIa
@maybeelse Meanwhile on the cutting edge of mask technology:
microclimate.com/pages/detail-1 https://t.co/klJUG8pr5v
@maybeelse "Sorry honey, the HEPA filter collar and sealed helmet stay on during sex so I don't risk catching COVID. You wouldn't ask me not to use a condom would you?"
@nosilverv https://t.co/oUFe65JrEH
@nosilverv You're making a type error.
'Intelligence' is both operations. Compression is one, inference is the other.
@nosilverv Also "intelligence *is* compression" is a slight simplification. There's almost certainly other frames we could use to describe theoretically equivalent things we're reasonably certain are equivalent to intelligence. But compression is elegant.
@nosilverv My gestalt impression is that 'action' is the Fristonian answer to your question but I don't understand in detail how that's supposed to work right now.
@nosilverv But then I'm not sure anyone else in the thread giving it as a cached answer does either: https://t.co/JCEqSpvSaR
@s_r_constantin @HiFromMichaelV @jessi_cata Not just that but if the reasons you're untrustworthy are systemic/structural there is in fact an actual asymmetry in how well you can see the reasons you're untrustworthy vs. how well others can, it might not even be good to try convincing them you're trustworthy in principle.
@DrNickA @RokoMijic Got bad news for you, coronavirus immunity is usually short lived(?) so it might be regardless.
@DrNickA @RokoMijic Well realistically how this played out in the past was lots of people died from diseases all the time and we just sort of shrugged it off. Our society is not used to that equilibrium and won't be for a while, if this thing comes back every year to chip off 1% of the population.
@VividVoid_ You're really cheesy but it always felt rude to snark on it.
@VividVoid_ Nah I'm a jerk, but you're clearly making a lot of people really happy and I respect that. 🙂
Never forget how ahead of its time this game was.
youtube.com/watch?v=feY5Kh…
@NathanpmYoung Mm, only if they can actually temper expectations this time and admit that we simply don't know if it's possible for this not to turn into another tuberculosis.
As a bonus they could also hurry up with those nasal vaccines, people don't like needles.
@mattparlmer > Liberals and anarchists who have made peace with the realities of power and take them into account are hilariously OP'd
That man's name? Chairman Mao.
@Alephwyr One of the more terrifying AI scenarios is that humans turn out to be basically specialized with heavy inductive biases while artificial neural networks are much more general intelligence, which is why they need so many more resources to train.
@apex_simmaps "You need to be huge" tweet but it's about globalization and juicing stonk numbers.
@AFamilyofducks1 @BimboPolitic youtube.com/watch?v=Si7dl6…
@Alephwyr The application to people who are half-correct about something should be obvious:
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@Alephwyr I honestly think it's more like people who are enmeshed in certain subcultures have weirdly domain specific cognition about stuff. Like they can apply the correct methods of thinking to anything so long as it doesn't conflict with the premises of their subculture membership.
@Alephwyr Inference for thee but not for me.
@dystopiabreaker @tszzl x.com/WillManidis/st…
@owenbroadcast I think one 'good faith' mechanism by which this can happen is that someone is writing on a deadline and the thing they're saying is based on their gestalt impression/expert knowledge of a subject but they don't have a specific source at hand so they cite something tangential.
t.co/wqCCUE5wRl https://t.co/62uUBgTiIz
@TetraspaceWest But Cartwright told me that universal laws don't exist! You're telling me metaphysics are like, *real*? That's just your opinion sister!
@TetraspaceWest I can compress the result of an unbiased coinflip into less than one bit any time I want and you can't stop me uwu
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