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  • OH that Jack Thompson. Yeah I remember now. Man, on one hand, his actions were at best misguided and at worst totally insane. On the other hand, IMO we wouldn’t know about him if video game people were by any measure calm or reasonable.

  • The one that includes this:

    So I responded in the SL4 (which for the life of me I can't dig up) & went to the trouble of emailing Yudkowski directly, explaining that 1) no I didn't write about your life but 2) if you happen to be in NYC, I'd love it if he'd attend the play. I also attached a copy of the script in the email 7/x

    (which is way more good faith than Yud deserves, btw)

    I thought “yeah, in Yud’s position […]

    Best stop this thinking before you suffer the same levels of delusion of reference and/or grandeur.

  • (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

  • 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

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