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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 31 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I hate when we look at something and think "not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot"

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Must be a theoretical physicist. Has some real "spherical cow" energy.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Not a physicist. I suppose you could call Yudkowsky an anti-AI activist. And/or world-famous fan-fiction author. These would be strange but technically accurate ways to describe him.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

Also as patient zero of Roko's Basilisk!

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

I'd describe him as a person who doesn't know how potatoes work.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 64 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man's intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.

this is why i can't take anything he says seriously.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is he also the dildo behind less wrong?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 10 hours ago
[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 28 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.

I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Roko's Basilisk is real, but only for LW rationalists. living with contradictions in our thinking and using gut feeling rather than obsessively chaining Bayesian priors together protected the rest of us.

seriously, Yudkowsky and others were tormented by the thought of the Basilisk. it's a literal mind virus. just one that requires a very specific host (true believers in Timeless Decision Theory.)

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is a really cool metaphor for fascism. If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded; if you fight it, you are punished but only if you are unsuccessful.

[–] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded

well don't count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

In fairness, I wouldn't count on roko's basilisk either.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It will only be real if you don't make it real, or, uh... Wait a minute...

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 22 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

it is, based on most people who read it, actually very good. the problems start when you analyse it in context with the author. ironically, same thing is true for the source material.

[–] uuldika@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

the context makes it better, for me.

Harry is the protagonist, but he's not a good person. he's a ruthlessly utilitarian sociopath who takes himself far too seriously, but it's entertaining to watch his thought processes. again, much like the author.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i mean, as long as you don't go into it expecting to sympathise with the main character and get immersed in the story, yeah. it's not badly written, it's just bad.

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[–] Impassionata@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

most people have bad taste. hpmor spreads vapid grandiose intellectualism and the people who like it should act more like skulblaka: they were trivially manipulated by a cult leader.

to be fair, though, eliezer yudkowsky is being sardonic in the OP text.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

HPMOR definitely has its share of problems -- a mary sue main character for one. But it was incredibly unique at the time it came out, in particular for taking the world of harry potter down as many pegs as it could with such exacting precision. I think it's one of the all-time greats (of fanfics) personally, but you definitely have to get past how full of himself the author is.

[–] Impassionata@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

the thing is

you don't have to get past how full of himself the author is

the entire cult the author founded is in denial of the fascism

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

If you prefer, there's the "post-rats," which are a spin-off of the same cult and are pretty much identical except every few minutes they make sure to mention how much they don't like yudkowsky anymore.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 146 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.

[–] proper@lemmy.world 61 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop

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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

From a biological standpoint, we don't classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do

Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Does that mean that ketchup is technically a preserve?

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 125 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 40 points 22 hours ago

Something something featherless biped

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 72 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.

[–] WadeTheWizard@fedia.io 71 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 74 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Because their language is made of hate

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 45 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 60 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

LLMs ain't that old. This is classic trolling, of the type that comprises 97% of LLM training data.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

Does this person know nothing.

[–] lautre@jlai.lu 25 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes indeed. But one is a tubor (under the earth, part of the roots) the other is a fruit (develops from the flower).

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 30 points 22 hours ago (6 children)
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago

Yeah it's making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian "all your neighbours are evil" trolling they have now.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 17 points 20 hours ago (5 children)
[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE

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