[–] 10 points 2 years ago

So it looks like Mr. “Not consistently candid” has been at it again?

I will admit that they got me with this one: I genuinely thought the FrontierMath results meant something real. I didn’t think they would be that brazen about rigging a benchmark that was explicitly advertised as being kept private so that AI companies couldn’t train on the questions. More fool me I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.

    If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.

    I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    ^F David Gerard

    Imagine one day David Gerard of /r/SneerClub said, "Eliezer Yudkowsky is a white supremacist!" And you replied: "No, I'm not! That's a lie." And imagine E.T. Jaynes was still alive...

    I‘m impressed at the way you still manage to live rent free in these chud’s heads. The bogeyman is real if you’re a rationalist apparently & his name is D.Gerard.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    (Follows link to authors blog, reads blogroll)

    JFC. Kathleen Stock. They have the entire universe of gender studies to choose from & Kathleen Stock is their philosopher of choice.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m amazed that the random shitposting of a bunch of nerds who band together purely to dunk on terrible rationalist takes weighs so heavily on their minds. Aren’t they supposed to be above that kind of thing?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They’re up to their armpits in a pit of self-loathing of their own making & unable to take any of the proffered help because their self-imposed ethical system doesn’t permit it.

    Profoundly sad is exactly what it is.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Yup. Discoverability in Discord servers is dire. The privacy issues are the bonus shit topping.

    “How dare you not read through six months of discussion threads in order to find the last time your question was answered” is such a great way to welcome newbies to a project.

    Discord is actually pretty good at the thing it was designed for: realtime comms between friends, both text & voice. It’s terrible at everything else & I wish people would stop using it, but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen any time soon.

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