Part of the ritual of determining if someone is fit to lead, is to knock them down a few pegs and see how they react.
I just finished the third book of the space drama sci-fi book series Hyperion Cantos from the 1990s.
It’s fascinating how nearly all space scifi books have to try to make space seem smaller via some mechanism of faster than light communication, if not travel.
In this series, “the void that binds” was the ftl substrate, and “time debt” for cryogenic hibernation was a nice way to handle Einsteins’s theories of time dilation.
Sci-fi authors have a way of making the enormous smaller, to logarithmically process our galaxy. Physics and the speed of light always gets in the way.
Read more sci-fi, anon! It expands your mind.
It’s fascinating how nearly all space scifi books have to try to make space seem smaller via some mechanism of faster than light communication, if not travel.
In this series, “the void that binds” was the ftl substrate, and “time debt” for cryogenic hibernation was a nice way to handle Einsteins’s theories of time dilation.
Sci-fi authors have a way of making the enormous smaller, to logarithmically process our galaxy. Physics and the speed of light always gets in the way.
Read more sci-fi, anon! It expands your mind.
I’m so happy DEI is on its way out of corporations.
All racial quotas are racist.
If a candidate for a job is the best for the job, hire them. If that means you end up with fewer or more persons from specific demographic groups, so be it.
Same with crime: punish people for the actions they take, and if some demographic groups end up disproportionately incarcerated so be it.
Same with college admissions.
Treat everyone equally (as in equal opportunity not equal outcome), and let the chips fall where they may.
If certain demographic groups don’t get evenly represented, so what?
Push for full meritocracy.
Treat everyone equally under the law.
No quotas. No trying to balance the scales. Remove barriers to entry instead of trying to tweak the numbers of the final distribution.
All racial quotas are racist.
If a candidate for a job is the best for the job, hire them. If that means you end up with fewer or more persons from specific demographic groups, so be it.
Same with crime: punish people for the actions they take, and if some demographic groups end up disproportionately incarcerated so be it.
Same with college admissions.
Treat everyone equally (as in equal opportunity not equal outcome), and let the chips fall where they may.
If certain demographic groups don’t get evenly represented, so what?
Push for full meritocracy.
Treat everyone equally under the law.
No quotas. No trying to balance the scales. Remove barriers to entry instead of trying to tweak the numbers of the final distribution.
Corporations who hired illegal immigrants because they wanted to skirt minimum wage laws should be sued into oblivion and bankrupted. If the companies cannot pay fair wages for work in America, instead of trying to find criminals who’d work under the table for cheap in order to maximize profit, fight against minimum wage laws. I for one love the cultural push to absolutely demolish the illegal immigration.
“In the face of cryptocurrencies, fiat currency dies like newspapers did: slowly, then all at once.”
Vitalik says that AGI is considered reached when AI builds a profitable company.
Microsoft says that AGI is achieved when AI reaches $100B in profits.
But is the “General” part of “Artificial *General* Intelligence” achieved at specific capitalistic milestones?
Is an AI founder necessarily a generalist? Can it compose a symphony, can it fix your plumbing, can it reach the stars?
I find it so annoying and money focused to define an artificial generalist as some corporate or economic goal.
Their bias is showing.
Really, we should be constantly measuring and quantifying which tasks it can’t do, and let it asymptotically get closer to being a “generalist” over time.
If we want to”Artificial General Intelligence” to be able to do a variety of tasks, let’s measure how much of a variety of tasks it can do.
Microsoft says that AGI is achieved when AI reaches $100B in profits.
But is the “General” part of “Artificial *General* Intelligence” achieved at specific capitalistic milestones?
Is an AI founder necessarily a generalist? Can it compose a symphony, can it fix your plumbing, can it reach the stars?
I find it so annoying and money focused to define an artificial generalist as some corporate or economic goal.
Their bias is showing.
Really, we should be constantly measuring and quantifying which tasks it can’t do, and let it asymptotically get closer to being a “generalist” over time.
If we want to”Artificial General Intelligence” to be able to do a variety of tasks, let’s measure how much of a variety of tasks it can do.
One of the core tenets of the Dune universe is that Reverend Mothers, and Paul and God Emperor, got shown and thus burdened with the memories of countless past generations of ancestors.
But beyond just talking about the “pain and sorrows of centuries”, what would actually be imparted that would be so bad?
Well, countless murders, rapes, torturing. Cruelty, betrayal, savagery. Needless death of children, babies, burning families alive, whatever psychopaths have ever done.
How many could handle that, and how many would have the ability to withstand that and maintain their sanity? (One of the core themes of Dune is that the messiah was the first male to survive the accepting of ancestral memories, dealing with the cruelty of men and women).
But beyond just talking about the “pain and sorrows of centuries”, what would actually be imparted that would be so bad?
Well, countless murders, rapes, torturing. Cruelty, betrayal, savagery. Needless death of children, babies, burning families alive, whatever psychopaths have ever done.
How many could handle that, and how many would have the ability to withstand that and maintain their sanity? (One of the core themes of Dune is that the messiah was the first male to survive the accepting of ancestral memories, dealing with the cruelty of men and women).
One of my favorite uses of LLM’s such as ChatGPT is to just ask it to explain a topic from scratch, like how a radio works and how I’d build one from scratch in an apocalypse. I’m learning about homemade diodes via aluminum foil, I’m learning how to tune it to a radio station based on how many loops I wind a copper wire around a cylinder, and I’m getting back into some EM physics! As all these new tech tools come out, don’t just ask it to write a formal email for you and then go back to your life… that’s how you fall behind. Instead, actively use it to expand your mind.
Saying no to the covid vaccine circa 2021-2022 was the hard choice. Saying yes was the easy choice going along with the crowd.
Hmm, let’s see what comes out four+ years later and reflect back on our own decision-making process.
I have no regrets saying no; do you?
Hmm, let’s see what comes out four+ years later and reflect back on our own decision-making process.
I have no regrets saying no; do you?
““For many Americans we simply do not know the answer as to whether or not they should be getting the seventh or eighth or ninth or tenth COVID-19 booster,” said Prasad, who joined the FDA earlier this month.”
Fuck all these people. Anyone who is advocating people potentially getting a tenth COVID booster shot are retarded.
The truth will out.
Fuck all these people. Anyone who is advocating people potentially getting a tenth COVID booster shot are retarded.
The truth will out.