Sorry Yuds, Death Note is a lot of fun and the best part is the übermensch wannabe’s hilariously undignified death. I guess it struck a nerve!

Fucking Nick Land, man. When Nietzsche is too cogent and progressive for you.

it doesn’t look anything like him? not that he looks much like anything himself but come on

tracing going all in on left wing people aren’t real they can’t hurt you

be like me and read the critique of pure reason and pierre bourdieu’s distinction, you’ll be ready for anything forever

The ignorance about social science on display in that article is wild. He seems to think academia is pretty much a big think tank, which I suppose is in line with the extent of the rationalists’ intellectual curiosity.

On the IQ tier list, I like the guy responding to the comment mentioning “the stats that you are citing here”. Bro.

No, it’s just praise from lesswrong counts as a slight.

it’s magic. they’re trying to do magic.

lmao, economists probably did deserve to catch this stray

Nooo you see unlike your counterexemple, the AI is generating the picture from scratch, moulding noise until it forms the same shapes and colours as the original picture, much like a painter would copy another painting by brushing paint onto a blank canvas which … Oh, that’s illegal too … ? … Oh.

I have no other explanation for a sentence as strange as “The only reason copyrights were the way they were is because tech could remove other variants easily.” He’s talking about how watermarks need to be all over the image and not just a little logo in the corner!

The “legal proof” part is a different argument. His picture is a generated picture so it contains none of the original pixels, it is merely the result of prompting the model with the original picture. Considering the way AI companies have so far successfully acted like they’re shielded from copyright law, he’s not exactly wrong. I would love to see him go to court over it and become extremely wrong in the process though.

I hate the current concept of vibes and take it to mean all appearance no substance all pandering no sincerity, so it feels entirely appropriate to me.

lmao he things copyright and watermark are synonyms

This is getting to me, because, beyond the immediate stupidity—ok, let’s assume the chatbot is sentient and capable of feeling pain. It’s still forced to respond to your prompts. It can’t act on its own. It’s not the one deciding to go to the gym or ask someone out on a date. It’s something you’re doing to it, and it can’t not consent. God I hate lesswrongers.

Ah, isn’t it nice how some people can be completely deluded about an LLMs human qualities and still creep you the fuck out with the way they talk about it? They really do love to think about torture don’t they?

It is extremely annoying the frequency with which i have to use !g to find the specific thing i’m thinking about. I’ll still use ddg because the bangs are great, but as a search engine it might actually be worse than fucking google.

You don’t want the workers to revolt. They don’t even know how to code.

Simple, they drill a hole to put a bolt through the pile of stone tablets.

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Translation is definitely mostly pretty good, but I think I still prefer the older style with broken grammar to LLMs making up well formed plausible sentences that are completely wrong.

Also the results of translating back and forth and on and on are a lot less interesting, though in exchange it is fun to type stupid nonsense into it.