They need the rationalist musical cannons for the upcoming performance of the Rationalist 1812 Overture
If twitter did get put on the blockchain after Elon bought it, it really would be "X on blockchain"... ba dum tshh
"You’ll also soon be able to test multimodal Meta AI on our Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses."
Now this is interesting. I've been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.
Instead, everyone will have their own AI assistant, which you'll interact with naturally the same way as you interact with other people. Need something visual? Just ask for the latest stock graph for MSFT for example.
God, I hope not. Maybe it's just me, but this sounds insanely annoying? It kind of reminds me of the objection I've seen to the metaverse, where it's actually a more inefficient way to do stuff, so it doesn't make sense to imagine it replacing the text-based internet.
Like, I'm not even a fan of smartphones these days, but surely in a world where you could only access information via yelling at your smart glasses, the invention people would be crying out for would be a way to use it silently with your hands, with a screen you could use to easily show it to other people...?
"This technology is coming whether we like it or not, so we're going to make sure that we get it right," Adams said in a statement.
??? Who is "we" here. Is the technology going to be developed by aliens who beam it down to earth? Is a rogue AI developing self-driving cars for the purposes of annoying humanity into submission? Are they springing forth from the head of Zeus?
Seriously, can we go back to the days when tech boosters at least pretended technology was being developed by people to improve other people's lives? Now it seems like they just go "sucks to suck, idiots! this is the future now, get with it, grandpa!" and skateboard away into the sunset leaving everyone else to clean up their mess...
He should've stuck with it
each of us has a strong ethical obligation to live so as to alleviate the suffering of those less fortunate than ourselves
Sounds like he did a bad job at living up to those principles then, huh?
Also is it just me or is this not actually a very good description of utilitarian beliefs lol
And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?
Oh, of course it's about this. Is it ever not about this with Thiel?
of all the ways we’ve tried so far, Substack is working the best.
The sheer arrogance of this quote is really something to behold. It's "working the best" by what metric, exactly, sir? And who's the "we" that have tried various ways so far, because it's certainly not 'people on the internet,' many of whom have developed ways of dealing with Nazis which are significantly more effective than the substack method of 'literally give them money to use our platform'
why are the comments on this post such a disaster. who are these people
I actually personally happen to think it's bad when people die but you do you weird lesswrong guy
couple things:
- in the article it turns out he isn't even actually generating the images, he just created 187 AI images and it rotates through them
- one of the most insane things about our society right now has to be that someone can come out and say "the goal is to create the most addicting thing" and expect praise for it :/
- a woman made a version with men, "FriendOrFoeAI", and the twitter replies (and her replies to them) are amazing
200fifty
joined 1 year ago
My main thought reading through this whole thing was like, "okay, in a world where the rationalists weren't closely tied to the neoreactionaries, and the effective altruists weren't known by the public mostly for whitewashing the image of a guy who stole a bunch of people's money, and libertarians and right-wingers were supported by the mainstream consensus, I guess David Gerard would be pretty bad for saying those things about them. Buuuut..."