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i saw a space ship blow up once and immediately decided i wanted to get in one
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@tenobrus @deanwball the pairing seems hamfisted enough to read as insincere to the wider public. like who *isn't* going to notice that the two ideological perspectives here are deeply incompatible
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@deanwball in general, not a fan of seeing anthropic align themselves with the catholic church at all. it's an organization that's consistently proven itself to be devoid of moral character. i can perhaps see the necessity for PR, but it doesn't sit well.
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This, from Olah, plainly contradicts the encyclical, which confidently asserts that AI does not have, and never will have, “real” thoughts or feelings. It’s disappointing to see Anthropic align itself with a document that violates their own moral and intellectual principles.
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the idea of locating a "major non-political and purely artistic movement" within the 20th century is extremely funny
Zineb Riboua@zriboua
It’s very odd that despite all the abundance of this century, it still lacks an aesthetic, no major non political and purely artistic movement, no "new avant garde," despite all the complains about individualism, conformity and "community" have never been so overwhelmingly present, weird. Maybe some movements are taking shape and I don’t see them yet.
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@male_leo_xxvi @83dollaroring herasight's predictor model is a ml thing that weights gwas indicators very heavily so the association is uh. not particularly rigorous. i don't think this matters to any of their potential customers though, nor to mister gene "500 iq superbabies" smith here
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It's polygenic. Doesn't mean "has 99.99%le IQ", means "these things are this often found covaried" (assumptions of independence aside). I think this is terrible dirty marketing "Lower IQ"? "Higher IQ"? Makes it look like the chart is itself talking about IQ distribution, not distribution-of-traits that ~map (somehow, maybe, directionally) onto IQ
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we have a rule of thumb in aerospace engineering that says "anything past three significant figures is, in most cases, bullshit"
bell curves and sigfigs remain undefeated for trapping 115s
Gene Smith@GeneSmi96946389
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
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@male_leo_xxvi all signs point to the technomillenarians trying to dump an equal amount of resources into this as they have with ai, disregarding any serious investigation of the consequences of editing genetic mechanisms, and producing a small cohort of very fucked up kids
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The upsides are obvious! The downsides look rare but possibly infinite*.
Consider: at scale, is this recognizably the same species? Evolution will be no longer optimizing for two bodies, it will be optimizing for two bodies and a massive, fragile, capital-laden, technological-human-employment medical-information-industrial complex. The political lever this provides (don't worry, the political won't be felt for a while) will be astounding.
* This stuff is risky. You are allowing many third parties to be involved in the reproduction process. Imagine a malicious actor chooses to anti-select your kids & misrepresent it to you.
Nevertheless, like all transhumanism, it seems inevitable. We were all made, born, and raised in buildings. It's only a few of us left that like to (pretend?) we can still survive outside.
Gene Smith@GeneSmi96946389
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
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@JoshPurtell not necessarily? if we imagine the loci of economic stress to be in global commodities markets and in domestic employment we shouldn't expect to see that reflected directly in gdp on a quarterly basis, at least not for service dominated nations
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it's kind of interesting to imagine how differently the last 3 years would have played out if llms had actually been able to fulfill any of the promises that compelled people to work on them. like if they could actually write code autonomously or actually do research
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@JoshPurtell what is a bump in a forecast of quarterly gdp supposed to tell me
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@Ancapta @EmericanAconomy i have no reason to care about you, your past, or your advocacy. i just think it's funny
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@sigfig @EmericanAconomy other way around. the people who influenced me as a young teen were overwhelmingly low-executive function autists like me. that, plus being transgender, is what made me particularly susceptible.
i want to prevent others from falling in the same trap i did
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former gifted child posting
Rachel ❤️🔥🌲@Ancapta
Science was my passion since I was a baby, but because I was groomed into sociopathic woke leftism by unemployed Discord communists, I felt I had to throw my life away and major in the arts. Engineering was "evil." A noble life was subsisting entirely on govt. and NGO grants.
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@EmericanAconomy propelled by hate and desperation the kids have summoned an ghastly image of a discord user with low autism and high executive function
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@sigfig turns out i stepped on a ancap college kid landmine, that's my bad though i really should have seen it coming
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@EmericanAconomy you're gonna need to pack up all omb reporting into a six paragraph blog post with randomly bolded words. and replace any real graphs with fake ones demonstrating trends on immeasurable quantities
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@sigfig well they all claim to read, and they certainly wrote that long ass harry potter fanfic
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I'm begging EAs to simply read the Duplication and Cost Savings Report, or anything from OMB or CIGIE.
Cost cutting in the government is a matter of political will.
Eliezer Yudkowsky@allTheYud
Sorry, but real DOGE has never been tried. The level of that predictable fuckup is so great that I do not conclude there is no cuttable government waste, but that you cannot begin to target it with 20 kids blindly searching for leftist keywords.
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