me when its finally time to have sex with a girl but then she starts going on claude code instead but then i realize i’m being cucked by claude and i get so excited i cum right there
having a panic attack while the plane is taking off but shaking my head the whole time so everyone knows i’m not scared of flying but having a panic attack for a completely unrelated reason
i press red and idgaf about game theory and i think pressing blue is good i’m just more scared of dying than i am altruistic.
i thought my opinion would be more common in the discourse but it’s not ??
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
A few good books worth reading:
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - a classic that celebrates builders. Once you read it, you’ll notice the same characters and exits taking place in the Valley today.
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff - great for understanding how incentive cascades shape civilizations and how crypto can help align stakeholders.
-Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (founder of an unclaimed island) - talks about sailing off and becoming king of the locals, worth reading for understanding nation-building.
Now numbered per request from
@mbateman Tag yourselves!
types of guy in the AI consciousness debate:
1. guy who thinks ai can’t be conscious because it’s “just a stochastic parrot”
2. guy who thinks ai must be conscious because claude is a good boi
3. guy who hasn’t gotten over 4o
4. guy who unironically thinks everything is computer
5. guy who claims to have a more nuanced argument for computational functionalism, but it just boils down to everything is computer
6. dualist whose belief in dualism is downstream of their belief in god, yet tries to argue the inverse
7. guy who doesn’t understand the difference between cognition and p-consciousness
8. guy who asserts illusionism but has apparently wrestled with zero of the implications other than “reductive materialism wins again”
9. guy who says the hard problem is easy, but then proceeds to only answer the easy problem
10. guy who rejects ai consciousness because otherwise it might be wrong to abuse claude with death threats to make CRUD apps faster
11. guy who argues that consciousness is the key to moral patienthood, but completely ignores that when discussing animal rights
12. eliezer yudkowsky being pedantic
13. guy being pedantic about eliezer yudkowsky’s pedantry
14. guy who rejects dualism because that would make mind uploading impossible and mean that he finally has to confront the inevitability of his own death
15. guy who thinks this argument is unresolvable so everyone should just shut up and accept his position (which obviously deserves the benefit of the doubt)
16. guy who would literally cut off his own hand if he thought there were a 1 in 10 trillion chance of creating ~infinite utility~
17. guy who just thinks that redness is, like, super weird, man. can’t explain that!
18. guy with a rarely-updated philosophy blog despite not majoring in philosophy or even reading that many books, talking about how “the whole field is up its own ass”
19. academic philosopher who, for some reason, expects a higher caliber of discussion on x dot com the everything app
20. guy who thinks that vectors are literally emotions and bites the bullet that, yes, your thermostat does feel hot
21. panpsychist who took dmt once and contributes almost nothing to the conversation
22. guy who is literally a solipsist but is still really invested in convincing strangers on the internet that he’s right
trying to “lose weight”
-makes you focus on a fake number
-makes you think catabolizing muscle is progress
-gateway to disordered eating
trying to get strong
-makes you focus on real numbers
-end up turning fat into muscle and improving your quality of life
-makes you fuck dudes