blakestacey @ blakestacey @awful.systems

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Apparently the "startup ecosystem" matters more than the ecosystem of, you know, actual living things.

These people are just amazingly fucking evil.

There is an entire second Earth right here on Earth.

"... Mister Bond."

I have a whole series of rants about that cat, starting with how it doesn't illuminate anything about quantum theory specifically — as opposed to probabilistic or stochastic theories in general — and culminating in "Hey, maybe we should stop naming things after pedo creeps."

According to one story at least, Wigner eventually concluded that if you take some ideas that physicists widely hold about quantum mechanics as postulates and follow them through to their logical conclusion, then you must conclude that there is a special role for conscious observers. But he took that as a reason to question those assumptions.

(That story comes from Leslie Ballentine reporting a conversation with Wigner in the course of promoting an ensemble interpretation of QM.)

There are some interesting ideas in that general direction (wrapping Bell inequalities within different new types of thought experiment, etc.), but some of the people involved have done rather a lot of overselling, and now bringing in talk of "AI" just obscures the whole situation. Which was already obscure enough.

Fetish content for the world's most divorced man.

Colonizer Clippy

"The time has come to stand up for Little Tech" —venture capital firm with $42 billion in assets under management

I had noticed the user ID and figured that they were sequentially-assigned integers, but I hadn't bothered to check what the numbers had gotten up to. I'm seeing a 930, an 1175, a 2327.... So, yeah.

Babel-17 came out in 1966, and its vision of the future was that a good ship's captain knows how to complete a poly triad and you can't leave Earth without a full crew including three ghosts and a furry.

The document describes a project that uses Strawberry models with the aim of enabling the company’s AI to not just generate answers to queries but to plan ahead enough to navigate the internet autonomously

Navigate the Internet that their software has already filled with shit. And the point of that would be...?

My condolences.

The Wikipedia editors who hang out here might thank you for calling to their attention pages that clearly need to be fixed, since they cite non-peer-reviewed preprints on the arXiv, the shit journal Entropy, and the fucking LessWrong blog.

Me, I'm going to block you anyway. Bye!

The same author has also written about Max Tegmark.

I had some good physics conversations on g+. Slivers of memory from happier times....

(looks up meaning of WP:AGF)

... Yeah, that site is probably not the right hobby for me.

(looks up the LessWrong discussion page)

My God, it's full of smeg

They want sneers about Yud's lack of qualifications? Fine:

Noncy prig who never went to high school founded a cult for people who can't leave it behind! How's about that, eh?

Here's a link that bypasses the URL shortener.

Also: ew.

Perilous Waif follows the story of its narrator Alice Long, a cybernetically enhanced orphan with a variety of superhuman powers in the 25th century. One of these enhancements causes Alice’s body to grow very fast, giving her the body of a thirteen year old at just age six.

nopetopus

It occurs to me that, intentionally or not, he's probably steering TESCREAL types to Wikipedia itself as well. I wouldn't be surprised if accounts were coming out of the woodwork to post multi-kiloword screeds about Wikipedia being soooo unfairrrr....

Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds! They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life! Ready to out-sit eternity. They're indomitable.

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

There’s no way someone earnestly spent their time writing over half a million words on a self-insert Harry Potter fanfic as some form of mental masturbation… right?