gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No True AI Deployment

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sad if true. I really enjoyed his book The Wages of Destruction which mythbusts a lot of folk knowledge about the Nazis

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Wages-of-Destruction.html

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (30 children)

"Enjoy" this Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktydLowvEg8NxaG4Z/neuroscience-of-human-sexual-attraction-triggers-3

I have but skimmed it, not plumbed its depths for sneers.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

yeah sorry I had the username ("friendlysock") in a first draft then forgot to add it

good riddance to bad rubbish

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Welcome back, and thank you for your hard work.

I dunno if federation works because I don't give a flying toss about it myself, sorry!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

tbf being able to write thousand word long blog posts and using phrases like "good and important" is part of his job description

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

lobste.rs just banned an 11 year old account with almost 5,000 comments and 45k karma for being a transphobic jerk. No muss, no fuss, no apologetic blogpost where the user could defend themselves and rile up the masses.

That's how you do it, people.


edit I have now skimmed the comments where banned use Said can explain himself, and he's using his last efforts to nobly defend himself, thanking his admirers, and generally projecting an image of a man wrongly accused.

j/k he's doubling down on being a dick.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing me to this. I hadn't read the Wolfe story and I appreciated it. I skipped most of the gwern fluff, precisely because while his preferred interpretation is one possible of many, what I like about Wolfe is that the story can be about multiple things beside that.

And the illustration sucks.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Funniest are all the commenters loudly complaining about this decision and threatening/promising to delete their accounts.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

Those examples are the Ingroup. We are the Outgroup.

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