Sadly somebody trained them on the wrong dataset

We could ask a LLM and see what they want us to call them. ;)

Choices choices, improve my dating life for 2500 bucks, or improve my investing life for 2500 bucks. And even worse, they all have sites that tell me I only have 30 minutes to decide to take this limited time offer! (I doubt Intro does that latter part, but it certainly was one of those evil tricks they used in the past).

E: Lol, looked up the app (at least I think I did, there are a lot of things called ‘Intro’) and saw a review (from 2020) on the apple store by a ‘relationship expert’ (who smartly used the review to promote their own site, very grift mindset, well done).

ChatGPT-to-third world employee? Bit too long, we prob can find a non-offensive shorter word for that.

They are VC’s they would never dirty their hands building something themselves. They would invest into an enterprising startup (making pipebombs with a LLM) they inspired.

The only people really at risk is the people who end up holding the bags.

Another manifesto? Considering the high percentage of people who first write a manifesto and then do a terrorism/shooting I’m now scared.

Your friend was also spreading fake news. Dril said it was real, xcancel. But yes your friend was correct.

That feels like a too perfect tweet, which I also couldn’t find a direct link to. So I’m going to assume it was faked. Did find these prophetic words however, Xcancel

‘planes could not fly’ is some sort of weird pro AI argument. It is the ‘we are still early’ or ‘people were also against the internet when it still arrived’ made famous by cryptocurrencies.

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Yeah mentioned it does come up quite often, but rokos basilisk just is funnier.

E: flannyo (used to post in sneerclub) is in that thread and actually arguing with people and pushing back on the post a bit. Which isn’t going super badly compared to if you tried something like that on themotte vs r/ssc.

Annoying that TWG is also doing the slimy thing which is so common in internet trolling nowadays. The text says ‘im not a reliable source’ the subtext (or well with this retweet, text) says ‘make my post a reliable source and attack David’.

(What makes this even worse is that the weird far rightwingers from themotte see all leftwingers as behaving like this, and the, to them, super leftwing TWG is feeding into their stereotypes. Well done on feeding the far right propaganda machine).

Saw somebody on r/ssc go ‘why do they always focus on roko’s basilisk and never any of the more important things like Yuds lack of qualifications or academic rigor’ and saw them also lol that we here apparently didn’t want to spend the 2hs to read it (and well that woulds also require 4h+ to then respond about all the various weird inaccuracies). Which is was an amusing few posts. Yeah, we don’t have the energy/desire to read all those posts, but neither do you as Yuds lack of qualifications etc comes up quite often.

a deficiency of tractors in the training data

Just one more dataset bro, i promise bro just one more dataset and it’ll fix everything bro. bro just one more dataset

‘Sorry no singularity, climate change is an existential threat after all’.

(I’m bitterly reminded of the SSC post where he starts with ‘why don’t we hear about the ozone layer anymore, well the scientists fixed it!’ where he goes after the environmentalist movement. There is only one problem with the ‘we fixed the ozone layer’ thing. Butt wait, there is more!)

iirc he predicted the singularity somewhere in 2040 so it does make sense, even if it looks weird.

I think that might have been bad faith, but im not sure.

Only one problem with this, he will not mention he edited days after publishing it, so then people go ‘sneer club is whining about X, but the article clearly says Y they are lying again!’ so hope somebody made an archive of the initial post. Wait, I can just check that. People did so interested parties could diff it.

I love how on firefox you can ctrl+scrollwheel to make text larger or smaller and it persists on that site. (awful is at 140% for me)

Yeah, wikipedia editor is weird and has long history doesn’t come as a huge shock to most people (im looking at it from the neutral side here). Doesn’t help that the format is a hugeass long blog, and Rationalist writing tends to feel very off-putting to normal people (“Feels obsessive if you need +20 pages to make a case.”). Think people would care more if this wicked editor was the head of some group which feels like a large cult, and has weirdly large influence on the tech industry, or linked to a large scam. TWG is also quite a weird guy himself. Or this part of his defense “Sure. Given that, do you endorse the choice of outlets like PinkNews and Huffington Post as reliable sources given their history of fabrication and errors, as discussed in the article?” Being against PinkNews makes you look weirdly anti-lgbt, and being against the huffington post in the current year is weird as their era of clickbait bs articles is long behind them and they actually write news.

So yeah no big surprise that when it breaks containment nothing happens and nobody really seems to care. There is a funny parrallel between TWG’s post and our sneering at LW. If you forgive me quoting Gaiman: “It it is the prerogative of the fool to say the emperor has no clothes. But in the end the emperor is still emperor and the fool is still a fool.”

E: It prob also doesn’t help TWG’s case that when people look up David they see he is an anti-cryptocurrencies person.

E2: what is interesting is that this place seems to be the best documentation of all the different arguments going on about the post. We seem to link all the various places it is talked about, none of them seem to actually point back. (And of course it was posted on r/destiny and r/kotakuinaction2 (no idea why it is nr 2 now).