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The Yude iabieds

(Eliezer used a new penname for the story).

Stop trying to make dath ilan happen, Yud.

HJPEV

I didn’t what this meant initially. “HJP” pointed me toward “harry james potter” but I couldn’t figure out “EV,” so ofc my gutter brain decided this was “Handjob Penis Envy Vagina”. But no, it’s just “HJP Evans Verres”, Verres being HJPEV’s adopted dad.

so don’t give Eliezer too much credit

He has a credit score of 250 from this (imagine me holding two thumbs up at myself) ratings agency.

I don’t know how he came up with the name

Yeah his naming is wack. I’m guessing that Yud went with “Verres” for HJP’s nonbiodad because it’s close to “veritas”, the latin word for truth. But searching “verres” gives the latin word for boar, lol. And also Gaius Verres, a notoriously bad magistrate according to wikipedia.

Thanks for the lore, and sorry that you had to ingest all that at some point.

Like a lot of sci-fi that I will comment on without having read, that sounds like a Dune ripoff (that I also have not read). Except, rather than "ok we tried the whole AI thing and it turned out bad", Yud is saying "my world is smarter because they predicted AI would be bad, so they just didn't try it, neener neener neener!"

Also, iterating on the name origins of "dath ilan," as I've said before, it's an anagram of Thailand. But I have a new hypothesis. It's formed from "Death Island" minus the letters "ESD". What could this mean?!?!?! Electrostatic discharge? "Eek, Small Dragon?" "Eliezer Sudden Death?" The abyss pondering continues...

did you hear about Yudoslavia? They have this Eight GPU policy, if a household is about to have another GPU and they find it can’t run Crysis at max settings at 60fps, they leave it outside for the wolves. But this might just be Yudophobic propaganda

As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with eight wives…

It was nice to see the call out that doomers and accelerationists are two sides of the same coin and both serving the interests of the LLM makers.

Yeah consensus is a helluva drug. Good to know the world outside of the sneerosphere is catching on to critihype

Scales remain firmly unfalling from eyes I’d bet.

Well, I have had some of their hot sauces before and can confirm that they are not bad to pretty good, and are at a good gift sort of price point (if you live in the US).

Hmm, it’s still on the funny side of graph for me. I think it could go on for at least another week.

this is cartoonish. Like, Dilbert had “elbonia” for whatever reason, did scott adams predict this?? (fuck scott adams ofc)

All is forgiven. Hot Ones is an internet interview show. Its core premise is that the host and interviewee conduct their interview while eating increasingly spicier chicken wings. As with any interview platform, it's a common stop for public figures to hit up, especially on PR tours.

The show has a reputation for researching its guests well and asking insightful/deep questions. There's also an element to it where, for some guests, as they experience spicier wings, they are unable to keep up whatever facade or persona they usually keep up in interviews.

I wasn't making any profound commentary; I want to see Yud in pain while trying to explain alignment.

If Yud and Soares are on a book tour I want them to go on hot ones