Evinceo @ Evinceo @awful.systems

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Why are so many people who aren't actually employed doing stem things stem chauvinists?

This schism is heating up. Pretty funny, Yudkowsky has created a monster he couldn't control, just like he imagined... only the monster is AI fandom.

While I love blaming slatescott for things, I do think there's maybe a deeper story to the fascination with addies than slatescott blogging about it once.

A lot of millennials were prescribed stimulants as kids, enough that we have some level of folk knowledge about them. In Adderall Risks he more or less admits to handing them out like candy and he is far from the only (lol ex) psychiatrist to do so.

The article, while clearly endorsing stimulants as a safe nootrooic that everyone should take (and is good for the world now let me munch a few more pills 💊), is actually more of an apologia to convince people who are already using stimulants that no harm will come to them. Sure there's the usual amount of discovering an apple pie from scratch new atheist libertarian bloviating that obscures it, but he does that about everything.*

One funny aspect of his 'stimulants are required for modern work' argument is that he's basically endorsing the social model of disability, though more recently he has decided that expressing ableism to own the libs is more important than being correct.

*Except if he wants to sneak in an idea without you thinking about it. Those will usually be the hardcore nrx ones.

Somehow more confused people are stumbling into awful.systems than ever stumbled into sneerclub.

I'm glad you mention Zvi's piece, it feels like the real insider take on SBF.

I'm arguing the point, not my own conviction.

PCJ -> Programming Circlejerk.

I was wasn't expecting a serious treatment of this very silly idea, my mistake. I submit that it would cause enough difficult to diagnose bugs while just messing with it that you would never get into 'but are the builds reproducible' territory.

I can’t imagine the peer pressure dynamics in such a dating environment to be too healthy.

No imagination required.

This reads like a PCJ comment, bravo. I'll do one for rust:

If an LLM cannot insult the user for having the tremerity to try and compile code, it's not compatible for use with the Rust compiler.

How can these imaginary conversations be so long. I ain't reading all that. Congratulations, or sorry that that happened.

If only rationalist shaming helped reduce overthinking.

It's their fancy way of saying 'I think.'

Should be the header image or sidebar or whatever for this lemmy.

AI turned out to be too hard, let's try aligning microbes.

HN: Just rinse out your mouth with water after eating and no cavities. Dentists hate this one weird trick.

Ok, read their actual pitch. Lmao they think that a one time introduction of a GMO bacteria strain is going to 'just work' because they've also GMO'd it to outcompete other bacteria?

There's a reason we aren't running our cars on yeast-produced gasoline. No matter how awesome your tuned microbe is, it's still subject to mutation and natural selection. If your beneficial changes aren't actually helping it survive, they will not be conserved. And those 'competitive' changes you jacked it up with to make sure it dominates the environment? Well, that might end up horizontally transferred into something you don't like.

About the right amount of 'we humans are smarter than dumb biology' metal-fetishism I'd expect from the folks concerned.

Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.

You seem to have conflated libertarianism with some other philosophy like the Ayn Rand stuff

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Perfect, now it will be safe from getting scrubbed next time SVSS realizes he's let the mask slip.