Architeuthis

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

the father of quantum computing agrees

And then you read the article and he is basically just saying big if true.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh sure, postgrads grading and even substitute teaching occasionally is very normal here too (edit: Greece)

For those who didn't read the article, the culprit is a Massachusetts company called Cognia that's apparently doing essay grading to the tune of $36.5M yearly revenue, which, what?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The essays being scored by a contractor, is that just normal weird or also USA weird?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

She's popped up once or twice, owing to how she got on a lot of normal people's feeds as a science influencer before she couldn't contain the crank any longer.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, at least they got to find out exactly how far extreme mental discipline (and space psychedelics) could take you. You got mentats, truth sayers, suk doctors and so on and so forth. Not that the vast majority of the population ever got to see any benefit from them, because hey, feudalism, and they themselves were basically luxury slaves to the Great Houses, but it's not nothing I guess.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

I feel this used to get linked a lot when yud came up.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Please don't bother with the KJA/BH Dune books, they are incredibly shit. It's basically Dune fanfiction where the gimmick is everyone is brain damaged, especially the authors.

And even if you are into that, if you read the prequels first they will retroactively ruin the original books by giving up plot reveals for fanservice, or because they don't understand that character development is a thing, so you get people behaving like a lot of things that don't happen for several books are a given.

KJA is such a hack's hack it's unbelievable that he's flown under the radar the way he has, probably because he's made a career out of leeching on existing ips, before Dune it was starwars, x-files and stracraft, at least.

He sucks, and very consistently so. People should be writing Renowned author Dan Brown pieces about him.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The author certainly wants you to know that finding yourself as the head of a revolutionary movement means very little with regards to your abilities to steer it, but I don't remember.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That he cites as if it were a philosophy paper, to non-rationalists.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, from what I can tell second hand dath ilan world building definitely skews towards it doesn't count as totalitarianism if the enforced orthodoxy is in line with my Obviously Objectively Correct and Overdetermined opinions.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I can smell the 'rape (play) is the best kind of sex actually' from over here.

 

edited to add tl;dr: Siskind seems ticked off because recent papers on the genetics of schizophrenia are increasingly pointing out that at current miniscule levels of prevalence, even with the commonly accepted 80% heritability, actually developing the disorder is all but impossible unless at least some of the environmental factors are also in play. This is understandably very worrisome, since it indicates that even high heritability issues might be solvable without immediately employing eugenics.

Also notable because I don't think it's very often that eugenics grievances breach the surface in such an obvious way in a public siskind post, including the claim that the whole thing is just HBD denialists spreading FUD:

People really hate the finding that most diseases are substantially (often primarily) genetic. There’s a whole toolbox that people in denial about this use to sow doubt. Usually it involves misunderstanding polygenicity/omnigenicity, or confusing GWAS’ current inability to detect a gene with the gene not existing. I hope most people are already wise to these tactics.

 

... while at the same time not really worth worrying about so we should be concentrating on unnamed alleged mid term risks.

EY tweets are probably the lowest effort sneerclub content possible but the birdsite threw this to my face this morning so it's only fair you suffer too. Transcript follows:

Andrew Ng wrote:

In AI, the ratio of attention on hypothetical, future, forms of harm to actual, current, realized forms of harm seems out of whack.

Many of the hypothetical forms of harm, like AI "taking over", are based on highly questionable hypotheses about what technology that does not currently exist might do.

Every field should examine both future and current problems. But is there any other engineering discipline where this much attention is on hypothetical problems rather than actual problems?

EY replied:

I think when the near-term harm is massive numbers of young men and women dropping out of the human dating market, and the mid-term harm is the utter extermination of humanity, it makes sense to focus on policies motivated by preventing mid-term harm, if there's even a trade-off.

 

Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

 

original is here, but you aren't missing any context, that's the twit.

I could go on and on about the failings of Shakespear... but really I shouldn't need to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. About half the people born since 1600 have been born in the past 100 years, but it gets much worse that that. When Shakespear wrote almost all Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate -- probably as low as ten million people. By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable.

edited to add this seems to be an excerpt from the fawning book the big short/moneyball guy wrote about him that was recently released.

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