you-have-just-experienced-things

natural language fluent teddy bears that incidentally scold the child about the One China policy is like... it makes sense given everything else what happened but like... send this to lesswrong in 2015, jesus christ. what have they done to us

this is not a useful way of thinking about modern methods. most of this space is irrelevant because it's not accessible to us, and we are not uniformly sampling from the subset we can reach

relatable tbh, I also sometimes feel the temptation to define my problems as impossibly high dimensional spaces

The Design Space of Minds-In-General — LessWrong People ask me, "What will Artificial Intelligences be like?  What will they do?  Tell us your amazing story about the future." …

'fraid this one goes way back
www.lesswrong.com/posts/tnWRXk...

lots of nostalgia for this image but it was also one of the worst mental models to come out of lesswrong

stack more layers, got it

same! but it came out of SSC discourse norms which were already too far gone

whoops - "ideological turing test", basically "can you write the argument for a given position such that a supporter of that position would think was written by one of their own"

oh, the joke is that you can choose to capitalize the loan instead of paying interest

I actually kinda like the intellectual turing test as an exercise, but it was too little and too late

imo the strongest critique of rationalist discourse norms is that they failed operationalize rationality as a team sport. emphasis on internal steelmanning over structured public debate (and dismissing all related prior art as "rhetoric") is a notable example

that thread is much, much better than the book it's discussing. (there's some good writing, but misunderstands some of the core arguments, including the titular basilisk)

🤷‍♀️ "works on my claude"

no this is great I'm glad you reposted because I missed it live

I kinda want to blame TechCrunch for this, all press looks adversarial after a decade of free hypemongering

aha here is the reaction I was trying to find lol

that's my point yes

I have no love for Metz but tech people were hilariously overtuned, misreading very mundane stuff as hostile

My favorite (even sillier) example was tech people objecting to this paragraph from an otherwise glowing article on the xz CVE

uh oh I've acclimated to Coaticook ice cream and now American ice cream tastes like sugar water

you-have-just-experienced-things on X: "everyone has overindexed on 'AI girlfriends' but the real user retention trap is better tamagotchi" / X everyone has overindexed on 'AI girlfriends' but the real user retention trap is better tamagotchi

I'm a little confused as to why it hasn't happened already
x.com/y_h_j_e_t/st...

thebes on X: "they mostly try to keep the instincts neutral to keep control of the germline from becoming an ideological struggle, but human observers have noticed the robust debate around veganism in older texts abruptly drops off, and all the aliens are vegan now they don't talk about it" / X they mostly try to keep the instincts neutral to keep control of the germline from becoming an ideological struggle, but human observers have noticed the robust debate around veganism in older texts abruptly drops off, and all the aliens are vegan now they don't talk about it

I want to trap you in "all the aliens are vegan now" but I don't know how to get out of it
x.com/voooooogel/s...

in the other video I posted he describes M3GAN -> Horizon Line -> The Perfection as "book moves" which is very funny to me

type of guy who is yimby but only for datacenters

YouTube video by The Library of Letourneau The God of Movie Trivia Has Been Unleashed

my wife is more into nl than I am, she recommended
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S5f...

putting "get it twisted" at the beginning of this is devious because it's hard to resist mentally hearing rest in nl's voice

not a good heuristic, but an amusing one: "if I had read this argument before LLMs, what I would I think of it now"

@norvid-studies.bsky.social claims

reminds me of

"for us, the living" is a wild read and people should talk about it more

(this joke will be funnier in 2-3 years after we have a huge private credit crunch)