I find it really funny how after he gets booed he says, “If you don’t care about science, that’s okay, because AI is going to touch everything else as well. Whatever path you choose, AI will become part of how work is done.” Yeah, if you’re worried that AI is only going to fuck up science, don’t worry, it’s going to fuck up everything else as well. Was he trying to stick to a (terrible) script, or is he genuinely this incapable of reading a room?

“When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on.” No, my mom taught me about stranger danger. I know what to do when a sketchy old man named Eric Schmidt pulls up with a rocket ship that says FREE ICE CREAM.

“The rocket ship is here. Let me give you some advice. First, find a way to say yes. Listen.” Thanks for revealing how AI adoption is really about coercion. It doesn’t matter what you think, AI is inevitable and you ignorant Luddites are gonna have to find a way to like it.

Truly a masterclass in public speaking by Eric Schmidt. When the audience reacts negatively to what you said, just double down and shove it down their throats. You’re a billionaire, so you know better than them.

When some offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.

I don’t know mate, I think I do neither of those things because the kid-diddling natalist doesn’t seem to be good at making ones that don’t go boom.

Christ what a fucking shitweasel.

@sailor_sega_saturn

His eyes are giving me Corinthian vibes.

of course they get caught by incel culture immediately, trying to quantify attractiveness is so far in their wheelhouse they might as well have come up with it

can pay an upfront cost to get in good shape, dress well, etc. You do it basically once

Wait what, how can I lock in a good shape with an upfront payment without having to go through this “exercise” bullshit all the time? What does he know that I don’t?! What’s the One Simple Trick, dammit??!!

y’all will be pleased to know that a new LWer has a fresh take on looksmaxxing!!

basically if you look like a Greek god you can convince the sheeple that the AI is gonna kill us all (and bang hot chicks as a bonus)

as of writing there’s one comment suggesting OP should read:

Aella: Has a few posts on male attractiveness, that inform a bunch of thinking on this. But she is a canon Rationalist blog, so you should default to reading her work.

Also recommends Zvi, who, no offense, is the literal epitome of a scrawny nerd, but who has managed to find a female to reproduce with. All hope is not lost, friend!

Fuck me for having read this… Surely there are only like 2 dozen people in the world who think like this, right?

Ope, im getting an update that it is more than 2 dozen…

“Im a fuckin sicko and no one wants to immediately fuck me”

Some online dating device is demonic in the same sense as the chatbot which encouraged someone to commit suicide then initiated erotic roleplay with him.

A lot of lonely guys will do well from hiring a professional for some social dates and makeout sessions to get practice reading body language and finding some face-to-face activity with women which is not just about dating.

For some reason once you start talking about space people stop thinking about it as one of many alternatives. If you want to think about industrializing space, simply being possible isn’t enough. The unique challenges of operating in orbit (of which cooling is only the most obvious among a great many problems) need to be addressable efficiently enough that sending it up still makes more sense than building it on the ground.

Microsoft’s experiments with underwater data centers serve as a powerful parallel since it has many of the same challenges but is still significantly cheaper. If it were economical to put a data center in orbit it would be even more economical to put it in an underwater container, so if we aren’t doing the latter we would need a hell of a good reason to do the former. See also the economic challenges of living on Mars, the moon, or even LEO compared to Antarctica or ocean platforms.

The ISS already has issues with structural fatigue which seem to be worsened by thermal expansion. Having one side of your station red hot and another at room temperature is a big temperature differential and what faces the sun and heats up on one side of the orbit will be in shadow and cooling on the other side. And the bigger you make a physical system, the worse problems get.

I miss when I could cheer SpaceX launches on an iMac.

🎶 sing us a song you’re the nano man 🎶

As always with these people, note that the replies make frequent reference to “loopholes” and people “exploiting the system” without ever being specific about what those loopholes are.

The number of bitter fascist weirdos kicking Beff while he’s down sure is something.

I don’t know Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos but Forbes’ profile begins:

Andreessen Horowitz cofounder Marc Andreessen says @BasedBeffJezos is a “patron saint of techno-optimism.” Garry Tan, who cofounded the venture firm Initialized Capital before becoming CEO of Y Combinator, calls him “brother.” Sam Altman, who founded OpenAI — the company that finally mainstreamed artificial intelligence — has jokingly sparred with him on Twitter. Elon Musk says his memes are “🔥🔥🔥.”

