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E: sorry slight spoilers for old and popular science fiction series. (You'd think they would have picked some more positive but less well known transhumanist science fiction books with nice societies, or pick specifics they liked but nope).

The Foundation is a horrible place to live, it is a frontier city created under false pretenses where you live under constant threat of a crisis, manipulated from afar by the second foundation, while 'Rome' falls apart around them. Billions die.

Hyperion is a horrible place to live, the main hegemonic force is a hypercolonialist empire that destroys all variety, kills the dolphins, is secretly run by AIs who abuse humanity, power everything by destroying the energy that gives us love, and morph into a authoritarian theocracy secretly run by AIs who are now at war with the beings in the love dimension. Also, billions die when the first empire falls.

Ringworld is ... not a book series I remember much from, read it when I was young, might be ok might not be.

Also all these worlds also have a big magical element in it, dune with all the spice stuff, hyperion with the love dimension, foundation with the psi powers and magical prediction powers. And they are setups for the stories conflicts (and well, stories).

It is all a bit like saying you want Singularity skies Festival arrive without reading up on what happens afterwards. Helps if you actually read books not skim through them in 2 hours.

E: I need to make a confession, this guy changed my mind on agentic LLMs. They should use them, it will improve their reading comprehension. (they should also add pronouns, if they don't want to be called they)

I want my kids to be science experiments as there is no other way an ethics board would approve this kind.

"Yes," chatGPT whispered gently ASMR style, "you should but that cryptocoin it is a good investment". And thus the aliens sectioned off the Sol solar system forever.

Using a death for critihype jesus fuck

It is a bit like alien vs predator. Whoever wins, we lose. (And even that is owned by disney).

Uni is also a good place to learn to fail. A uni run startup imitation place can ensure both problems (guided by profs if needed) and teach people how to do better, without being in the pockets of VCs also better hours, and parties.

Nostalgia has a lowkey reactionary impulse part(see also why those right wing reactionary gamer streamers who do ten hour reactive criticize a movie streams have their backgrounds filled with consumer nerd media toys (and almost never books)) and fear of change is also a part of conservatism. 'Engineering minds' who think they can solve things, and have a bit more rigid thinking also tend to be attracted to more extremist ideologies (which usually seems to have more rigid rules and lesser exceptions), which also leads back to the problem where people like this are bad at not realizing their minds are not typical (I can easily use a console so everyone else can and should). So it makes sense to me. Not sure if the ui thing is elitism or just a strong desire to create and patrol the borders of an ingroup. (But isnt that just what elitism is?)

Right, yeah i just recall that for a high enough bit of towers the amount of steps needed to solve it rises quickly. The story, "Now Inhale", by Eric Frank Russell, uses 64 discs. Fun story.

Min steps is 2 to the power the number of disks minus 1.

Programming a system that solves it was a programming excersize for me a long time ago. Those are my stronger memories of it

Latter test fails if they write a specific bit of code to put out the 'llms fail the river crossing' fire btw. Still a good test.

Sorry what is the link between bioware and towers of hanoi? (I do know about the old "one final game before your execution" science fiction story).

I have not looked at a video just images but this looks like it is unreadable outside. Which brings up an interesting failure of testing, that they never left the building with the sun out.

But the Ratspace doesn't just expect them to actually do things, but also self improve. Which is another step above just human level intelligence, it also means that self improvement is possible (and on the highest level of nuttyness, unbound), a thing we have not even seen if it is possible. And it certainly doesn't seem to be, as the lengths between a newer better version of chatGPT seems to be increasing (an interface around it doesn't count). So imho due to chatgpt/LLMs and the lack of fast improvements we have seen recently (some even say performance has decreased, so we are not even getting incremental innovations), means that the 'could lead to AGI-foom' possibility space has actually shrunk, as LLMs will not take us there. And everything including the kitchen sink has been thrown at the idea. To use some AI-weirdo lingo: With the decels not in play(), why are the accels not delivering?

: And lets face it, on the fronts that matter, we have lost the battle so far.

E: full disclosure I have not read Zitrons article, they are a bit long at times, look at it, you could read 1/4th of a SSC article in the same time.

Emil Kirkegaard

Drink!

0,0 position, to the left of the makeupless guy above the engineering bit.

Would be best if he treated Musk like how they treated the four icc judges. Sanction Musk. (I heard this has basically destroyed the ICCs ability to do things btw)

Congrats!

Robot lady? What about the round robot. I asked for robot bears, and I got them.

Think you are right, and tbh I didn't read this as a kink thing but more some weird glorifying Aella as some sort of important cult leader thing (and misread it and assumed it had to do with the flowchart event, and not this (which I should have noticed was wrong as there were less than 100 people involved in that, for which a 'I was nr 100' is quite odd to me (and fits into the whole cultleader vibe))). A reason why I only focused on the guy myself.

And you are totally correct that people sneer on Aella way to much just because she is {a woman, sex worker, a bit strange, unapologetic about being a sex worker, has sex the wrong way, {more weird reasons unrelated to her being part of the 'we should do eugenics!' crowd}} (pick any that apply). And have mentioned this before in other places. (oddly enough this caused somebody on bsky to just go full anti sex worker, so that was an easy block at least). But yes you are right to call us out on this.

Yeah it fits a pattern, half of starship troopers is about how other societies had ideals not based on mathematical truths but theirs is (no proof is ever shown). Another reason why I think the book reads so much better as a parody. The Eternal Science of Marxism, but now for Warrior Libertarians (who cannot even fight a proper war, see the whole technodogs thing).