Erik

Against AI alignment//Dark tech bro//AI whisperer

[Erik @ern1337]

I keep saying this, there’s no bigger midwit flag than having books in the backround during a video call

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

AI researcher Nate Soares (@So8res) describes how he talked to people in the industry about the threat from superintelligence for a decade.

He took it to politicians. They were like: "That's crazy. We shouldn't allow that to happen."

It's not hard to grasp that racing to build something vastly smarter than humans that we don't understand or control might go really badly. People get it, if you explain the problem.

Source: @romanyam's podcast

[Erik @ern1337]

@Babygravy9 These political views are a very effective mating strategy

[Erik @ern1337]

@ArtemisConsort “Then Peter began to speak: ‘I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.’”

I don't understand why people are so surprised, it's in that book everyone is obsessed with

[Erik @ern1337]

Yeah, let’s run a study to confirm if laws of thermodynamics are correct

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

We now have meta-analytic confirmation:

Adding exercise on top of caloric restriction leads to more weight loss.

It also leads to better weight loss, with less of the weight lost as lean mass, and more of it lost as fat mass.

[Erik @ern1337]

@ArtemisConsort I feel like the whole capitalism vs socialism debate is so outdated

We live in a miraculous technological abundance age, we can have both free food and housing at a very low tax rate

But not in democracy obviously

[Erik @ern1337]

I wouldn't get any closer to that sea

Poseidon might not have mercy next time

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Pope Leo XIV's zucchetto blew off his head on Saturday while he was visiting Lampedusa’s Favaloro Pier to dedicate a plaque to the late Pope Francis.

An aide handed him a new one to put on since the other had gone into the ocean.

The pontiff's visit paid tribute to migrants who died trying to reach Europe, as the pier is a symbolic landing point for migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

[Erik @ern1337]

@AbudBakri It's your body doing you a favour by making it easier to go through the immigration

[Erik @ern1337]

@ArtemisConsort Shouldn't it be the opposite?

First, say what they want to hear, and they tell them what they need to hear

[Erik @ern1337]

@TWarPhilosopher This is gonna be their polycule foundation myth

[Erik @ern1337]

When you try to atheistmax but end up being a suicidal Christian sect

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇩🇪German feminist Verena Brunschweiger promotes the slogan "My lineage ends with me."

She calls on White people not to have children, claiming that Western pro-natalists only want to "control women, and keep refugees out."

Brunschweiger says Europeans are responsible for poor living conditions in Africa:

"So I would take all immigrants and refugees in because we ruined the world, so to speak.

We produce climate change, which makes life in Africa, for instance, miserable and horrible. So of course, why not invite [them] if they want to come?"

[Erik @ern1337]

@JebraFaushay Why is he punching like a girl

[Erik @ern1337]

It's crazy how bad most of the doctors are

[Erik @ern1337]

People will find a victim angle about anything these days

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Having an IQ over 130 is a curse and a blessing

[Erik @ern1337]

@escapefrommelos Because the societal pressure doesn't allow them to grow up

So they are attracted to these innocent child-like features

[Erik @ern1337]

@ArtemisConsort For those of us who deeply believe existence to be an aesthetic phenomenon, Dario represents the greatest danger to life itself

[Erik @ern1337]

@t_a_stephens @ArtemisConsort More important than the origins of the western political system, law, science, engineering, warfare?

[Erik @ern1337]

@spandrell4 It can be cured the same way feminism is cured: with a flat tire

[Erik @ern1337]

Starting from a world where Europe is almost entirely white and Christian, we arrive at this point in the majority of simulations we run

White openness + teachings of Jesus, can't end well in the long term, especially with the abundance of resources

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

Starting from a world where Europe is almost all White Christian, if you asked the question “should a bunch of Muslims live in Europe?” it seems obvious the answer is no, and I don’t see why it changes just because traitors moved a bunch of them in already.

[Erik @ern1337]

@ArtemisConsort And we’ll end up with another utilitarian mutation like EA

Or another attempt to engineer and systemize existence