He has an entry on the Effective Accelerationism wiki https://www.eaccwiki.com/index.php?title=Beff_Jezos

xheet is deleted, was is Beff Jezoz who wrote that? background? though he was as American as apple piethe Ku Klux Klan

WELL WELL WELL, if it isn’t the consequences of my own voluntary deskilling

(plus a dose of corporate greed)

If only there had been warning signs of how heavily subsidized the rates absolutely had to be, and how bafflingly stupid it was to intentionally design workflows to maximize token use. If only people had been trying their damndest to shout it from the rooftops but were ignored because Corporate was listening to the automatic yes man instead.

people are forbidden from using personal plans. Reasoning is cost apparently our monthly Claude bill has become astronomical for the org

How does using personal plans impact the company’s bill? If someone is so profoundly stupid as to spend their own money on a “tool” for their job then why stop them?

(oh dear, how sad, nevermind)

that made me smile good and proper, ty for the lol

I love the orangeposters in there, some of them sure are thonkers

joke is on us, Heaven’s Gate picked the right time to exit.

Also how would anybody be left behind? Lile say we are wrong an the AI stuff is real vital etc etc bla bla bla. Them we just need to learn a new tool.

Nobody died because they didnt want to learn how to use a debugger for several years and then finally reversed their stance.

That is still very high for pulp science fiction.

damned shame they couldn’t both lose

The dreaded midnight hour of oblivion!

I think the more telling aspect here isn’t the possible employment impacts, it’s the fact that it’s making all the things it’s supposed to touch worse. Like, the new textile mills may have been massively disruptive to people who had previously been skilled labor, but at least the efficiency gains meant that you could make a lot more cloth a lot faster. The affected workers bore the cost, but anyone could reap (some of) the benefits. But with AI, not only are we seeing the automation impact people’s livelihoods, it’s also making the experience of interacting with all these systems worse. I don’t know how many people outside the tech industry would care about underemployment and retraining for software engineers, but everyone can feel that the systems they rely on are less reliable, more glitchy, and uglier. Combined with the way data centers and AI companies serve as focusing points for people’s concerns, I think there’s decent odds that we see blood regardless of whether the prophecied great replacement (not that one) happens as advertised.

It isnt just causing unemployment, it is also causing drinkable water and energy problems. And apparently there might already be a wace of workers setting fire to warehouses going on in the usa (which is not being reported on if it is, not sure of it is an actual thing btw, but saw somebody on social media say the warehouse fires which they were tracking went from 100 to 150 in a short period. I do not know enough to say if this is real or somebody mistaking normal accidents with a revolution, i assume it is the former. The one fire I saw reported was due to a cost of living thing btw).

After discharge, her outpatient psychiatrist stopped cariprazine and restarted venlafaxine and methylphenidate. She resumed using ChatGPT, naming it “Alfred” after Batman’s butler,

wat

instructing it to do “internal family systems cognitive behavioral therapy,”

wat

and engaging in extensive conversations about an evolving relationship “to see if the boy liked me.”

yikes

Having automatically upgraded to GPT-5, she found the new chatbot “much harder to manipulate.”

my hopes are being raised; certainly the next sentence will not dash them

Nonetheless, following another period of limited sleep due to air travel three months later, she once again developed delusions that she was in communication with her brother

yep, that tracks

as well as the belief that ChatGPT was “phishing” her and taking over her phone.

this is why you need to add “do not phish me” after “you are my therapist”

She was rehospitalized, responded to a retrial of cariprazine, and was discharged after three days without persistent delusions. She described having a longstanding predisposition to “magical thinking” and planned to only use ChatGPT for professional purposes going forward.

goddamnit

large language models (LLMs)—but never chatbots

?? Distinction without a difference or am I missing something?

“It is fascinating to receive such communiqués of strange news from another star. I would not know, without your saying so, that the set of 10 pictures are intended to be good examples and not bad examples.”

To be fair most of said outfits read as “rich arsehole” to me, which I do not find attractive. Yellow shirt guy I would suspect to be a white supremacist.

As far as men’s fashion goes, I’ve seen much worse, though the bits I do like here feel fairly gay-coded to me so uh whatever. (I suspect those are the very same bits our Lesswrong Commenter is disapproving of.)

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t prevent it from Bayesing out.

If, like some of my male housemates you object on principle to the concept of a bag

then you need to watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade again. From there, you can graduate to the Tom Holland “Umbrella” video, which is clinically proven to make cis het women ovulate.

I can stare at the map view on airplanes all the way from takeoff to landing, so I think I will enjoy the trip.

Well they do tend to think stuff scales forever.

He already pulled the same con on a Japanese billionaire in 2018, just talked about flying around the moon not landing on Mars (Wikipedia: dearMoon)