The Snark Urge

The LLM edit shows a lack of care and detail. Bloodless, bland, not compelling. I would prefer to say things the human way, and I prefer to be spoken to the same way. Someone sent me an LLM email once and it made me feel just lonely and bored.

To a dad that regularly shows his kid stuff from this era, this level of validation is alarming

Axiom Verge 2 looks cute

Same - how could I turn my back on the system that gave us Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Metal Combat, Mega Man X?

Dude was blowing out the backs of aliens decades before I was alive. If he wants to hit that, that’s between him and Frank.

White haired reality: parenting

I haven’t talked to these people on any regular basis, other than once attending one of their weird little seminars at someone’s house once, so I’ve had little to no experience with how they apply these ideas. I just read the blog posts and mulled it over on my own for a while, and my main takeaways were something like “change your mind incrementally when you get new evidence”.

That said everything you’re saying does ring true, and I’ve been changing my mind about Yudkowsky and his ilk pretty gradually for a number of years. Hearing that he’s in with dudes like SBF have made me ready to fully distance myself from their stuff now that I know what they get up to.

I never heard of applying the ad hoc Bayesian thing to moral stances. I’d only ever applied it to questions of fact. Creepy to think where that leads.

Thanks for chatting with me about this, it’s been helpful.

Less Wrong introduced me to a lot of interesting ideas, like how you can apply Bayesian reasoning to beliefs and making your beliefs “pay rent”, but I’m not in love with the Sam Bankman-Fried of it all.

The exact reason I prefer to avoid things made in China is the same as the reason their stuff is so affordable. Principled stances are rarely convenient.

They’re trying to fire all the talent that made them rich so they can use AI to find out firsthand that creating content takes talent. Meanwhile all the talent will join creative co-ops and replace Hollywood. Big platforms will side with Hollywood and AI and also fail. The fediverse will eat them all. Muhaha I’m being simplistic…