or whatever it is, ideologically

“synthetic data” is just signal-shaped noise in strictest terms

linguistic descriptivism (left)

green and anti-techbroist: left

also you have spy satellite sized blindspot

left (antiwork)

corn grown by modern industrial farming? right wing (agrarian), corn grown by ancient methods? either indigenous rights or anprim, corn grown where’s not supposed to be? leftist (Khrushchev tendency)

Ban alcohol but legalize haoma

the piece was about ai dc buildout

there was a post shared out there recentlyish (blogpost? substack? can’t find it. enjoy vagueposting) that was about how ai companies have no clue what they’re doing, and compared them to alchemy in that they also had no idea what they were doing, and over time moved on to more realistic goals, but while they had funding for these unrealistic goals they invented distillation and crystallization and black powder and shit. and the same for ai would be buildout of infra that can be presumably used for something later (citation needed).

so comparison of this entire ea/lw/openai milieu to alchemists is unjust for alchemists. alchemy has that benefit on its side that it was developed before scientific method was a proper thing, modern chatbot peddlers can’t really claim that what they’re doing is protoscience. what is similar is that alchemy and failed ea scifi writers claim that magic tech will get you similar things. cure for all disease (nanobots), immortality (cryonics or mind uploading or nanobots), infinite wisdom (chatbots), transformation of any matter at will (nanobots again), mind control derived from supreme rationality (ok this one comes from magic), synthetic life (implied by ai bioweapons, but also agi itself). when chinese alchemists figured out that mercury pills kill people and don’t make them immortal, there was a shift to “inner alchemy” that is spiritual practices (mental tech). maybe eliezer &co are last alchemists (so far) and not first ai-safety-researchers

that’s in practical terms meaningless, but just looking at statistics of it iq on the order of 190 would mean 1 in billion (1E9) per ever reliable rationalwiki https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/High_IQ_society

i also heard about recent strike on Ufa refinery, anyone keeping count on % of refining disabled?

There is evidence to suggest that artificial intelligence is advancing exponentially

yawn

assuming that nuclear nonproliferation is gonna hold up indefinitely for any reason is some real fukuyama’s end of history shit

let alone “because it’s Rational™ thing to do”, it’s only in rational interest of already-nuclear states to keep things this way. couple of states that could make a good point for having nuclear arsenal and having capability to manufacture it are effectively dissuaded from this by american diplomacy (mostly nuclear umbrella for allies and sanctions or fucking with their facilities for enemies). with demented pedo in chief and his idiot underlings trying their hardest to undo this all, i really wouldn’t be surprised if, say, south korea decides to get nuclear

it’s a guess of what can be abstracted away and what has to remain. i’d just add that evolutionarily, peptide signalling is older than synapses so these, or something that works like these, probably can’t be just left out of the picture, and there’s a couple of processes that seem important that depend on them (you can live normal life while packed full of naloxone, which blocks activity of opioid peptides, but this probably won’t work with, say, orexin which is important for sleep/wake cycle)

huh i honestly had no idea, and i guessed he was very replaceable in rw propaganda machine. i heard somewhere that shapiro was also supposed to be there

at minimum this requires additionally keeping position of neurons, modelling concentration of any neurotransmitters and their diffusion (taking into account shape of cells around) and their degradation products, some of which are active on their own. whatever set of interactions might be between neurons, it’ll probably make it changing with time and probably not sparse (information exchange isn’t just packaged neatly within synapses)

i didn’t even thought he was relevant anymore since 2020, he was like 2017 era chud debatelord who relied entirely on gotchas. he did toe the party line tho, so maybe some divergent rightwinger didn’t like what he was doing for whatever reason. maybe it was situation like with trump shooter, probable republican that didn’t particularly like epstein link, or whatever else cause there might be involved

i don’t think it would be so simple and i don’t think you can abstract neurons so hard, there are extrasynaptic receptors that react to concentrations of neurotransmitters outside synapses, and there are some neurotransmitters that leak out of synapses. thousands of leaking synapses can contribute to activation of some random receptor, or more than one this way. some other receptors are extrasynaptic by default and don’t really have synapses, neuropeptides work like this but not only these. for gasotransmitters, effectively there’s no concept of synapse. i don’t think you can abstract all neurotransmitters to some one chemical messenger either, there are different ones with different half-lives, different diffusion rates, different metabolites some of which work in completely different ways. (steroids, neuropeptides, gasotransmitters, whatever lipids go into cannabinoid system, it’s not just monoamines/glutamate/GABA/acetylcholine).

some receptors take multiple inputs, there are NMDA receptors that really only fire when glutamate and glycine both bind to it, and only after AMPA receptor nearby opens up first. we already know these things are important in forming of memories so it’s probably a big deal. some of these receptors are ion channels, and some of these are important especially intracellular calcium

he also said that kids should watch public executions https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073 and was shot directly under giant banner that reads “PROVE ME WRONG”

technically it’s a school shooting so not sure why conservatives care at all about it. he died like he lived, moving goalposts

That Ciechanów drone wasn’t confirmed anywhere