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another certified rationalism classic yud-rational

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One of my favorite YouTubers, Ross Scott, invited Yudkowski to do an interview, taking at face value the claims that he was an AI expert.

Ross quickly realized that between the two of them he had more practical knowledge of programming and general AI know-how and it deteriorated from there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I remember Yudkowski got mad at me when I told him on Facebook that there was no magic pill to cure his diabetes and he he just had to start exercising and watching his diet. He told me he was to important to risk the Injury from working out. Not too important to offer 10k for a magic potion and try it though. I wish I had just kept quiet and tried to sell him a supplement

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

United States Border Patrol agent David Maland was killed

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

oh boy ulysses would have loved this one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Please, I need details on the middle dominoes. I remember reading a few chapters of that fanfic way back when and thought it was cringe as hell. What on god’s green earth did that Tumblr account give rise to?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

imagine a group of people lead by a guy who dropped out of middle school who are collectively afraid he’s so smart and logical that his ideas are going to lead to the creation of a time-untethered computer who will torture other people in the past that didn’t help build it (unclear whether they want this to happen)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

roko's basilisk is just pascal's wager for unskeptical tech bros

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

gross simplification of the utterly baffling circle that is Eliezer Yudkowsky and his sycophants but it’s all you really need to know to get the essence of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

So like… they really like the book Hyperion?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The last two TrueAnon episodes are about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Oh nice. I’ll be back in like 10 hours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

He was a self help guy for the dumbest nerds of silicon valley. His idea was that if you used logic and reason you could make better decisions in your life. Somehow he then told everyone conservative libertarian theory was the most rational and to also give him money to do workshops about it. Would you belive that he created a sex cult for programmers and after that went as you would expect he was an intellectual dark web kinda guy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And this was the guy that made that silly Harry Potter fanfic? Incredible. Weirded timeline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Bonus, his self insert hero character invents falgsc and uses the contradictions of liberalism to do it. Which he denied when I point out the implications of his work. So like the exact mathematically dumbest smart person. A fascinating case

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought this said all reads read to Yuri at first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago