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hey, i’ve gotten notes complaining that i’m friendly with people getting called out and asking why. if i’m friendly with people its usually because they’re lovely and precious friends its that simple. literally fuck off if you’re some rando coming to badmouth any of them to me because you saw them in a callout lol
actually thinking of hpmor reminded me I was wondering... when lesswrong had its moment in the news a month or two ago cause of the ziz stuff did any of those people pick up on "three worlds collide"? I feel like that's a good one to get lesswrong on. wasn't there like a minor worldbuilding side note that they thought sexual assault wasn't bad in the future? you gotta bring that up if you're dragging yudkowsky
yeah I was remembering that right. you're not doing your job if you don't put this in your rationalist exposé I think
if you want to "get lesswrong" on things why stop there?
wow, yudkowsky really thinks that pain and suffering is good, and that sex is bad?!
and of course, how could you leave out the fact that yudkowsky thinks that if you meet aliens who eat their own babies the correct thing to do is self-modify so that you also eat your own babies?!
i guess what i'm saying is that it is somewhat surprising that people don't spend more time trying to pass off excerpts from yudkowsky's fictional writing as representative of what he supposedly really believes; but i think its a good thing that they don't, and it seems weird to encourage people to be more dishonest in how they write exposés, or to wish that even more energy was devoted to "dragging" people online.
It feels like the problem she's talking about here are similar to how Microsoft tried to push recording your computer activity for ai analysis as a default not too long ago with their recall feature.
The fact that most people are willing to trade away privacy and security for convenience might seem like just a silly thing, but if that attitude starts getting treated like the default it could become increasingly annoying to avoid making that trade off.
I could see a future where having an ai assistant with access to all of your data is as necessary as having a smart phone is today. You'll be able to get by without one if you really have to; but you'll regularly interact with systems that take it as a given that everyone has one, and which just don't function properly, or maybe not even at all, if you don't.
i... somewhat agree? obviously privacy is good (i basically exclusively use signal, for example), but at the same time ai agents are extremely useful! i disagree that on-chip is a red herring, we keep getting more and more powerful ai agents on-device and the ability to leverage small models to do important things (like recall concepts from earlier on in the conversation just for a start) seems like it would be genuinely useful!
there's this concept where if you design a cryptosystem you should know your threat model beforehand, signal already stores your messages (basically) unencrypted in your computer by design! because they understand that if you can read your messages then they are more or less unencrypted. of course, you probably don't want qwen-2.6b-r1 or whatever firing off into the distance with no oversight, but "have some code run in signal/plug into signal to start processing messages" does not strike me as immediately harmful?
there are definitely a lot of ways in which ai agents could be useful.
its precisely because they're so obviously useful that i worry people might trade away less obviously useful, but still important, things so that ai agents can function more conveniently.
looking at it from that cryptosystem perspective, the problem i'm worried about is less that companies don't have a threat model in mind, and more that it becomes increasingly difficult for people to make choices that align with their own threat models.
i do agree that she overstated the necessity of having ai run on cloud computing. especially with deepseek having recently come out, the potential for running ai locally seems more promising than ever.
People who like mantises but aren't that into entomology are always "orchid mantises" this and "orchid mantises" that. Overrated. Can we talk about Toxodera integrifolia for a minute:
Like how are these things real. Girl what is that thorax shape. Why are you wearing eyeliner. And the colors? Absolutely fire. This is a 10/10 insect if you ask me.
Okay I like mantises and I enjoy some of the more lesser-known ones but HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS ABSOLUTE POKEMON BEFORE?? I LOVE HER????
Okay actually you know what, I'm not done going insane here. This whole genus is just batshit insane. I just looked up more of them and my only responses were "What the fuck is this?" "What the shit is that?!" because seriously look at these things.
Just... Look at these beauties. I have never been more in love with an insect in my life. I want to smooch them all on their perfect little mantis heads and cradle their tiny mantis bodies in my hands. I want to keep them and their environment safe from everyone. I LOVE THESE BEAUTIFUL LADIES!
It feels like the problem she's talking about here are similar to how Microsoft tried to push recording your computer activity for ai analysis as a default not too long ago with their recall feature.
The fact that most people are willing to trade away privacy and security for convenience might seem like just a silly thing, but if that attitude starts getting treated like the default it could become increasingly annoying to avoid making that trade off.
I could see a future where having an ai assistant with access to all of your data is as necessary as having a smart phone is today. You'll be able to get by without one if you really have to; but you'll regularly interact with systems that take it as a given that everyone has one, and which just don't function properly, or maybe not even at all, if you don't.
Some people will say things like "I'm a stupid idiot, here's my stupid idiot blog full of bad posts." Personally I can't relate to this, I'm smart and cute and make good posts and meow so sweetly
also while im taking potshots at the US. football is a bloodsport and the only reason it's not acknowledged as one is because the football industry does medical theatre to appease the sensibilities of football fans who do not want to acknowledge that american football is a bloodsport where football players lives are proffered up for their entertainment. do you know how many american football players who have suffered life-destroying TBIs kill themselves by specifically shooting themselves in the heart so that their brains can be preserved and studied, to hopefully end the bloodsport of american football? anyways. "go birds" meme but like genuinely american football is a bloodsport and should be dismantled as a cultural institution. something something the profoundly american impulse to watch people die for their entertainment while refusing to acknowledge that they are responsible for this blood etc.
chug chug chug
born to keg stand forced to sippy milk
ignoring the big red TERF marker for a second, can anyone really answer no to any of these questions?
dude who is really into Harry Potter and Twilight
Yes to all of them, obviously. But also, I really want to come up with the answers that would satisfy the challenge while also making the person who would make such a challenge as angry as possible. I’m thinking Rand as the novelist, Leigh Nash as the musician, etc.
guy who calls anyone who dislikes Atlas Shrugged a misogynist
Leni Riefenstahl as the movie director
would you say that Margaret Thatcher had girl power?
my dad was an earnest fan of anne rice for a while, but he got better
it’s almost like if you ask a guy which female writers or artists he admires and he only mentions the good ones (“Ursula Le Guin, Toni Morrison,”) your eyes narrow and you go hmm okay litbro but what about your appreciation for the shitty female writers, what about your love for the women who are absolute gremlin artists, what about the nepo babies and faildaughters, the bad fanfiction authors, the women pretending to be a different race to promote their book who then fake having cancer, the women whose artistic output is revealed to be a crypto promotion scam, that chick who wrote My Immortal, etc. do you like women or just talent
people will look at this man and go "this is a scary and remorseless killer who will chase you for four miles"
ma'am he can't even chase his own braincell
adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting
none of us are making those appointments huh
Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any
🌂 i recommend buying a better laptop next time.
this person does have a point, though not for the reasons they think. its not that laptops are inherently bad and more unreliable than smartphones, its that smartphones aren't cursed with running windows.
