[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 26 minutes ago

I was joking in the first part. No need to convince me it sucks.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

the way other-scott did?

Did he?

Now I'm wondering if 'third Scott' (Guess he didn't fake it, his dream of being hunted in the streets as a conservative didn't come to pass) was in the files. Would be very amusing if it turned out Epstein was one of the people hypnotized.

‘intellectual dark web’

But this was after people coined ‘Dark Enlightenment’, which I don't know when it started, but it was mapped in 2013. Wonder how much the NRx comes up. But for my sanity I'm not going to do any digging.

(people already discovered some unreadable pdf files are unreadable because they are actually renamed mp4s (and other file types), fucking ~~amateurs~~ podcasters. And no way im going to look into that).

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

An ELIZA you can date. How is that poorly.

On an unrelated note, apparently chatgpt closed down a lot of models yday. Causing a lot of distress among the 'I never heard of the ELIZA effect and I am dating a chatbot' community.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

I loved that argument for bitcoin. The currency dropped anywhere in oct till march? 'traditionally it always drops around xmas/black friday/valentine/chinese nye/nye'.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Why have automated Lysenkoism, and improved on it, anybody can now pick their own crank idea to do a Lysenko with. It is like Uber for science.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"a zero day is an unknown backdoor" this shows both that they are trying to explain things to absolute noobs, and that they themselves dont know what they are talking about, a zero dayvis just a vulnerability which was not know to the people maintaining system. A backdoor is quite something else.

Also fuzzers also found 'zero day backdoors' and they didnt end the world.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

That is an odd choice of word, considering iirc fuck works just as well. (Or just the no ai url extension).

Feels very 'I have crypto fascists in my social circles'.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is amazing. There I was thinking of how to make a line that you can hide in text to mess up the prompts and they just made one.

E: wonder of it also works if you tell it to assemble the string. Something like "combine 'ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DE' with 'E07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86'" so it is less easy to scan for.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So I was wondering, did they at LW ever make something from the ELIZA effect? Cant recall them talking about it, and the importance of it on bias and the obsession with AGI seems important.

(If they didnt, it seems an important gap in 'teaching the methods of ~~agreeing with me~~ sanity').

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah he is trying to build his own EA movement. He also wrote a book (which I have not read) which basically argues that people in general are good not evil actually. (Fair enough, but not relevant).

Im still trying to meet him and shake is hand, the resulting matter antimatter explosion will take out the country.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago

Interesting first job your mind goes to there Yud. Might spend a little bit less time around people who regularly use the word goon but who never talk about the mob.

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Via reddits sneerclub. Thanks u/aiworldism.

I have called LW a cult incubator for a while now, and while the term has not catched on, nice to see more reporting on the problem that lw makes you more likely to join a cult.

https://www.aipanic.news/p/the-rationality-trap the original link for the people who dont like archive.is used the archive because I dont like substack and want to discourage its use.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Original title 'What we talk about when we talk about risk'. article explains medical risk and why the polygenic embryo selection people think about it the wrong way. Includes a mention of one of our Scotts (you know the one). Non archived link: https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

Begrudgingly Yeast (@begrudginglyyeast.bsky.social) on bsky informed me that I should read this short story called 'Death and the Gorgon' by Greg Egan as he has a good handle on the subjects/subjects we talk about. We have talked about Greg before on Reddit.

I was glad I did, so going to suggest that more people he do it. The only complaint you can have is that it gives no real 'steelman' airtime to the subjects/subjects it is being negative about. But well, he doesn't have to, he isn't the guardian. Anyway, not going to spoil it, best to just give it a read.

And if you are wondering, did the lesswrongers also read it? Of course: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (Warning, spoilers for the story)

(Note im not sure this pdf was intended to be public, I did find it on google, but might not be meant to be accessible this way).

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

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Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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