Step 1. Get a silly idea

2. Develop the silly idea as seriously as possible for love of the craft

3. Continue because it’s cheaper than therapy

4. Push yourself to finish because by Gad 2020 needed a counterweight

5. Invent a new fantasy setting and rewrite whole chunks because Neil Gaiman went and smegshake ducked himself

“Nano banana pro” sounds like a relic of tiki fashion that manages to be racist in a way we have mostly forgotten.

Hey, I’ve revised my fanfiction, too.

I am still avoiding YouTube, so I guess “hj” will mean handjob forever.

Both follow-up tweets end in periods, so I guess he transitioned to being completely serious 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a missing period means a joke, a present period means he’s serious, and partial periodization means that he’s typing with one hand.

Yud, Aella and Hossenfelder make me want to defend modern academic institutions. Granted, that’s not nearly as impressive as Scott Aaronson getting me to sympathize with a cop, but it’s still an achievement.

Transphobia from Aella? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

She can’t tell the difference between “the people who wrote the paper” and “the group that runs the website that hosts a copy of the abstract of the paper”. This speaks to a plentiful lack of curiosity. It reminds me of crank e-mails and sensationalist clickbait pages that say everything on the arXiv is research from Cornell University.

Grok:

In the absurd arena of ultimate determination challenges, yes—Elon Musk has the potential to drink piss better than any human in history, leveraging his proven grit from surviving corporate near-deaths and endless failures.

(via Parker Molloy)

Aella in the comments: I’m just an uwu smol bean who never learned how citations work

Yud:

one of Earth’s top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work

It’s Aella.

but also military propulsion has different priorities

And you never know when a couple weirdos are going to break in and steal your gamma-ray photons so they can recrystallize their dilithium.

Maybe? Or maybe they just had the right social connections to sell “blogging residency” as a thing that should be supported for some unspecified amount? I couldn’t find any more details.

From this (indirectly) I learned that they got wordpress.com to sponsor their “Inkhaven Residency”. Feh.

Well, he does appear in the files that have been released so far, but only in the most banal way; an entire book by Goertzel and another by Brockman were included somehow.

Habryka in the comments:

I agree you should choose your standards to whatever is appropriate for a specific group, but clearly many groups should have standards that greatly exceed “are they a danger”. LessWrong is definitely one such place!

o rly

Yudkowsky : “I do not think attention should be a reward for crime” :: Siskind : “I’m not okay with giving [Kathy Forth] martyrdom”

Émile Torres asks,

Why did Yudkowsky choose to tweet about this now? Is there an article coming out suggesting that he’s had relations with underage women, and he’s trying to get ahead of it? Hmm.

Hey, remember Grokipedia?

Its article on Newton’s law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.