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20 days ago“The CCP is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler was elected” is… a take
Gonna put that down to really really bad historical knowledge
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“We convinced the dumbest people in the country that our made-up problems were real, and now we have a sad because they took us seriously.”
“I no longer believe that effective altruism and democracy are compatible”.
Anywhoo, did not know the scaling of voting power to karma before. Interesting.
oh god has he spawned???
Shorter Moldbug: I am smarter than the framers of the US Constitution. Also, those traitors were wrong.
Kokotajlo is a new name to me. What’s his background? Prolific LW poster?
The preview image is … a choice
The obvious effort is to mark each temporal milestone, then post snarkily as each is missed
A markov chain is smarter than the current POTUS.
To be scrupulously fair there were multiple banners on LW announcing that prices would rise unless locked in early. NFC what they started at though, maybe $400?
Personally you would have to pay me $5,500 + room and board to force me to attend.
LOL from the comments
[…] “people having unreasonably high expectations for epistemics in published work” is definitely a cost of dealing with EAs!
Herostraticly renowned.
I got caught on that quote too…
Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence”.
Science-fiction solutions for science-fiction problems!
Let’s see what the comments say!
Considering current human distributions and a lack of 160+ IQ people having written off sub-100 IQ populations as morally useless […]
Dude are you aware where you are posting.
Just hope it never happens, like nuke wars?
Yeah that’s what ran the Cold War, hopes and dreams. JFC I keep forgetting these are kids born long after 1989.
Could you do all the research on a boat in the ocean? Excuse the naive question.
No, please keep asking the naive questions, it’s what provides fodder for comments like this .
(regarding humans having “[F]ixed skull size” and can therefore a priori not compete with AI):
Artificial wombs may remove this bottleneck.
This points to another implied SF solution. It’s already postulated by these people that humans are not having enough babies, or rather the right kind of humans aren’t (wink wink). If we assume that they don’t adhere to the Platonic ideal that women are simply wombs and all traits are inherited from males, then to breed superbabies you need buy-in from the moms. Considering how hard it is for these people to have a normal conversation with the fairer sex, them both managing to convince a partner to have a baby and let some quack from El Salvador mess with its genes seems insurmountable. Artificial wombs will resolve this nicely. Just do a quick test at around puberty to determine the God-given IQ level of a female, then harvest her eggs and implant them into artificial wombs. The less intelligent ones can provide eggs for the “Beta” and “Gamma” models…
But you don’t go from a 160 IQ person with a lot of disagreeability and ambition, who ends up being a big commercial player or whatnot, to 195 IQ and suddenly get someone who just sits in their room for a decade and then speaks gibberish into a youtube livestream and everyone dies, or whatever.
These people are insane.
This is hilarious. For ages every time Urbit has appeared in tech aggregators the original connection with Yarvin has been raised, and the proponents have snippily replied he’s not longer involved. No idea what passive-aggressive bullshit they’ll invent next time now that he’s back in charge, baby!
From the comments
The average person concerned with existential risk from AGI might assume “safety” means working to reduce the likelihood that we all die. They would be disheartened to learn that many “AI Safety” researchers are instead focused on making sure contemporary LLMs behave appropriately.
“average person” is doing a lot of work here. I suspect the vast amount of truly “average people” are in fact concerned that LLMs will reproduce Nazi swill at an exponential scale more than that they may actually be Robot Hitler.
Turns out if you spend all your time navelgazing and inventing your own terms, the real world will ignore you and use terms people outside your bubble use.
The number of people who created countries can be counted on one hand, especially if they’re successful.
Simon Bolivar helped a lot of people do it, but did not reap much material reward for doing so, apart from being a rich criollo to begin with.
Napoleon famously redrew the map of Europe, and most people would call him successful in many regards. Sama having a Napoleon complex would be on brand.
Any other examples ?
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