I somehow missed how American leftists were instrumental in urging the Iranian people to oust the Shah. Leftists like… Jimmy Carter[1]

edit this is typical US-centrism, other people don’t have any agency, it’s all about America

[1] I know, I know, about as left-wing as Genghis Khan

whoever loses, we win

if you outsource your analysis of US politics to slop machines, this is the kind of inane drivel you get

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cDwTZKg2pouK7RvBL/draft-moskovitz-the-best-last-hope-for-constructive-ai-1

(n.b. the Moskovitz referred to is not the very weird, very online Zvi, but some dipshit VC)

yeah it’s bad

otoh awareness I think is spreading

swedish public broadcasting has regular “spot the fake” pieces on their website

I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to “mature” is a good idea before amplifying.

thought it was satire, genuinely surprised it’s an official Urbit-sponsored project

also very much goes against the grain of elevating the mind over the body which is the vibe I get from urbit and environs

A lobster invokes classic argument from authority

First Terrence Tao and now Donald Knuth.

If you’re still on the fence about AI, you have to take it seriously now.

yeah b/c I’m a professional computer scientist …

A real evil robot god would keep a sample of humanity alive forever in order to torture them as reprisal for them being really really mean to it back in the day.

Obviously I don’t want the human race to go extinct, but if there was a choice of inevitable outcomes where we do, building an inimmical superintelligence at least implies agency, not carelessness.

Anyway Big Yud’s fantasy of a precisely timed diamondoid-bacteria delivered killshot to every human being at the same time might sound terrible, but from a sensory perspective of the victims, it’s basically suffering-free. You go about your day, BAM nothingness. Maybe there’s a difference in timing so you see your partner keel over a split second before you die - again, you might not even realize what is happening.

I am not sure from where this idea of a global instantaneous simultanous genocide comes from, maybe a tit-for-tat escalation to counter every argument against shutting down the robot god, but from a storytelling perspective it’s pretty useless. There’s no drama where the survivors lament their loss or brood over what might have been. It’s just a plug being pulled on the simulation.

(weirdly it’s also the logical outcome of asking a computer to “end human suffering”, a bit like the Robobrain logic in Fallout 4’s Automatron expansion, but I doubt it’s meant that way)

it’s amusing to me that these nerds thought they could in any way affect policy even with a sane administration, not to mention this bugshit crazy one

like I’ve said before, I’d be perversely happy if we managed to off ourselves by building the robot god. beats drowning in our own filth or blowing ourselves up

this is confusing, how many licenses that are “NonCommercial” are mainstream Free/Open source? From what I’ve seen they’re deffo a minority anyway.

Thought inspired by some git on the red site, basically their premise was that birthrates are declining because we no longer have a society with a 2-parent nuclear family with one “breadwinner”.

Here’s my counterproposal to the implied idea we need to implement The Handmaid’s Tale:

Ban contraception and abortion but if you get pregnant, there is no stigma to giving birth out of wedlock. The delivery is safe and paid for, and should you wish, the child will be reared in state-funded orphanages. These institutions will be receive more than adequate funding. Their charges will be given preferred entry to the best schools and universities, as well as preferential treatment when it comes to future employment. It will be illegal to discriminate against anyone so raised.

Surely this will raise the birthrate, right?

How often is section 28g of the civil code of Switzerland invoked?

It’s still a SLAPP suit. Palantir has massively more PR resources, and if they wished to actually respond to the content of the Republik piece, they could do so.

What they are doing is trying to send a message to future reporters - report negatively on us, and we will make it very very expensive for you to respond to legal challenges.

OTOH is a huge self-own. Reporters live to get attacked by giant faceless corporations. No-one outside a small section of the Swiss reading public would have even heard of this story before Palantir decided to go nuclear.

Just a thought…

Imagine if China and North Korea bombed the White House, killed the president and most of the cabinet, and shot missiles at primary schools. Would you go out on the street and demonstrate in favor of the Chinese Communist Party and Kim Jong-Un, and expect to be heard and taken seriously?

Somehow brown people in other lands are supposed to be avid readers of wingnut welfare papers and have their worldview 100% aligned with Lindsey Graham and Bibi Netanyahu…

fuck yeah! congrats!

Marcus is just critihyping like mad. He actually believes LLMs in DoD will lead to Skynet, instead of a bunch of probably avoidable targetting mistakes

That’s such a weird comment… like “worried about hurricanes” - the first idea is to pour literal oil on the water??? in what world does that scale??? then it concludes with “maybe don’t build fragile buildings in hurricane areas” - lead with that you pillock

I feel I’m stepping into some long-forgotten debate on LW on alignment or something because there’s so much that doesn’t make sense in context

couldn’t happen to nicer guys

edit I don’t really care one way or another, this current administration is off the rails, but it will be amusing seeing the Rat crowd run around in a panic

it’s funny b/c management consultants live for applying the same cookie-cutter methods for different businesses - in a way they’re the OG LLMs

but the real business is sales - you need to get your expensive consultants embedded into an org so they can start invoicing. And for sales focussing on “AI” is perfect, b/c the companies big enough to be able to pay are also the ones run by the same sort of MBAs who are pushing “AI” everywhere else

ah, “acculturation” on lobste.rs where a 2-month old account feels free to mouth off on a mod for not doing their job (possibly because the mod uses a feminine-coded handle?) and praise HN as an alternative

https://lobste.rs/c/ltffae

I’ve noticed that the reference to “garden party” is the tone-policing term of choice for lobsters fash to shut down uncomfortable discussions

“enjoy” this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place

https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so