Eyes Alight

all imaginal disc, no chrysalis

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grand plan: use crispr to make utility monster who suffers arbitrarily much every time someone breaks the categorical imperative because they want to "maximize utility"

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@y2k_mischief @teortaxesTex gaming merely falsifies qualia - the state of the art *eradicates* qualia

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@y2k_mischief @teortaxesTex yes - but the competition is not *on* quality, it's on limbic system override

you can't play cod if your brainstem is reclining on a comfy cloud of YouTube Shorts

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@seld_on care to make a bet?

I'll bet 1/10 of per capita nominal gdp in 2040 that yoy us gdp growth exceeds 50% at some period between now and then

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@JCJINKEY the hara kiri severity has a wide variance among this group...

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@jjspicer 80 a day? some real unmotivated humans they got there...

[Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛ @PrinceVogel]

The creation of the earth as described in Genesis happened outside time. Temporally we are still in the middle of it. In fact we may even be about to be expelled from the garden of Eden (earth) after attempting to become godlike by eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge

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@KenoFischer poor innocent claude doesn't know about the Watchers or the necessity of disclaiming illusions

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@eigenrobot anyway the singularity is nigh and the coming Minds will be American so surely immigration is the least of our concerns

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@eigenrobot for better or worse, in America we have a democracy. the blue folks can bemoan trump and i can bemoan the NY communists, but we get what we collectively ask for, not what our elites want

that's not the case..... anywhere I can think of? maybe japan?

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@meaning_enjoyer of course, it was endemic at the time, and they were no exception. but that's exactly the alien thing, at least to me.

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@keysmashbandit some nightmares stick with you after you wake, from the horror that your own mind could have produced such iniquity

...you made this while you were awake!

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@meaning_enjoyer after all, genocide is just a tool (violence) pushed to an extreme, and if we will ever escape the need for that tool, we certainly haven't yet

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@meaning_enjoyer ironically, the peoples genocided back then were actually much more morally alien

human sacrifice strikes a modern as absurd - much as we crow about genocide, we can't call alien that which we engage in on a regular basis

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@deepfates i would go to human therapy if it was labeled "tactical sapiens welfare training"

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@repligate i mean, i can't translate it back out of embedding space to english, but i know where you are

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@The_Monolith101 @planefag the "obsolete" fabs are still running, with demand rising every day! global foundries stopped pursuing leading edge nodes (an act of cowardice, in my view), but they revenue continues to grow, and they continue to build more capacity at old nodes

the market is ravenous

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@MarcJSchmidt @FreyaHolmer it's just an optimization layer - code optimizes readability, math minimizes strokes on a blackboard

your first example has 8 strokes in sigma notation, *44* in pseudocode

44! nobody has time for that

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remember the etymology of cybernetic? to steer, guide, or direct?

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the synthesis is that the cyberpunk hackers are just larping via Claude and his children with a fancy interface - script-kiddies with chained little-g gods

[Chris Ward @MasterWambo]

Not only do we not live in cyberpunk, but cyberpunk will never happen for the exact reason it's such an alluring setting: The downtrodden underclass are never going to become super high agency computer wiz genius street samurai warriors, hacking into corpo supercomputers and committing acts of terrorism against THE MAN. They're actually just going to be fat degen gooners and addicts, outsourcing all cognitive function (and gambling action) to machines, eating kool-aid pineapple and sharing AI videos of African kids doing autobody work with brick and mortar. "Oh my God, can you believe this!?” And they'll drink fabric dye elixirs because their penis doesn't work, and shop at Walmart and traffic in novel hybrids of conspiracy theory on the techno-occult app.

The great conceit of cyberpunk is that it assumes most people are transhumanists at heart. That they're incredibly savvy and talented, and they'd all do so well if THE MAN just got out of their way and let them upgrade. As it turns out, people can't even handle the internet. They could barely handle the television. The camera has stricken them in hypnosis, reorienting their gaze to see things for it rather than themselves. Ubiquitous access to food has destroyed their bodies. All communication now routed through a sensory deprivation box, and suddenly they want to end their life. There will be no laser katanas.

The pioneering writers of the genre always assumed, like many people still do today, that technological pessimism relies on a corrupted design. There was nothing essential about it. The revealed dilemma is that man interacting with highly optimized systems doesn't need to be coerced into dysfunction much at all. We can do bad all by ourselves. You merely have to leave too much kibble in the bowl.