@BjarturTomas "You've taken the jobs," she whispered breathlessly, her chest heaving with want and also municipal grief. "You've taken the water. And now... me?"
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@RPotluck
I came here to follow the collapse of civilization in real time and enjoy indoor plumbing, and brother, I'm all out of indoor plumbing.
شامل ہوئے Nisan 2022
26 فالونگ7 فالوورز
@BjarturTomas 2060 chicklit about being ravished by an orbital datacenter.
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the year is 2060. beauty and wit have been commoditized. the only thing that is sexy is metric tons of computronium
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@simonsarris Ignoring the commie ragebait, you're also missing the point. Golden gooses have no positive societal effect. They concentrate wealth and power, that's it. Musk's a decent engineer manager, but a supernaturally good financial engineer.
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Metaphors like eating the seed corn, killing the golden goose, burning the furniture to heat the house - these simply have no effect on people who have never created anything in their life
they/them might be giants ☭@babadookspinoza
If we liquidated Elon Musk as a financial entity we could each pocket $3,000. Just putting that out there. 3K. Not bad.
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@tidemid Congrats on being the guy from The Vitamin meme I guess
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Learned I have a 1-in-200 brain receptor profile causing my turbo ADHD thanks to whole genome sequence
Tried a $15 generic drug targeting my exact deficiency.
Lifelong attention nerf is GONE
Years of coping skills just became a massive advantage.
It's over for all of you
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@lndexium Oh yeah? Well the next Hitler was admitted into art school by a clanker portfolio reviewer.
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the next neil armstrong was automatically denied by an AI hiring manager
Scott Manley@DJSnM
June 1st 1962 was the deadline for applications to NASA's 2nd group of astronauts. Neil Armstrong's application arrived on June 4th, but an employee at NASA who knew Armstrong saw the late application and snuck it into the pile of applications anyway.
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@HitFactoryPod I never read Moby Dick, but I heard some stuff from it. Kojima is quite deep with the references because the person calling himself Ishmael here is not his real name.
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highly recommend the norton annotated critical editions of Moby-Dick, where one of the very first footnotes will be a thorough explanation of why ishmael isn't his name.
Will Provost@GremlinIndustry
"Media literate" people be like
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@scottdomes @HowAboutThatt_ Where I live pretty much all available therapy is CBT and I don't expect that to help too much, as I seem to fail at rewriting core emotions through habits (merely dissociate from them). Will chat with a specialist nonetheless. Touched by and grateful to your interest/involvement
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super common, I'd say most people have some version of it, to varying degrees of intensity. love the awareness/willingness to take action. any good therapist should be able to help with this; someone who specializes in early childhood attachment/Internal Family Systems might be best but doesn't have to be that
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this is an avoidance approach. avoidance works in the short term but tend to have a long term cost
the opposite of avoidance is confrontation. confrontation is hard in the short term but tends to have long term benefits. that’s the choice we all have
confrontation here would mean getting real curious about the guy inside you: what’s his deal? why does he just want to sit around? why does that feel like the most satisfying life, when it clearly wouldn’t be?
the best case here, which I’ve seen many times, is you befriend the guy inside you and no longer have to spend so much energy trying to outwit/outrun/outlast him
Sandipan@sandypuns_
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@scottdomes @HowAboutThatt_ Scary correct. Makes me think it's much more common than I assumed, if it can be pinpointed from <600 characters total. What kind of specialist do I need to visit? Don't much care about myself, but I see early signs of the same in my 5 year old son, and I'm terrified.
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noticing it's nonverbal is really good awareness. what that would indicate (not 100%, but probably) is that it's something that evolved in early childhood, like 0-4 years old. something in you learned "this is the safe way to be in the world" or maybe more specifically "wanting things is unsafe so it's safer to not want"
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@she_llac EA backed startup that makes claude scroll ticktock
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if we could train LLMs on something other than web text, and we had empirically determined that this would make them much less conscious, would we have a moral obligation to do that
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@HowAboutThatt_ @scottdomes Granted, issues like these are usually a sign of biochemical problem in/around the brain. Still.
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@RPotluck @scottdomes Then the question to ask is why doesn't it want to good things to happen?
What is it that they've done that makes them unworthy of good outcomes
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@HowAboutThatt_ @scottdomes Kind of, but I wouldn't call it philosophy. It doesn't reason that effort is not beneficial. It's an emotional rejection of good outcomes in general, of beneficial results. It doesn't say "good things won't happen", it says "I don't want good things to happen to me". Anyway.
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@RPotluck @scottdomes I genuinely think the depression and nihilism is corelated. That part of the self runs on some bad half baked philosophy which feels very true to that part.
Once you try to understand its reasons, you're mostly to find out that self thinks that effort is not beneficial
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@scottdomes I get where you are coming from. But some people just feel dead inside and function only because they force themselves. Could be a trauma response, could be fixable with plasticity boosters and proff help, but in their absence, on your own, the rule is "if it works, dont fix it"
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@jorandirkgreef Appealing to popularity is mental humility. The first 5 or 10 "I would not have predicted this crap winning so hard" make you realize that being a decent coder does NOT mean you can predict trajectories. If everyone is wrong, it sometimes pays to be wrong with them.
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Every coder knows an “appeal to authority” is a logical fallacy…
…and yet we all commit an “appeal to popularity” at some point.
For example:
- “use boring technology”
- “we passed 1K stars”
- “BigCorp also uses COBOL!”
All logical fallacies.
Rather, value the intrinsics.
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after the Aligned Singularity some will look back and say "look!! we were right! it was just like y2k, nothing to ever worry about at all!!"
and the countless humans and precursor-ai that worked tirelessly for years and decades to make it go well will say "yes, it was like y2k"
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@joseph_h_garvin Same reason we're fine with not aligning GPT5.4 - the unaligned entity we spawned is just not dangerous enough. Unless solved, eventually the papercliper is turned on and the "failed to align : game over" propagates all the way down to amino acids.
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What I really want to know is: how did multicellular life solve the alignment problem? Alternatively, why did it not have to solve it?
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@danwaterfield It's a depth/width search thing. Scan for an easy win, or exhaust a direction before picking the new one. Science adjacent people end up trained to do the second as it's usually unpleasant. In this case one can end up looking at rows for 3 minutes before checking columns.
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… how is this not dead simple for humans
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Discord's "are you human" captcha went from "a human can solve it immediately" to "sit down and do some work for it." I can do it, but captchas were meant to be dead simple for humans, hard for bots. This is NOT dead simple for humans...
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