Sailor Sega Saturn @ sailor_sega_saturn @awful.systems

I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the bles

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You might notice that I really, really don't like Yudkowsky and the Rationalists. Honestly, the biggest reason? It's because they almost lured me into their nonsense. The only reason I figured out how awful they were and avoided being sucked in? It's because I read one of Yudkowsky's posts claiming his rational methods were superior to the scientific method, which set off a lot of alarm bells in my head, and sent me down a serious research rabbit hole. I do not take kindly to people making a sucker out of me.

Yeah I felt a certain allure back when I was tragically afflicted with teenager brain and thought the idea of thinking logically was neato. At the time Mr. Yudkowsky was on the Overcoming Bias blog.

Eventually I noticed they were horribly racist, sexist, unscientific, and not-as-logically-thinking-as-advertised because of their weird evo-psych and gender beliefs and drifted away to the feminism blog-o-sphere instead (where I caused enough minor drama for a TERF to angrily blog about me haha, the internet was so much fun back then).

I had opioids (Norco) in the hospital like 3 or so times when I had pancreatitis, and they gave me some to take home just in case. I didn't actually need any at home so left that bottle closed but it took a surprising amount of self control; just because of how good it felt in the hospital.

The stuff is potent and best not messed around with.

Ah but the machine gods could be tinkering with your neural wiring to make you think you're rolling a die when in reality the universe is nothing but the color pink. That's right, reality is nothing but a shade of Fuchsia and dice don't actually exist. You should take this possibility into account when adjusting your priors for some reason.

Epistemic Status: Barbie.

Epistemic Status: Single/Cali girl ;)

Maybe the mainstream is correct about everything. “Sneer club” seems to be mostly mainstream opinions.

Lurk moar.

For example, the mainstream opinion on covid was usually lagging several weeks behind Zvi’s posts on lesswrong.

Heaven forbid the mainstream take a few weeks to figure shit out when presented with new information instead of violently changing gears every time a new story or rumor gets published.

For anyone curious: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/rencyawwfr4rfwt5C

My favorite quotes from within:

Going on walks considered fine for some reason, very strange.

My current best thought for how to do experiments quickly is medical cruise ships in international waters. [...] Medical cruise ships are already an established way to do things without running into regulatory problems.

We are willing to do things that people find instinctively repugnant, provided they save lives while at least not hurting the economy. How could we accomplish this?

"The Map is Not the Territory" (I shall henceforth refer to this as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles") is especially rich given how Yudkowski and other lesswrong types tend to be massive metaphor fetishists.

None of the central people concerned with AI risk, associated with LW or otherwise, has ever said that we should expect to see AI having negative effects autonomously before it all goes to hell.

Well isn't that convenient? None of today's AIs problems actually matter (don't give other people money!). Or at least not nearly as much as AI going to biblical levels of apocalypse without warning unless we deep thinkers think deep thoughts and save us all preemptively (give us money!)

A lot of rationalism is just an intense fear of death. Simulation hypothesis? Means that maybe you can live forever if you're lucky. Superintelligence? Means that your robot god might grant you immortality someday. Cryogenics? Means that there's some microscopic chance that even if you pass away you could be revived in the future at some point. Long terminism? Nothing besides maybe someday possibly making me immortal could possibly matter.

I mean don't get me wrong I'd give a lot for immortality, but I try to uhh... stay grounded in reality.

Also it was a close race, but the award for "most WTF comment" is a tie between:

A policeman stops a black man, who complains about racial profiling, and then the policeman finds evidence of a crime, and says something like "police go where the crime is"?

and

please understand that the reason my mental netcode detected your behavior as agentic still seems to have been justified at the time.

Let us list some of the specific concrete examples of wokeism in this blog post and comments. For fun.

1. a gay kiss in the background of a scene in Star Wars
2. The movie Knives Out
3. What James Damore got fired from Google for pushing back against (if you don't remember this; he has pushing back against the idea that women make for just as good programmers as men do)
4. Suing twitter for firing a significantly higher percentage of women than men during layoffs
5. The episode The Star Spangled Man from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier where Sam Wilson gets profiled by police.
6. Talking about ones membership of a protected group all the time
7. Leaving / Disinvesting from Twitter after Elon Musk purchased it.
8. Disney releasing a new Black Princess
9. Corporate training that trains people to discriminate against majorities instead of minorities

OK that's probably enough...

Why did the new word I learned today have to be Tradhumanism of all things? :( I'm holding out for a word about ducklings tomorrow.