

The artillery branch of most militaries has long been a haven for the more brainy types. Napoleon was a gunner, for example.
The artillery branch of most militaries has long been a haven for the more brainy types. Napoleon was a gunner, for example.
Oh, but LW has the comeback for you in the very first paragraph
Outside of niche circles on this site and elsewhere, the publicās awareness about AI-related āx-riskā remains limited to Terminator-style dangers, which they brush off as silly sci-fi. In fact, most peopleās concerns are limited to things like deepfake-based impersonation, their personal data training AI, algorithmic bias, and job loss.
Silly people! Worrying about problems staring them in the face, instead of the future omnicidal AI that is definitely coming!
LessWronger discovers the great unwashed masses , who inconveniently still indirectly affect policy through outmoded concepts like āvotingā instead of writing blogs, might need some easily digested media pablum to be convinced that Big Bad AI is gonna kill them all.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4unfQYGQ7StDyXAfi/someone-should-fund-an-agi-blockbuster
Cites such cultural touchstones as āThe Day After Tomorrowā, āAn Inconvineent Truthā (truly a GenZ hit), and āSlaughterbotsā which Iāve never heard of.
Listen to the plot summary
OK so what should be shown in the film?
compute/reporting caps, robust pre-deployment testing mandates (THESE are all topics that should be covered in the film!)
Again, these are the core components of every blockbuster. I canāt wait to see āAvengers vs the AIā where Captain America discusses robust pre-deployment testing mandates with Tony Stark.
All the cited URLS in the footnotes end with āutm_source=chatgpt.comā. 'nuff said.
At this point in time, having a substack is in itself a red flag.
The targets are informed, via a grammatically invalid sentence.
Sam Kriss (author of the āLaurentius Clungā piece) has posted a critique. I donāt think itās good, but I do think itās representative of a view that I ever encounter in the wild but havenāt really seen written up.
FWIW the search term āLaurentius Clungā gets no hits on LW, so Iām to assume everyone there also is Extremely Online on Xitter and instantly knows the reference.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3GbM9hmyJqn4LNXrG/yams-s-shortform?commentId=MzkAjd8EWqosiePMf
This was a good read. I also read the post/story/essay that got the rats upset and itās good too.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is-not
Yudās sputtering reaction can be read here among the comments here
Remember FizzBuzz? That was originally a simple filter exercise some person recruiting programmers came up with to weed out everyone with multi-year CS degrees but zero actual programming experience.
The argument would be stronger (not strong, but stronger) if he could point to an existing numbering system that is little-endian and somehow show itās better
The guy who thinks itās important to communicate clearly (https://awful.systems/comment/7904956) wants to flip the number order around
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KXr8ys8PYppKXgGWj/english-writes-numbers-backwards
Iāll consider that when the Yanks abandon middle-endian date formatting.
Edit itās now tagged as āHumorā on LW. Cowards. Own your cranks.
So hereās a poster on LessWrong, ostensibly the space to discuss how to prevent people from dying of stuff like disease and starvation, ārunning the numbersā on a Lancet analysis of the USAID shutdown and, having not been able to replicate its claims of millions of dead thereof, basically concludes itās not so bad?
No mention of the performative cruelty of the shutdown, the paltry sums involved compared to other gov expenditures, nor the blow it deals to American soft power. But hey, building Patriot missiles and then not sending them to Ukraine is probably net positive for human suffering, just run the numbers the right way!
Edit ah itās the dude who tried to prove that most Catholic cardinals are gay because heredity, I think I highlighted that post previously here. Definitely a high-sneer vein to mine.
Enjoy this LW answer about āmyths that encapsulate eternal truthsā. No. 3 will surprise you!
No replies and somehow that screen name just screams ātrollā to me.
Not that I really care, git can go DIAF as far as Iām concerned.
janitorai - which seems to be a hosting site for creepy AI chats - is blocking all UK visitors due to the OSA
https://blog.janitorai.com/posts/3/
Iām torn here, the OSA seems to me to be massive overreach but perhaps shielding limeys from AI is wroth it
Guys, how about we made the coming computer god a fan of Robert Nozick, what could go wrong?
Vegemite?
Iāll get my coat.
Hereās an example of normal people using Bayes correctly (rationally assigning probabilities and acting on them) while rats Just Donāt Get Why Normies Donāt Freak Out:
For quite a while, Iāve been quite confused why (sweet nonexistent God, whyyyyy) so many people intuitively believe that any risk of a genocide of some ethnicity is unacceptable while being⦠at best lukewarm against the idea of humanity going extinct.
(Dude then goes on to try to game-theorize this, I didnāt bother to poke holes in it)
The thing is, genocides have happened, and people around the world are perfectly happy to advocate for it in diverse situations. Probability wise, the risk of genocide somewhere is very close to 1, while the risk of āomnicideā is much closer to zero. If you want to advocate for eliminating something, working to eliminating the risk of genocide is much more rational than working to eliminate the risk of everyone dying.
At least on commenter gets it:
Most people distinguish between intentional acts and shit that happens.
(source)
Edit never read the comments (again). The commenter referenced above obviously didnāt feel like a pithy one liner adhered to the LW ethos, and instead added an addendum wondering why people were more upset about police brutality killing people than traffic fatalities. Nice āsaveā, dipshit.
yeah but have you considered how much itās worth that gramma can vibecode a todo app in seconds now???
Havenāt really kept up with the pseudo-news of VC funded companies acquiring each other, but it seems Windsurf (previously been courted by OpenAI) is now gonna be purchased by the bros behind Devin.
I found out about that too when I arrived at Reddit and it was translated to Swedish automatically.
Hereās LWer ājohnswentworthā, who has more than 57k karma on the site and can be characterized as a big cheese:
āwhy do people keep saying we sound like fascists? I donāt get it!ā