Architeuthis

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I think it's more like you'll have a rat commissar deciding which papers get published and which get memory-holed while diverting funds from cancer research and epidemiology to research on which designer mouth bacteria can boost their intern's polygenic score by 0.023%

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The point is that you are still calling it out as racism, a term racists very much don't like. Meaning, the "racism" is the important part in "scientific racism", because it unequivocally tells us that the science in question is shit.

The actual euphemism for sciency racism is human biodiversity studies.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"not on squeaking terms"

by the way I first saw this in the stubsuck

transcriptI know this is about rationalism but the unexpanded uncapitalized "rat" name really makes this post. Imagining a world where this is a callout post about a community of rodents being racist. We're not on squeaking terms right now cause they're being problematic :/

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This just comes off as your extended justification about not liking to think about things too hard.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Genetic engineering and/or eugenics is the long term solution. Short-term you are supposed to ban GPU sales, bomb non-complying datacenters and have all the important countries sign an AI non-proliferation treaty that will almost certainly involve handing over the reins of human scientific progress to rationalist approved committees.

Yud seems explicit that the point of all this is to buy enough time to create our metahuman overlords.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Honestly, it gets dumber. In rat lore the AGI escaping restraints and self improving unto godhood is considered a foregone conclusion, the genetically augmented smartbrains are supposed to solve ethics before that has a chance to happen so we can hardcode a don't-kill-all-humans moral value module to the superintelligence ancestor.

This is usually referred to as producing an aligned AI.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When this was posted to the curatedtumbler subreddit so many people thought it calling out racist pet rat owners.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 29 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Apparently genetically engineering ~300 IQ people (or breeding them, if you have time) is the consensus solution on how to subvert the acausal robot god, or at least the best the vast combined intellects of siskind and yud have managed to come up with.

So, using your influence to gradually stretch the overton window to include neonazis and all manner of caliper wielding lunatics in the hope that eugenics and human experimentation become cool again seems like a no-brainer, especially if you are on enough uppers to kill a family of domesticated raccoons at all times.

On a completely unrelated note, adderall abuse can cause cardiovascular damage, including heart issues or stroke, but also mental health conditions like psychosis, depression, anxiety and more.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For reference, that's the guy who wants Thiel to give him 40M to put a baskeball-player-sized titanium cross on the moon.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Sabine Hossenfelder claims she finally got cancelled, kind of - Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy cut ties with Sabine Hossenfelder.

Supposedly the MCMP thought publicly shitting on a paper for clicks on your very popular youtube channel was antideontological. Link goes to reddit post in case you don't want to give her views.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

In collaboration with cryptocurrency outfits Coinbase, MetaMask, and the Ethereum foundation, Google also produced an extension that would integrate the cryptocurrency-oriented x402 protocol, allowing for AI-driven purchasing from crypto wallets.

what could possibly go wrong

In either case, the goal is to maintain an auditable trail that can be reexamined in cases of fraud.

Which is a thing that you only need to worry about if you use these types of agents.

Which in any case you can't, because

The protocol is built for a future in which AI agents routinely shop for products on customers’ behalf and engage in complex real-time interactions with retailers’ AI agents.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Can't see how this doesn't defeat the purpose, if you have a mock data generator of sufficient fidelity you already have a well-defined mechanism to describe the data, shouldn't you be using that instead of developing a new model to capture the characteristics of the model that creates those characteristics?

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