gerikson @ gerikson @awful.systems

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It's still on the front page, almost 300 comments. Haven't time to review them all but doesn't look like the promptfondlers have the upper hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

Found on HN:

[Working with AI is] An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

25 upvotes, no comments yet..

oh god has he spawned????

I'm thinking they hired Jar-Jar Binks to the team.

"God I wish I was an AI so i didn't have to do this"

Shorter Moldbug: I am smarter than the framers of the US Constitution. Also, those traitors were wrong.

The comments are ... "a hoot"

I would bet pretty hard on option #3. The older the parents are at the time of conception, the lower the quality of their gametes, which can translate into various negative health and cognitive effects on the child.

combines ageism, ableism ,and homophobia into one neat package

Obligatory Colm Tóibín: Among the Flutterers

LW: "being a younger brother makes you gay, the Catholic hierarchy is full of younger brothers, ergo 80% of the Vatican is gay"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybwqL9HiXE8XeauPK/how-gay-is-the-vatican

I used to work in a contact center adjacent industry. There are essentially no margins in the business. I really fail to see what value CapG can extract from companies like Teleperformance who are already pared down to the bone.

It's possible that the most popular fora for discussions of the other topics were drowned out by AI doomerism and the people who are interested in them simply left.

Kokotajlo is a new name to me. What's his background? Prolific LW poster?

fondled his lizard

I'm choosing to interpret that in the most euphemistically way possible

The preview image is ... a choice

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TpSFoqoG2M5MAAesg/ai-2027-what-superintelligence-looks-like-1?commentId=9ckeRErTgPdGjKbXf

The obvious effort is to mark each temporal milestone, then post snarkily as each is missed

LW commenter - electing a crazy person as POTUS is a competitve advantage, actually

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=cZADfF3wbZqbaCFCB

A markov chain is smarter than the current POTUS.

as the one person who can buy all the Paradox games + all the DLC

LOL

I did once as the Dutch, defeating the US

Niew New Amsterdam

Intelligence Time Cubed now, that's the real deal.

To be scrupulously fair there were multiple banners on LW announcing that prices would rise unless locked in early. NFC what they started at though, maybe $400?

Personally you would have to pay me $5,500 + room and board to force me to attend.