V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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HP fanfic but house points are crypto and the chocolate frog cards are NFTs tracked on a magical blockchain

I had a religious youth and believed in an immortal soul. Even when I came out of that, I quickly believed in the potential of radical transhuman life extension.

My dude you're so, so, sooo close to realising it, you should spontaneously quantum-tunnel into self-awareness any second now

The storm rages within

Yet I hold F to pay respects

Apparently including a camera-esque filename in prompts for the latest mid journey release can make it more photorealistic.

This entire enterprise is just shamanry, we are like two steps away from "throwing a goat into a volcano makes your next prompt more realistic"

I'll give this author +10 bayes points for noticing Trump does unpredictable batshit stuff

+10 bayes points

Has someone on LW already proposed a BayesCoin or have I just figured out how to steal lunch money from all rationalists at once

Thanks Scott, never change.

Not to worry, he never will!

“Do not use for anything.”

That's really harsh since I have a few bad books that are at least useful as monitor stands

I agree with him insofar as Trump and his lackeys definitely think and act as if it was the "autocratic branch" and both the legislature and judiciary don't seem to be interested in disabusing them of that notion

TW: contains real chuds

read the study yourself

• ask the commenter if it's a study or a self-interested blog post
• they don't understand
• pull out illustrated diagram explaining that something hosted exclusively on the website of the for-profit business all authors are affiliated with is not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a real venue
• they laugh and say "it's a good study sir"
• click the link
• it's a blog post

This is actually an accurate representation of most "gifted olympiad laureate attempting to solve a freshman CS problem on the blackboard" students I've went to uni with.

Jumps to the front after 5 seconds from the task being assigned, bluffs that the problem is trivial, tries to salvage their reasoning for 5 minutes when questioned by the tutor, turns out the theorem they said was trivial is actually false, sits down having wasted 10 minutes of everyone's time.

OpenBrain "responsibly" elects not to release its model publicly to avoid it being called "underwhelming" and, to use a technical term, "gobshite".

It's eugenics but as a religious cult for reactionaries

Yud is that creepy nerd from your middle school who wrote disturbing fan fiction, but it wasn't just a phase and now he has the aforementioned cult

Misogyny is the free square, easy to forget

There's a fucking for profit that does this and it's used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling

While all the comments are correct, i.e. what the fuck is wrong with you, this is also wrong since it immediately leaves the duck unsupervised after the first trip. So really not sure what you're trying to prove here.

In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I'd get to have a zoom function in my eye

But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.

And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it's just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They're proud it's eugenics.

Unlike in the paragraph above, though, most LW posters held plenty of nuts in their hands before.

... I'll see myself out

Can post only if you look like this

Bwahahaha, as I said on bsky: let them do it, can't wait to use it as a cautionary tale of why full rewrites are a terrible idea during freshman programming lectures