mjkerrison 🔸️

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

Alternative theses: bsky.app/profile/dyst...

(not meaning to, idk, police you or anything, just working through this out loud)

Lol yes that does seem to be what happens. I guess I was interested to see what looked like a number of concessions on technicalities in the quoted thread, and I don't think even those might be warranted!

4o would beg to differ on the backswing there

Also curious as to in which sense a given person means they're stochastic. Talking about randomly initialising the weights seems daft; temperature/softmax seems like a daft target; what's left? There was a paper recently IIRC showing (intuitively?) same input same output (barring temp)

The most compelling explanation I've heard is that it's overfitting on the social media war: common knowledge is, and I guess status is tied up in declaring that, Big Tech cannot live up to its own promises and only delivers enshittification.

this is exhaustive and also has a hilariously put-upon tone that I appreciate. Focus on the power use and the bad effects of the outputs and the negative social externalities!

I don't know what team you consider yourself on, and don't care if you block me, but please stop shooting your own team in the foot by telling them factual inaccuracies that will cause them not to take action when it matters. You are abdicating the most important conversation of history.

I like that you only followed me after this reply lol didn't realise there was going to be a test 😂

Yeah it was tbh even through a bunch of sauce

Not least of all because you then need a RNG for your RNG lol

Bad (illegal?) solution(?): 99 flips - randomise the order of the interval and flip until you get heads, then pick the one at that position. If tails at 99, pick the 100th.

I think it must be driven by the Lump of Labour fallacy... While other foreign born Americans do get & create jobs, they're not the plum prizes (that people think *they* could get or something??). Eli's reply seems right to me.

falaffle

Incredible, no notes, more please

CEO killing, real bad stuff seemingly coming out of Syria, o1 eval... tough news week for a new dad (this one)

Lot of great bits in the fish episode recently - was a great challenge to assumptions I didn't even realise I had!

2 conspiracy theory ideas:
- Musk enshittifying competitors
- Altman drumming up demand for that worldcoin UUID thing

I prefer {renv} but same idea

Would it be right to infer you define alignment as 'does what user intends' rather than 'priorities notkilleveryoneism'? I'd say this is different evidence for different definitions...

Google co-founder Larry Page is reportedly not worried about machine superintelligence, not because he doesn't think it could kill everyone, but because he doesn't seem to care!

Some of the stuff Cruz points to just seems like reasonable object-level beliefs rather than pandering? I'd be surprised if Cruz (or much of the rest of the right) would have proved more useful/stalwart coalition members - e.g. for SB1047 it seems like a16z et al subverted people of all stripes.

I'm disinclined to take this motte & bailey as too much evidence for anything; presumably Cruz would have found another bailey.

suitcase pile looming directly above the head, no less

this Deep Utopia could have been a flowchart

Just a little post for all you EA forum users as a treat

Anyone know when Draft-Amnesty-Week-Draft Amnesty Week is?

Should have been Ghost in the Smell