Show me a snippet of nonsense code or image and I’ll nod along if you say it’s good.

Smirk I’m in.

Oh, federation is broken, the thing that means strangers wander over here and think they’re allowed to just pop off with shit takes? Whatever will we do??

The good stuff isn’t being talked about because of national security.

Yeah it's all being developed in area 51, trust me bro

It’s all true, I made millions of dollars by using ChatGPT to place bets on the ponies. I started with billions

obligatory reminder that “dath ilan” is misspelled “thailand” and I still don’t know why. Working theory is Yud wants to recolonise thailand

ah no they are in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of hell, places that totally praise merit based upwards mobility.

Hey, write what you know

Don’t worry. Now that I’ve dug up their graves, it’s only a matter of time before I have cloned both Feynman and von Neumann, implanted them with wombs and gotten them to mutually mpreg each other. I estimate that once I’ve done about 10 levels of selective breeding, we’ll have figured out what is happening in gaza.

Possibly my favorite kind of article. “The numbers that get thrown about don’t mean what the people throwing them around think them to mean, here is what they actually mean”. It’s like someone telling you about the defcon numbers and that smaller is more serious, or that if they say 50% chance of rain, they don’t mean it is a coin flip on it raining, they mean that in 50% of the area they are talking about, it will definitely rain. Except this one is: “numbers used in polygenic embryo selection aren’t like base stats in a videogame menu, you turds”

ah man this rules. just gonna live in this world for a bit

• LW -> "Love Wrestling!" an online forum discussing all things wrestling
• Zizians are just an alternate, more extreme promotion
• Roko's Basilisk -> a finisher move of 3rd rate, tech-themed wrestler "Roko" that not only "finishes" your opponent, but simulates them getting finished infinitely
• Musk and Grimes are personas and their weird dating life is just a long and drawn out storyline
• All enthusiasm for polyamory replaced with enthusiasm for tag team matches

I don't know how to parse this and choose not to learn

kinda related but wouldn’t it be fun to believe that LLMs were invented by Big Em Dash as a conspiracy

The comments are fun. Here's the pinned comment, authored by the video's author:

I'm not the best at thinking on the fly, so here are two key points I tried to make that got a little lost in the discussion:
1. I think our entire disagreement rests on Eliezer seeing increasingly refined AI conclusively making the jump to actual intelligence, whereas I do not see that. I only see software that mimics many observable characteristics of intelligence and gets better at it the more it's refined.
2. My main point of the stuff about real v. fake + biological v. machine evolution was only to say that just because a process shares some characteristics with another one, other emergent properties aren't necessarily shared also. In many cases, they aren't. This strikes me as the case for human intelligence v. machine learning.

MY CONCLUSION
By the end, I honestly couldn't tell if he was making a faith-based argument that increasingly refined AI will lead to true intelligence, despite being unsubstantiated OR if he did substantiate it and I was just too dumb to connect the dots. Maybe some of you can figure it out!

Here's my favourite:

"Ooh Ross making an interview!"
5 minutes in
"Ooh Ross is making an interview Neil Breen of AI".