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finally figured out my meaning in life & that's to provide value to shareholders

@ZyMazza @teodorio He who was 20yo and didn't find materialism appealing shall cast the first stone

@teodorio @orphcorp so i was 20 once and actually i studied the humanities and for a little while there, i uhhhh, well, with materliaism, you see... I thought.... uhhhh...

people in san francisco are really quite anti humanity in general and cannot help themselves to deal with uncertainty. they prefer (like the famous rationalist cults coming out of there) to simplify and make humans seem deterministic and unidimensional. don't let them, it's the pinnacle of the Anthropocene and we will rule the stars

@sebkrier thought this was a @somewheresy post at first

We're extending Kirkland Rotisserie Chicken access on all Gold Star and Executive memberships, as well as keeping free sample rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

@m_ashcroft turns out claude won't switch you down to opus if you are pure of heart

@orphcorp except not health problems because the moment you try we’ll shunt you down to the worse model

@orphcorp you're telling me I stayed up all week to the point of insanity, squeezing every drop of magic from claude, when I could have just slept?

to no-one's surprise, you have seven (7) more days to exploit the ultra mega dangerous superintelligence to solve all your health problems, win friends, influence people, make money, and find God for a mere 20 bucks

@ZyMazza banger unfortunately I'm in this post (avoiding social deaths, etc)

Taqiyya is a really interesting doctrine to me because most people seem to believe this intuitively, even for people who belong to religions with no such doctrine, or even explicit tenants against it. If you're unfamiliar, taqiyya isn't simply "lying", it's a permission to conceal your faith, and to even make outward gestures renouncing it to preserve ones life or dignity in an environment of religious persecution. So, for example, famously Jews aren't allowed to bow before idols or a person. In ancient Rome, they had a special exemption because they would literally die before doing that. Taqqiya would allow a muslim living under foreign occupation to "go along to get along" and just bow. Similarly, in feudal Japan when Christianity was being heavily persecuted, many Catholics faced the test of being asked to step on an icon of the Blessed Mother or even Jesus Christ Himself. Being unwilling to do so, many Catholics in Japan were killed for failing this test. Taqiyya would allow a Muslim in a similar situation to step on the icon (not that they allow icons, but you get the point). In the modern world, however, it seems most religious from most faiths practice taqiyya when faced with even the lightest pushback against their beliefs. You'll talk to Christians who will assent to all sorts of modern social mores outwardly, who in private will confess that they deeply disagree with them, just because they fear the incredibly light punishment of social ostracization. Just the other day, I spoke to someone who earnestly argued to me that surely the Church would condone and even encourage me to publicly renounce or recant my faith in Jesus Christ if not doing so would cost me my life or put my family in mortal danger. But the Church teaches no such thing! And it celebrates martyrs willing to die to proclaim that Christ is Lord. See how few Jewish people wear kippot, even otherwise observant ones, simply because its a bit awkward to do so. How many Jews and Christians alive today in the United States, if put in a situation where they had to bow before an idol of a foreign "god" and declare loyalty to it on pain of death would choose death? I suspect vanishingly few! And among them, how many of them would feel in their hearts that they had sinned? I suspect some, but I suspect many more would believe privately in their hearts that they had done the right thing. That God would prefer that they live and renounce Him than die keeping the faith. And I see people living this way in much more minor ways, as I've said. To avoid social deaths, to avoid economic pains. To keep one's high paying job. To impress their atheist boss. And so on and so on. And then I see them making fun of Muslims and their doctrine of taqiyya. "What a lukewarm faith!" they sneer, "that they are allowed not to practice it when it's inconvenient" Yet so many of us live the same way, don't we? But the difference is, we were never given that permission. We chose it for ourselves. Matthew 7:3-5

@thereisnome369 deep throatback

@orphcorp Okay. I’m not proud of it, but my brain had for roughly 0,58s problems to process how the word ended after “deep thro…”.

deep throwback

@goth600 “I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny international law. Stop believing in it. Walk hand in hand into an Exclusive Economic Zone, one last midnight. Brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”

“Past a certain age, a man who still believes in international law can be a bad thing.”

we are about as early in the average person using AI as the average person was in using google ~20 years ago people would also just send you the first thing they found on Google without checking, now they're doing it with AI outputs

@somewheresy oh fuck. Hope you're stable now & feeling better!

I haven’t been posting a lot because I had another flare-up and almost died on Sunday. This time was rough. I’ve been thinking a lot about it

@billyhumblebrag hahahaha

"what is the date of your birth?" "no idea, it's all hearsay your honor"

@viemccoy yeah agree tho it was sort of forced by the medium as I just didn't want to get over the base character limit so I chose to cut from there by abbreviating lol

@orphcorp DeAI is not catchy enough. But you are correct

the dangers of centralized alignment is turning AI into a single epistemic choke point & thus a battleground for institutional/ideological capture +humans reverse aligning themselves to a unifocal AI & individualism/multipolarity being stomped out DeAl is an answer to this

@billardkarr based based based

Based

@TSBurkhardt "lets be realistic"

@orphcorp this sounds nice but lets be realistic, ai arms race is the final monopoly technology and alignment is gonna be used for singular objectives. its the machine god, not machine gods

@viemccoy it kept getting better!

@orphcorp hayek reference made me 10x more bullish on thinky

Austrian School of Artificial Intelligence just dropped