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Dare I say... womp womp?

The thermodynamic god is a kind of in-joke for e/acc; a reference to the laws of physics

But apparently asking a physicist whether these people are all full of shit is too much.

So, if anyone is keeping score, the promise of Artificial Intelligence has descended from "the computers on Star Trek" to "spicy ticket-booking".

Transcript: Tweet from "Sell When Over | 9000.sei" at 10:17 PM on 7 April 2024.

Just realized I got $500k drained from multiple wallet apps 46 hours ago

Think I got extension hacked, with two suspicious extensions that appeared on my chrome browser

does not feel good fam

still investigating

"It's garbage that generates giant rat dicks now, but I can't wait to hand my life over to it tomorrow!"

You are a statistical inevitability.

Aw shucks, I bet you say that to all the girls

Suddenly everything in my life looks less pathetic by comparison.

The best way I can relate current LLM’s is the early days of the microprocessor.

Early microprocessors could do arithmetic correctly.

something something Confessions of a VC-Funded Opium Eater

This one?

A related take from PZ Myers:

You can just do this really simple exercise: Go to any standard evolutionary biology textbook and ask, is Gould buried? Is he gone? Has he been discarded? Tossed into the dustbin of hist—no, he hasn't.

Was that in this episode?

Langan himself has showed up graced the comment section with his benevolent presence!

The CTMU is not conjectural, but a lock. So as much as I'd like to humbly efface myself in an outpouring of false modesty, I'll merely point out that arguing with the CTMU amounts to undermining one's own argumentation, whatever it may be. People have been trying to get over on the CTMU for the last 35 or so years, and not one has ever gotten to first base. This was not an accident. If you think you see a mistake or critical inadequacy, the mistake and the inadequacy are almost certainly yours.

"Klingon Speakers Now Outnumber Navajo Speakers" (The Onion, 1999)

I imagine it was an article about how "Sex workers are skeptical that crypto can answer all their financial problems".

Don't forget how Arthur Chu wrote a response grounded in empathy, and Aaronson decided that Chu wants him dead. Really.

So, a lesswrong suggests gathering "The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject," where "tacit knowledge" is defined as "knowledge that can't properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction". The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under "Finance" are Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill of GameStop fame... and Martin Shkreli.

The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it can't be explained in written words.

The discussion in the comments has continued in a low-key way. Now they're making excuses for why the nutbar is incomprehensible:

To understand why Chris thinks this way, it's important to remember that he had never been acculturated into the norms of the modern intellectual elite...

Langan has been "working" on the CTMU since the 1990s. People have been born since then and have had time to learn how to talk like academics.

Team members can ask the app questions like “How should I set this oven temperature?” rather than turning to training materials or tapping through an app interface.

Yep, that's a health code violation in the making.

The failure mode of clever continues to be asshole.