Soyweiser

Yeah that reads as a cry for help. (But I doubt it is, he prob just feels like he is onto something with a righteous/spiritual feeling.)

And well, he could even be onto something, he could become quite popular, peterson had the same sort of feeling (it is in the foreword of one of his books) and look how big he got. He certainly got more followers than I have. ;)

Well there is something to be said for just trying to make a new system yourself, as a hobby/thought experiment. So I'm not totally opposed to creating something that already exists. It is just weird he thinks he has something new and shining and good here, and not babbies first attempt at creating a voting system. (insert 'wow things are complicated' xkcd here).

Him not realizing (or not caring) about him being completely unoriginal while thinking he is hot shit is funny though. Shit having a certain amount of sycophants must suck so much, as it removes any ability to truly judge if you are being dumb or not, as there will always be a revolving door of those who kiss your ass.

yes, i actually never learned how to capitalize properly, they told me to use capslock and shift, but that makes all the letters come out small still. thanks chatgpt.

Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

Hell yeah!

I'm gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.

Not really a sneer, but just a random thought on the power cost of AI. We are prob under counting the costs of it if we just look at the datacenter power they themselve use, we should also think about all the added costs of the constant scraping of all the sites, which at least for some sites is adding up. For example (And here there is also the added cost of the people needing to look into the slowdown, and all the users of the site who lose time due to the slowdown).

Easy, the cables go into the space elevator. Why do you all have to be so negative, don't you have any vision for the future?

You joke, but my startup is actually moving forward on this concept. We already made a prototype time travel machine which while only being able to travel forward does so at a promising stable speed (1). The advances we made have been described by the people on our team with theoretical degrees in physics as simply astonishing, and awe-inspiring. We are now in an attempt to raise money in a series B financing round, and our IPO is looking to be record breaking. Leave the past behind and look forward to the future, invest in our timetravel company xButterfly.

I'm just amused that their scaling program doesn't scale properly. Due to the hungry hungry AI needing more and more data.

'I'm going to invent a new government system!'

'New system or just monarchy with extra steps?'

E: "I could eat a bowl full of paper and vomit a better electoral system than that." and "If you have an alignment plan I can't shoot down in 120 seconds, let's hear it.", Yudkowsky's overestimation of his own abilities is high this week.

Thankfully I have never tried to mobile his site, because those kinds of UI things really annoy the shit out of me. (Same with so many sites, including youtube for fucks sake, breaking the back button on mobile (Same is also happening more and more on desktop btw), just basic stuff we are all throwing away).

What finally got me to post this here was somebody on bsky saying "'What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?'

most tech “businesses” don’t make money. they can’t figure out what people actually will pay for, but they get huge wads of cash to fuck around with until they make something useful or threatening enough that a megacorps buy them" and "i consider working at a startup a negative signal for success in actual business (aka selling things for a profit)"

Which reminded me of this founder mode post. Which also reminded me of how the founder moders have even stranger priorities than the manager moders (Who often also just are too much number must go up). Paul just saying 'we need more bullshit artists' while running a bullshit artist factory is quite something. (Also, that Musk proofread the article is just the cherry on top).

Old 'Sparkling Elites'

New 'Founder Mode'