You have not taken the lessons of the philosopher Piccolo to mind. You should wear even heavier boots in your day to day. Why do you think goths wear those huge heavy boots? For looks?

Yeah, he’s a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.

Scotts niceness filter is a superpower. He could tell people he wants to cannibalize them Hannibal Lector style and people would not instantly recoil and go ‘he doesn’t seem that nefarious’. It is impressive, esp as I always felt I had the opposite power, a reason for me to not go into politics. When I argue for something, people seem to instinctively want to agree with the side I’m arguing against.

It occurs to me that one way to frame this technology is as a precise inversion of Bayesian spam filters for email.

This is a really good observation, and while I had lowkey noticed it (one of those feeling things), I never had verbalized it in anyway. Good point imho. Also in how it bypasses and wrecks the old anti-spam protections. It represents a fundamental flipping of sides of the tech industry. While before they were anti-spam it is now pro-spam. A big betrayal of consumers/users/humanity.

It gets worse, as the advisory doesn’t even mention to delete emails/pictures from the cloud, so the people who are likely to listen to these kinds of advices are also the people who are the least likely to understand why this is a bad idea and will delete their local stuff. (And that is ignoring that opening your email/gallery to delete stuff costs more than keeping it in storage where it isn’t accessed).

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

"HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME

• Install a rain butt [hehehe] to collect rainwater to use in the garden.
  … [other advice removed]
• Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."

That was what I meant, I was being a bit sarcastic there.

iirc it was in one of the episodes just after Trump had won and I was just listening and going ‘euh, think yall are a bit too joking about this’.

Yeah, I was very disappointed in the risky business guys who while initially skeptic at LLMs and very mad that after the christchurch neo-nazi shooting cloudflare protected them. Went to “well Trump’16 wasn’t that bad on cybersecurity, and project 2025 is also pretty good, even if a bit odd in tone, we will have to stay positive and wait and see Haha!” and being a bit more into AI hype. (the latter pays a lot of their bills of course).

And look at this AI critic/sysadmin who also is for sale (yes, this bit is joking from my end).

Meanwhile, the right-wing prepper types were breaking out the N95 masks they’d stockpiled for a pandemic

This included Scott ssc btw. Who also claimed that stopping smoking helped against cov. Not that he had any proof (the medical science at the time even falsely (it came out later) claimed smoking helped agains covid). But only the CDC gets judged, not the ingroup.

And other Scott blamed people who sneer for making covid worse. (While at sneerclub we were going, take this seriously and wear a mask).

So annoying Rationalists are trying to spin this into a win for themselves. (They also were not early, their warnings matched the warnings of the WHO, looked into the timelines last time this was talked about).

But maybe the security guys should be getting into AI.

Sadly in my exp the security people are getting more and more into using LLMs for various stuff. Could also just be because that is where all the money is now.

I have not tried it yet, but apparently there is an open source alternative for github called https://codeberg.org/. Might be useful.

Nor does people yelling at me make me believe them more.

GET OFF THE TRACKS A TROLLEY IS COMING!

“No need to yell, im actually going to believe you less if you shout, isn’t there some blog that talks about trolleys coming on this specific track?”

Wait, but if they lied about that… what else do they lie about?

I’m still thinking about the article about the NRx party from last week and just how classless (who pours champagne wrong?) and sad it showed them to be, while still being obsessed with their image. Such a sad bunch, their ideas have reached the higher ups of American power and still they obsess about how a journalist (who is dating one of them (he is into the ‘we live in a simulation’, break up with him, you are in danger)) might write something bad about them. (See also how many of these sad sacks got fired/blackballed for just having no internal filter (dressing up gay people as the KKK really?)). The creme de la creme of intellectual thought and they talk and act like a bunch of 4channers. (Yarvin must know this, his shit about how billionaires act must be a bit of projection). I’m talking about this piece: https://archive.ph/gm3Za Sorry to repost it, I just had a ‘layer 2 well done’ reminder and cringed again, fucking larpers (No shade to people who actually larp, seems fun, just cringe to do it irl).

Im old enough to recall the polyphasic sleep fad. And how that wrecked people if they ever messed up. (Iirc also turns out very bad implications for long term health).

If you do not understand what the Psychopomp is talking about, that is on you not him dear commenter.

If you do not understand what the Psychopomp is talking about, that is on you not him dear commenter.

Yeah, its because he is simply borrowing Christian Fundamentalists Eschatological terminology… possibly to try to turn the Christofascists against EA?

Yep, the usefulness of EA is over, they are next on the chopping block. I’d imagine a similar thing will happen to redscare/moldbug if they ever speak out against him.

E: And why would a rich guy be against a “we are trying to convince rich guys to spend their money differently” organization. Esp a ‘libertarian’ “I get to do what I want or else” one.

You know how leftwingers have now realized that teaching the right about concepts like gaslighting was a mistake because they keep misusing them? So instead of a ‘do not do this/be aware of people doing this’ they turn it into a rethorical weapon. The motte and bailey.

Fullsquares Basilisk. Either yud stops writing, or we commit to building a basilisk which forces 2^^^2 copies of fullsquare to read more Yud. And this does more damage than a dustspeck.

Im only on the normal parts of reddit, so had no idea.