Now that his new book is out, Big Yud is on the interview circuit. I hope everyone is prepared for a lot of annoying articles in the next few weeks.
Today he was on the Hard Fork podcast with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (didn’t listen to it yet). There’s also a milquetoast profile in the NYT written by Kevin Roose, where Roose admits his P(doom) is between 5 and 10 percent.
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I get that, but most Christians don’t make plans to freeze their bodies after they die.
With his all-consuming fear of death, Thiel is about as far from being a Christian as one can get. All his antichrist talk is a nakedly transparent attempt to gas up the rubes so they remain on the side of the billionaires even after Trump gives up the ghost. He doesn’t believe a single thing he’s saying.
A nice thread linked in the comments on Peter Woit’s blog: https://xcancel.com/VikingFBR/status/1962222479008841730
I know it’s been said thousands of times before, but as a software developer I’ve never felt a greater sense of job security than I do right now. The amount of work it’s going to take to clean up all this slop is going to be monumental. Unfortunately, that kind of work is also soul-deadening.
Last year McDonald’s withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.
Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it’s going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.
It’s bizarre and pathetic how Scott disabled comments on his blog post but is now using Peter Woit’s blog to carry on a debate with all the people horrified by his views.
Never heard of Ishida, but he sounds like he’s yet another one of those people for whom politics and belief are just “vibes”. There’s no principle, no rational basis, just vibes. I feel like more and more of the world is becoming this way. Or perhaps it always was this way, but the Internet has just made it more evident.
Given how often it shows up in his writings, this incel victim narrative is a linchpin to his personality. He even trots it out in the middle of this genocidal screed – in what on first glance seems to be an irrelevant detour. But it’s really not irrelevant. His self-inflicted psychic damage is painfully real and manifests itself in all sorts of toxic and sociopathic ways, including abject dehumanization of an entire population.
lol
It immediately made me wonder about his background. He’s quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I’d say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.
In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.
Clown world.
How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They’ll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.
You don’t hear too many leftists saying things like this:
I think that the Democratic Party has two factions; they disagree on a ton of important stuff. I think that the neoliberals are right on nearly all of those disagreements, and the progressives are wrong on nearly all of the disagreements.
Is it a loop if it only executes once?
How much energy was used to produce that video?
Ozy Brennan tries to explain why “rationalism” spawns so many cults.
One of the reasons they give is “a dangerous sense of grandiosity”.
the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.
Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.
I’m aware of the cloudflare issue, and I don’t use them. So I’m pretty sure it’s not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)
Yud: “That’s not going to asymptote to a great final answer if you just run them for longer.”
Asymptote is a noun, you git. I know in the grand scheme of things this is a trivial thing to be annoyed by, but what is it it with Yud’s weird tendency to verbify nouns? Most rationalists seem to emulate him on this. It’s like a cult signifier.