Reading Heinlein as a kid isn’t even especially notable, but it’s Yud so he definitely means the polyamory advocacy stuff specifically.

Luckily we should be getting trickle down free will, since all universes are (of course) able to develop technology to perfectly simulate universes of lesser complexity, which seems to imply the existence of a special universe of ultimate complexity where all others emanate from, possibly in line with ain soph or equivalent mystical concept.

I don’t know how that squares with that blabbing about the tegmarkian multiverse that supposedly posits that mathematically simple universes “exist ‘more’”, which siskind probably just included to reinforce his consciousness as a non-physical, mathematical object premise.

I didn’t say things I believed false

What a peculiar and lawyer-friendly way to say “I didn’t outright lie”.

Committing suicide to “force the coin toss” like in SOMA’s backstory is approaching transhumanist praxis.

I think this is a response to Yud’s teaching that a copy of you is really you

It’s not so much a response as it is just running with it until you hit the concepts of the soul and the godhead face first.

edit: it’s also mercifully short, like not even 3k words.

Christianity certainly runs the gamut wrt to free will, from it being strictly necessary to explain away the problem of evil to, well, Calvinism.

I think SBF’s Scamfest Spectacular did a good enough job of that already :P

Still, being a possible hotbed for domestic terrorism is a whole different ballpark of having the authorities meddle into your day-to-day.

Microslop exec floats the idea that companies should be required to buy additional software licenses for each AI agent

“All of those embodied agents are seat opportunities,” Jha said, envisioning organizations with more agents than humans — each effectively a user that must pay for a software license, or “seat” in industry lingo.

A company with 20 employees might buy 20 Microsoft 365 licenses today. If each employee gets five AI agents, and the workforce shrinks to 10 people, that could still mean 50 paid seats.

Also, it’s apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an “embodied agent”, words mean nothing.

That rationalism-slobbering Sam Kriss article from a short while back also namedropped it.

According to the claude code leak the state of the art is to be, like, really stern and authoritative when you are begging it to do its job:

“Throw insane amounts of compute at some developer fan fiction and hope for the best.” is such a good description of vibe coding.

Zack from SMBC once called habitual AI users ‘clanker crankers’ in a comic and I’m still disappointed it didn’t catch on.

He definitely has a history of mocking rationalist mythology but I don’t know if he is aware how actually problematic they are as a subculture.

Meaning, I can see him giving the benefit of a doubt to a random rationalist event and going to promote his books (about how immigration is good and space colonization is bad lmao) as long as there are enough levels of abstraction between the event and the subculture’s rampant eugenicism and incelism, but I don’t know he knows that means that his mug appearing right next to siskind, yud, aela and hanson would be a really bad look.

TLP dropped off the face of the earth after he stopped his blog on an incelly note so who knows. Siskind did a huge review of Sadly, Porn when people started realizing it was probably the vaunted TLP book, I feel they’d love to co-opt him.

Truly great snapshot of astral scott right in the middle of smelling his own fart.

Oh jolly can’t wait for this to go viral enough that my boss schedules time to ask me about it.

The tumblr thread is a must read if you’ve ever been near HIPAA regulated infrastructure.

Also is it just me or does the trailer have a weirdly large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

Most of the views are probably the target demographic feeding it to a chatbot to summarize without ever opening the page in a real browser.

This account is just that sort of shit 24/7, just constant linkedin lunacy that everyone should treat as rage bait and move on.

Obligatory link to the previous thread

exciting new roles of liquid management

algorithmic uh sovereignity

fantastic

Sam Altman wants his eye scanning crypto bullshit to be used to verify AI agents so he can save the internet from himself.

Rather than blocking automated traffic outright as a safety or data-protection measure, World [previously world coin] suggests sites could instead require AI agents to present an associated World ID token to prove they represent an actual human who’s behind any request. In this way, the site could allow agents to access limited resources like restaurant reservations, ticket purchase opportunities, free trials, or even bandwidth without worrying about a single user flooding the process with thousands of anonymous bots. The same idea could apply to sensitive reputational systems like online forums and polls, where it’s important to prevent automated astroturfing or dogpiling.

increasing fidelity of game graphics was actually making games better, or just more expensive

I really liked what Control did with cranking up the verisimilitude and the photorealism, namely to accentuate the uncanniness and really up the new weird vibe.