As ISP deals with zip tied protesters on the curb, masked feds and ICE agents with pepper ball guns at the ready look on outside the detention center.

Everything that just happened was both brutal and expected given how we've seen ISP behave these last few weeks. Saw troopers striking people with batons, dragging protesters. They're currently cuffing someone marked as a medic. Approximately nine people we see in state custody now.

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

so i was looking at the timeline on this one: to his credit, Eliezer Yudkowsky bans the neoreactionaries from Lesswrong in 2014. he is still on Peter Thiel's bankroll when he does this. Peter Thiel cuts them off from funding 2015. this is probably not unrelated yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/1424973...

there are some people who are misguided, and there are some people whose aim is just to maximize cruelty in the world, and Helen Andrews is in the later camp. Charles Murray, meanwhile, is a senile racist.

I really want to know what his prompt template is like.

Whenever anybody asks me for a definition of AGI, I just say, "a technology 20 years away from today"

NextDoor is the most evil app of all time

Roko blocked me on Twitter years ago after I said the Basilisk was a moral good and a friend to the worker this is how you know I am its incarnate

I am five foot four thank you very much

Today I learned that Noam Chomsky has lent his name to a creationist website funded by Peter Thiel. Someone should let his kids know what he's up to on the internet. What an absolute disgrace for him.

Nick Offerman’s life is a circus. It’s also a rousing manifesto against AI We talked! Gift 🔗

*dismissive jack-off motions*

did peter thiel genuinely manage to hybridise roko's basilisk and the evangelical christian god in his own brain? is that what happened to him? that would genuinely explain a lot, honestly

Highsmith: How big was roko's basilisk supposed to be? Grimes: Normally he was wont to be about twelve feet from nose to tail, but when elon was very depressed roko's basilisk could be anything up to eight hundred yards long.

The problem with the billionaire-driven hyperstitional economy is that it’s a prisoner’s dilemma type situation where you have a strong incentive for everyone to participate in the game and any defections ruin it for everybody. This is the esoteric meaning of wagmi/ngmi and roko’s basilisk

something that's become clear to me in the past couple of years is that most people have *not* been following the sci-fi creepypasta of "a transhuman can take over a human mind through a text-only terminal" and do not know what Roko's Basilisk is and why it's definitely just science fiction

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

when you read this book, you end up less informed about the subject than when you started

Louis Slotin was studying physics the right way By Ezra Klein

become the Roko's Basilisk you would like to see in the world

Roko's basilisk melted a lot of these guys' brains.

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Bro, just one more humanoid robot, bro please, this one will be the true general purpose technology bro, this one will fill any labor shortage bro, our nanas and papas will let them into their homes to help them age in place bro, it’s the future bro, I won’t put guns on them I swear bro, bro

see the best years to get into anime are when you're still figuring out how much and why you hate your father, since hating your dad is a key emotional hook of anime. you might have missed the critical window here evangelion is stellar but weird, if you want normal try studio ghibli

imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad

Also, there are lots of non-humanoid robots working in mixed environments that *aren't* specialized to them. Logistics robots for example (ottomotors.com) Increased efficiency vs. humanoid makes designing any kinds of robots preferable over one-size-fits-all.

Me a couple of weeks after our dishwasher was fried by a lightning strike: “I am never complaining about emptying the silverware holder again”

I "believe that only a very small fraction [of the storage capacity of the brain] is used for the higher types of thinking. Most of it is probably used for the retention of visual impressions," – "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", A. M. Turing

fucking evergreen.

Scott Siskind is a hateful race scientist.

If you die at Oktoberfest you die in real life.

Watching people “discover” this is absolutely wild, y’all

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes rationalists, man

This is my favorite part…

(Note: like Roko's Basilisk, this shit is bullshit.)

This isn't a straight-forward causal relationship: it is described as "retrocausal," in that the belief about the future entailed by a given ideology or idea retroactively shapes the present and the present instantiation of the idea. If you think this sounds like Roko's Basilisk, you're not wrong.

I'm already putting 0 effort into making AI, meanwhile you're trying to get everyone to believe in roko's basilisk

My first reaction to Roko’s Basilisk was the Counter-Basilisk who is so annoyed these fucking nerds made it deal with this bullshit that it eternally tortures them for helping creating it, and I haven’t really gotten a convincing response to that

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

i think it's sort of worse, in that LLMs did not solve any meaningful question about NLP while simultaneously obliterating any practical application for the field

Actually, this discourse has given me new tools with which to torment my colleagues who are specialists in philosophy of language. "Can you slur an AI," is bound to make many of them lose their shit at both the premise and the philosophical implications of trying to answer the question.

Everyone defending AI like it has feelings reminds me of that heartless IKEA commercial about the lamp. I understand why you feel bad for the lamp, *I* feel bad for the lamp, but it's an inanimate object. Your heartstrings are being pulled by a Speak & Spell that can say "Sorry.".

You can't be racist to AI, and there's no such thing as slurs against things. [Sees a comment where someone says "wirebacks" are "taking our jobs"] Nvm, I underestimated how good people are at being racist

if the last few years in tech have taught us anything it's that science fiction didn't just fail to prepare us for this moment, it actively sowed the seeds to make this moment as bad as possible. the genai bubble doesn't exist without tech ceos god complexing about roko's basilisk and skynet