https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT5MX8jK9tHiBM5NK/re-taste

A random walk, in retrospect, looks like like directional movement at a speed of √n.

No it doesn’t, you fools, you absolute rubes

If you consider your normative values to be true, then everything looks like progress.

wat

Scott Alexander was a founding though-leader behind the Lightcone salon.

Your future region of the spacetime diagram is inside a locker, nerd

https://xcancel.com/tsarnick/status/1882927003508359242

Eliezer Yudkowsky says he would like to be a post-human some day, but the way to get there is by experimenting on augmenting biological intelligence through adult gene therapy targeting the human brain with suicide volunteers who may end up schizophrenic rather than taking a “leap of death” into unconstrained AI development

(found via flipping through LW for sneerable posts/comments)

A relevant earlier thread

And I’m sure that your snide remark will both tell them what to simplify and explain how to do so.

Enjoy your free trip to the egress.

Ick.

I mean, no, not really? “New AI is not as energy-efficient as first advertised” is just a special case of “AI is not as advertised”, i.e., the least surprising turn of events.

It’s true: The sneerclub mod interface is a replica of the mummification machine from Young Sherlock Holmes, and when we ban people, we actually drown them in wax.

It only works with the chanting, of course.

Given the … calibre of thinking on display in his other tweets (xharts?), I wouldn’t be surprised if he just typed “Zizians” into Reddit’s search box; /r/sneerclub currently comes up a few times near the top of results there.

second warning: an xcancel search for “zizians” turns up so much transphobia that you’ll feel like it’s a late night on the Nebuchadnezzar and Tank accidentally loaded your brain with JK Rowling instead of kung fu.

Here’s one that an xcancel search turned up (warning: is in Andy Ngo’s replies)

Link to previous thread so it’s less likely to get lost

Demonstrating once again that Twitter is the damp locker-room floor of ideas.

Do the Zizians fit in the “rationalist/EA/risk community”? Gosh and golly gee.

Yuddites and Zizians are a better example of the “narcissism of small differences” than any of the ones that Siskind propped up.

From the comments:

Sounds like it could be the plot of a mystery novel akin to JK Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series.

The author is very much that type of guy:

Florida Man. Individualist. Free minds and free markets. Distrustful of ideologies, whether left or right.

Kelsey Piper bluechecks thusly:

James Damore was egregiously wronged.

I mean, maybe? But the amount of trust I put in a description from “GeekWire” written by “an investor at Madrona Venture Group and a former leader at Amazon Web Services” who uncritically declares that spicy autocomplete “achieved strong reasoning capabilities” is … appropriately small.

I’ve previously discussed the concept of model collapse, and how feeding synthetic data (training data created by an AI, rather than a human) to an AI model can end up teaching it bad habits, but it seems that DeepSeek succeeded in training its models using generative data, but specifically for subjects (to quote GeekWire’s Jon Turow) “…like mathematics where correctness is unambiguous,”

That sound you hear is me pressing F to doubt. Checking the correctness of mathematics written as prose interspersed with equations is, shall we say, not easy to automate.

Wait, the splinter group from the cult whose leader wants to bomb datacenters might be violent?

I mean, “downvotes are proof that the commies are out to get me” is an occasion not just to touch grass, but to faceplant into an open field of wildflowers.

Enjoy your trip to the egress.