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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

it's all fallout from the tariffs yeah

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

still holds - it's still a bunch that needs a label and that's the label

even as TREACLES was right there

(i asked emile, they said it was TESCREAL is very searchable. i mean fine)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

The commenter has been directed elsewhere.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I finished and realised Yudkowsky was the good guy in my story here. Because the other guy is fuckin' Sam.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

yeah, Nvidia is gonna be fine. They make a useful thing that people want and is the best in its field. I've spoken to Nvidia people, they know damn well this is a bubble and they're making hay while the sun shines, but also NVDA has always been volatile as hell and they tend to assume Mr. Market is just on crack again.

The AI bubble takes out tech and thus the S&P 500. US stocks are fucked. Buuuut, I expect to see in about six hours that they're fucked already. Edit: it's coming up 08:00 UTC. Asia and Europe markets open, down about 10%. Yyyyeeeahhhh boyeeeeeeeeee

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

In the late 2000s, rationalists were squarely in the middle of transhumanism. They were into the Singularity, but also the cryonics and a whole pile of stuff they got from the Extropians. It was very much the thing.

These days they're most interested in Effective Altruism (loudly -the label at least) and race science (used to be quiet, now a bit louder). I hardly ever hear them even mention transhumanism as it was back then.

Did rationalists abandon transhumanism?

Is it just me? What happened?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

now writing up for pivot. this is fucking inane.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I did two Intelligence Squared debates in the UK. The best bit was I got paid. The second best was the people running it were actually very nice and quite competent. Recommend to all.

As for content, the first one featured the guy behind Liberland, so lol

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Curtis Yarvin being into lizards is the most endearing thing I've ever heard about him

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

so I previously predicted the AI bubble would pop on Trump's watch and crash the stock market. Never did I envision Trump doing it to himself, in a manner so stupid I'm not sure anyone anticipated it.

I'm wondering what this does to the AI bubble. I think the bubble is led by trillions of dollars desperate for lottery-sized returns. There's so much family, pension and sovereign wealth money that can't get returns on sane investments that they're left only with insane ones.

This is not about tech at all. If they thought they could do a tech bubble with ELIZA chatbots, we'd have number power plants being restarted to power hyperscale data centres running billions of copies of ELIZA.

What would it take for this crash to affect the AI bubble materially?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

By the same fuckin people! A perfect Pivot to AI

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

multiverse hype

???

 

"the AI thread in our society now is nothing more or less than a demand by the wealthy creators of it for submission. It's a naked show of force by the powerful and stupid: you will use this tool, and you will like it."

 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

last week's thread

 

a place for it

 

this is very self-serving ass covering from the rationalist sphere

there's a glaring hole in it: what precisely the break was between Ziz and her friends and the rest of the rationals. this isn't detailed.

xcancel: https://xcancel.com/aella_girl/status/1884481375690223684

aella's document dump: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1z21U_q1tESO61iL35ertsIjZYczJrHpQ

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