Apparently now "a death is being investigated", which is a form of passive voice I have not yet encountered.
Also, "shelter in place" is one of those examples of American English that I really don't get. I suppose it's something from school shootings? Or hurricanes?
D'oh you're right. I will do better in the future.
TIL Burning Man has a fucking airport. USA, man.
There's a lot of interesting reading on that site, thanks for linking.
tbh I read the statement about epistemic status as ironic. I was disabused of this notion rapidly.
A bad habit rationalism teaches is to treat a stock verbiage of polite and open discussion as on the one hand (a) integral to productive conversation, and (b) automatically generative of productive conversation. But people aren’t like that, because people are in general really smart listeners (and readers) when it comes to figuring out what is stock verbiage and what is meant in earnest.
Thanks for articulating this.
Future humanity, foiled by Big Wik.
Like the old saw goes, I traded health and happiness for the ability to detect an alt-right chud after 2 sentences.
Gotta say it took longer than usual for OP to arrive at the real goal: sexbots.
Or an analogy. I think gpt-4 is like the data from the Chicago pile. That data was enough to convince the domain experts then a nuke was going to work to the point they didn’t test Fat Man, you believe not.
Are you mixing up Fat Man and Little Boy? Because Fat Man was an implosion-type bomb, just like the Trinity device. Little Boy was a gun-type. From vague memories of Rhode's book, they wanted implosion types to maximize Pu weight to kiloton ratio, but it was much less straightforward than a gun-type bomb.
ChatGPT output is almost the definition of post-modernism - all is text, there's no underlying meaning.
Oh yeah, I fucking wrote a snarky blog post about this a few days ago
The SFnal idea of the Singularity is when technological progress goes faster and faster until it disappears up the hockey stick curve of pure unknoweabilty. What’s happening now in actuality is that hype cycles are crashing faster and faster. Blockchain! Self driving! LLM!
Any takeoffs are going to run into the iron cloud cover of climate change anyway.
Thanks for the link.
JFC, considering the amount of hate Penny and Marcotte have to contend with daily makes Scott having one unpleasant run-in with police then whining about it even more pathetic.
He does seem like a sensitive type, and managed to get on the wrong side of some internet drama years ago (I think he derailed a discussion about sexual harassment with whining about how women didn't want to sleep with him?) and he doesn't seem to be thick-skinned enough to just ignore the haters.
Post is from 2018...
Here's the HN discussion (he's a bit of a hero there)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717816
Lots of people lawyering that taking from a tip jar isn't stealing as the money technically does not belong to anyone lol.
it’s only a matter of time until big, scary armed guys come for me, as they came for so many other nerdy misfits.
Citation most definitely needed.
SneerClub posters
Senpai has noticed us!!!!
So LW is just a fanfic appreciation forum, got it.
That thread is gold. Specially love this one where heroin is dismissed because it's not utilitarian enough
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34649954