Lots of drama in this thread. With blackmailing over email and threats. Here is some highlights.
Ends with a jannie y'alling the thread
Edit: Since this post is doing so well, have some bonus peepeesword drama of some other AI ethicist also whining:
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AI "ethicists" are such hacks. Yudkowski demonstrated that any bloviating, self-important jackass can inject themselves into the AI discussion. Now we have a bunch of these pseuds infesting the conversation.
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Yudkowsky is legit the most pathetic dude I can think of
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coolest cult leader ever
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Did he really propose to Aella? They're both out of each other's leagues
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Who’s this Aella broad? Why does she have 200k followers and a bunch of tech guys I follow follow her
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Silicon Valley nouveau riche wanted their own Ghislaine and she fit the bill
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An e-celeb pollster who's famous for having the exact same thoughts as a libright (She posted on /r/politicalcompassmemes and is flared libright) coomer moid so her fanbase can relate, but actually being a woman. She also showered 37 times in 2022 according to her own data
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Ooh the shower girl
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that was a joke you BIPOCcute twink
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lol
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Yeah everyone is real jealous of the weasel harem
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This. Normies can’t understand the thrill of pinning the weasel. Night spent chasing an over amphetamined Caroline around the bean bag forts. Her squealing and gibbering, pouring sweat and on the verge of seizing. Your friends build up an intoxicating, delerious state with Talmudic chantings at the sidelines, hitting the Caroline-toy with brooms if she tries to escape. Sam would be giggling and laughing as the waves of methamphetamine pleasure seem to harmonize with the droning herbrew verses. He runs through the bean bag maze fat and portly, with his viagra powered peepee a driving rod for the weasel. Sweat gushing down his face around his unfocused eyes he laughs and chortles until he gasps “Found you!” . The Mathweasel screeches defensively but Wankman Bankman is upon her in seconds. His peepee thrusting blindly into her flank, leg, stomach and ribs unconcerned about anything but the motion. Eventually serendipity finds her mouth and the Cocktube Rodent is placated, suckling contently on Bankman’s dehydrated peepee.
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same
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Anyone got a TLDR on Yudkowsky? I’ve seen a lot of reasonable (non-AI) tweets over the years but never saw his takes on AI jannying. I followed him cuz hes associated with the Less wrong crowd
Is he really that bad?
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Suppose you are wearing a very expensive suit. You see a child drowning in a pool of dirty water. If you jump in and save the child, your suit will be ruined.
If you ignore the child and sell your suit, then donate the money, you can save many more children.
Yud and his ilk unironically and totally believe you should do the latter. This is what EAcels actually believe.
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Saving that child was actually a performance and the suit is now a one of a kind souvenir. Selling it makes me rich and I spend the money lobbying against abortion rights.
Too slow, EAcels
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Is the child trans?
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He's a FOOMer, and that really says it all. That and dust specks. He really is neurodivergent enough to think morality is just about which number is bigger. And he's smug enough to call everyone else irrational for having a more nuanced point of view.
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Do Yud watchers think he really believes the dust speck thing or is he just saying it to scare up weasel kitty?
Thinking on this it honestly feels more like an argument against utilitarianism than it does an argument for torturing one guy for fifty years to save 3 gorillion people from dust specks.
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If he's a Poe then he's the most committed Poe I've ever seen
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The Yudkowskyites in the AI Safety cult are totally different from the cluster Bs in the AI Ethics cult.
Big Yud and friends think that AI is going to achieve sentience and kill us all. I don't think that this is consistent with a basic understanding of how neural networks work, but whatever.
The AI Ethics movement has a better understanding of the limitations of machine learning, and are mostly just sneeding over the tendency of ungimped AI to chud out and/or nootice. They say that they want AI to be unbiased, but really they just want it to have an extreme leftoid bias.
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Yeah, I realize that. I just think they're all hacks.
They don't think the current stuff will. They think that AI progress will be exponential so we will unknowingly stumble upon an AGI that will catch us by surprise and frick everything up before we even realize it. Their "work" usually relies on a bunch of handwaving, which is why I can't stand it.
What's ironic is they could just point out that any existing biases in the data will be reflected in the AI. However, progressive hubris is so immense these days that they refuse to even leave any room for people to acknowledge inconvenient facts like black people disproportionately committing crime.
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Yudkowsky knows nothing about AI on a technical level either. He just talks about his experience watching Terminator and playing Universal Paperclips in pseudo-academic language. His cult straight up worships an AI which doesn’t exist yet. It’s so frustrating.
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Hey, now, we know AGI is theoretically possible because human intelligence exists! Ignore the fact that the existence of human intelligence only proves that AGI is theoretically achievable via either an artificial copy or a near-perfect emulation of the human brain.
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man if i was that unfrickable id be riding any train (lol) i could get aboard too
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least hypocritical ethicist-cel
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welcome on the streets, motherlover
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Yud is an unironic histrionic cuck. I fricking hate effective altruism.
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which mottizen are you? "Yudkowski"??
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Oh, I misspelled his name.
Are you one of his disciples?
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