Lubos Motl

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

It's become a prawnblem.

What about the Grothendieck Prime?

so the AI is just your fears about capitalism?

always has been.

QUIZ

You administer IQ tests to 10K individuals, then give them a "performance test" for anything, any task.

2000 of them are dead. Dead people score 0 on IQ and 0 on performance. The rest have the IQ uncorrelated to the performance.

What is the spurious correlation IQ/performance?

SOLUTION

37.5%

EUGENICISTS DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC

I had that idea the second I learned that diamonds and coal are made of the same atoms, ngl.

OpenAI loses money on all of its products individually

Maybe they can make up for it in volume.

Well aykshuyally Yarvin is a reactionary, not a fascist. And also he doesn't like Hitler, because he was a dumdum: https://types.pl/@graydon/109938235313739307

plagiarism machines

The AI-generated parts of these kind of "covers" generally have exactly two easily identifiable parts - the original singer's melody and intonation, combined with the voice of an actor playing the cartoon character. While it's done without the consent of either, I still think it falls under mashup/parody, with the AI magic making the whole thing sound better for relatively less effort. It's not like using a comittee of uncredited artist to make something entirely new, and then pass it as one's own.

I always feel a culture shock after seeing someone claim "we use $AI in production at $COMPANY", after mostly seeing these used for silly shit like Neco Arc covering System of a Down.

I shitpost, therefore I am.

Actually I might have done goofed with that one; now that I think of it, if you assume some jackoff amount of computing power then a human brain (assuming nothing uncomputable happens there, so sad Penrose noises) could be simulated from first principles for a limited amount of time, no actual proof of possible future outcomes needed. This still leaves the problem of how exactly do you get all the data for that (and I think any uncertainity would require an exponential increase in paths you have to simulate), especially without killing the human in question.

On a similar note, Yud's decision theory that hinges on an AI (presumably a Turing Machine) predicting what a human (Turing-Complete at the least) does with 100% accuracy.

So men have become useless.

g/acc go brrrrrrrrrr

"Youngsters are having too much sex to appreciate softcore porn in mainstream movies" sure is a take.

Greg Egan was lampooning them in Zendegi and Schild’s Ladder for what is worth, and also Crystal Nights contains the following banger:

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God. Perhaps your motto should be ‘Treat every chatterbot kindly, it might turn out to be the deity’s uncle.'

Interestingly, the posthuman worlds in some of Egan's books do resemble longtermist wet dreams somewhat, the crucial difference being the lack of superintelligence.

In all seriousness, I've heard this idea before in SF-adjacent circles; the point is that a gas mixture that resembles Earth's atmosphere is buoyant on Venus at an altitude where the pressure is around 1 Earth's atmosphere.

Now, actually living there, suspended over some hot hellscape in a machine built by these guys of all options... lol. Lmao, even.

Okay, this is HN so not assuming malice might be the wrong idea, but I legit thought is sounds like "the sad thing is that he almost got away, and it would be better if he had no chance in the first place", not "the sad thing is that he got away".

For bonus sneer, check out their profile.

wtf