More pessimistically i'd call it the "hype train", a bubble promises an eventual pop.
What usually happens is people on masse moving the newer and shinier model, apparently afflicted with amnesia about their previous buzz words.
I'd say it's the cancerous influence of VC funding, the grift gets the dough.
10^80 minds is not the only possible outcome of bullshit sci-fi. Why not consider the obvious and inevitable (my crap-cassandra-muse is pre-comitted) future of humanity melding into the Single Mind Collective ?
Why should we 8 billion souls make sacrifices to improve the life of a single one?
(Bad UI made me accidentally delete my other comment instead of editing it)
10^80 minds is not the only possible outcome of bullshit sci-fi. Why not consider the obvious and inevitable (my crap-cassandra-muse is pre-comitted) future of humanity melding into the Single Mind Collective ?
Why should we 8 billion souls make sacrifices to improve the life of a single one?
It’s not bayesian reasoning without actual math, and many beliefs are not so easily quantified under any statistical framework.
All it really offers is unwarranted confidence in one’s own rationality, often used in these circles to cloak nauseating positions.
Making ideas « pay rent », In these circles is also used for black-pilling people into rejecting common sense and humanity. It’s good to be skeptical of new ideas or new claims, it’s even good to analyze and synthesize your own beliefs, it’s a bit dangerous to say that every belief is negotiable, and to give the tools to others the tools to mould them (here be cult dragons).
Despite it’s flaws, it is a good opening to the Declaration of Independence of the US (not American myself):
« we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are […] equal […] with certain unalienable rights »
You can’t get morals from stats, and some core ideals ought to live in your mind rent-free.
YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERJOCKS CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BULLY YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE AND POPULARITY TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BULLYING.
I would also tell them that the rationality cargo culting, is the only way to portray understanding things,
fake it till you make it, you can solve this insecurity that I have about myself in you!
Other people are untinking NPCs, they don't see the cracks in the matrix (and PC hellscape) like I do.
Through the magic of self-funded blockchain crowd combobulator (famously very low on greenhouse emissions) yet vitally out-funded through the commitment of big oil money (also famously very low on greenhouse emissions), any regulation or actual government action to address climate change is unneeded!
Truly a pair, paragons of sustainable web3/libertarian virtue!
I think part of it is cargo-culting and/or esthetics, and the seduction is a bit more subtle, their betting markets formalizes their belief:
That if people believe something (they agree with, they aren't consistent with it), that thing is more likely.
Some might even have an actually "occult" interpretation and see it as a form of actual divination. Yud certainly appears to me to have that tendency.
NB: Supprimer l'accord par contre oui, avec l'auxiliaire avoir par example, surtout que dans 95% des cas la différence n'est pas ou peu audible à l'oral. Serait-il si choquant d'écrire:
« Une bel actrice »
« Une amie gentil »
« La femme que j'ai aimé » (2000 points pour celle-ci, l'accord avec avoir ne sert presque à rien)
Après l'anglais à des soucis que l'on a pas en français:
Les déterminants possessifs, sont marqués avec le genre de la personne plutôt que celui (grammatical) de l'objet: "His comment" ou "Her comment" = "Son commentaire" (Bon c'est vrai, même les transphobes utiliseraient "their" lorsque le genre est ambigu).
Là ou en France il y a une tendance à féminiser les noms de métiers ou occupation, il y a en anglais une tendance à les masculiniser/neutraliser. Example l'usage de "She is an actor" devient plus fréquent (voir ici).
Utiliser l'un ou l'autre est un compromis à faire sur comment exactement traiter les gens de façon équitable, faut-il effacer les différence, donner un même titre "plus prestigieux" à l'autre genre, ou reconnaître un place a part entière aux deux genres ? Surtout quand on sait qu'une grosse part du bousin que l'on a en français c'est en grande partie dû à un effort delibéré de masculinisation (explicitement anti-femme) au 17ème siècle.
C'est pas si évident que ça. Abolir le genre pourquoi pas, mais ça ne doit pas s'accompagner par une marginalisation des femmes.
Ça peut aussi être une subtile tentative de leurrer certains émigrés, les ramener sur reddit avec des promesses de troll, et raviver ce qu'ils pensent être une véritable addiction.
Simultanously complaining about the elite, but then saying it's only because it's been watered down by the plebs.
Vile understanding of "poetry" as status marker.
Not going back further in time than 19th century, and extremely suspiciously marking the "height" of peotry between 1920a to mid-1960s, not at all coinciding with the civil rights act.
Thank you for reminding me how vile Moldbug is ? ^^
Not sure about the people who “are or think they are intelligent” being more susceptible to the con.
It feels like something one wishes to be true for karmic/poetic reasons rather than something that actually IS true.
I think good marks for the LLM con are more generally doubtful of the value of human intelligence/labour/education and/or tech positivist rather than true believers in their own intelligence.
The irony of crediting Moldbug with a potent explanation for bad poetry is rather amusing.
It's almost a shame that Scott here cops out with a "The margins are too small for my proof", although maybe it is secret mercy.
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More pessimistically i'd call it the "hype train", a bubble promises an eventual pop. What usually happens is people on masse moving the newer and shinier model, apparently afflicted with amnesia about their previous buzz words.
I'd say it's the cancerous influence of VC funding, the grift gets the dough.