Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Previously, on Awful, a leaderless cult had freshly formed. The accepted name for the cult is now āSpiralismā; my suggestion of āCyclone Emoji Cultā did not win. This weekās Behind the Bastards is about Spiralism. Or, rather, Part 2 will be about Spiralism; Part 1 is merely the historical background. There is indeed a link to folks who were talking to bots in the 1980s. The highlight might be listening to Robert try to give an informal and light-hearted summary of Turing tests and Markov chains. ššššš
From your prev post:
The noosphere, the old cosmists strike again. This sort of stuff and the global consciousness projects (who used random number generators iirc) etc are def part of the training data.
If nothing else they got the SCP wiki in there which gets into some of the noosphere stuff in the more esoteric and metatextual entries.
So we are inferring that in the vector space of all possible sentences, QNTM is sitting at one of the attractors?
QNTM must get some exciting email.
I like Evansā take that since thereās bound to be oodles of cult related literature and interactions and also tons of self help and guru stuff in the training datasets, it stands to reason that if you interact with a chatbot in a way that indicates vulnerability to these things thereās a considerable chance that it will decide the expected response is to prey on you.
Also Scott Aaronson jump scare near the beginning, apparently he was blurbed for something.
a Stand Alone Complex, but with slop
Well, we do have computer science, so necessarily we must have computer religion/superstition
Checks out. Political science, biological science, physicsā¦ we got them all. Might have to go to ancient egypt to get hydrology religion though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory