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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not spending the additional 34min apparently required to find out what in the world they think neural network training actually is that it could ever possibly involve strategy on the part of the network, but I'm willing to bet it's extremely dumb.

I'm almost certain I've seen EY catch shit on twitter (from actual ml researchers no less) for insinuating something very similar.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[Taking the derivative of a function] oh fuck the function is conscious and plotting against us.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

It's called a function plot for a reason!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

to be fair, assuming computers are like that because they hate all humans and want to fuck you up is basically true

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

I once tried to install a haskell package

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

that would explain npm.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

it has been 0 days since I last accused a web standard of being a basilisk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m almost certain I’ve seen EY catch shit on twitter (from actual ml researchers no less) for insinuating something very similar.

A sneer classic: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/131rfg0/ey_gets_sneered_on_by_one_of_the_writers_of_the/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago