It’s weird how secretive they’re being about the location. The website doesn’t say where it is, just that it’s an hour away (by boat? by plane?) from Singapore. There’s no actual photos, just AI mockups or whatever. You need to apply to find out the location apparently. No word on if they have actual buildings or tents or shacks or what.

Imagine if you wanted to go to a non-culty school and they were like “yeah, we’ll tell you what country our campus is in… once you apply!”

Don’t worry I’m sure they’ll use their cryptocurrency scam money to keep their hungry students well f–

oh. oh no.

Bryan Johnson is working with us to make longevity a core part of the program. All attendees get daily Blueprint meals and group workouts with semi-personal trainers.

Oh no

Nighttime erections 179 min, better than ave 18 year old

They’re doomed.

/r/AnimeCircleJerk

Always a coin flip on if circlejerk subs are fascist or not. But this one looks pretty alright at first glance! Lots of making fun of transphobia and creepy people.

Ugh you’re probably right. I thought it looked weird but didn’t really think about it.

Latest from Cyberstuck: Just see for yourself. I… I have no words.

Update: I may have been bamboozled by computer imagery. Someone call Captain Disillusion.

Optimizing mating strategies? But I’m terrible at chess!

Just as long as you don’t say the ‘c’ word.

My wife just received an email from the online retailer. She has been asked to “Not take any photographs or copies of the product in question due to copyright issues” and it states, “the product must be returned immediately by special delivery by [DATE].” There’s some other statements as well about our account being terminated if we fail to return the product by the specific date. We’ve got a lot of movies and series that we have purchased over the years on this account, I wouldn’t want to lose them.

They’ve stated that taking photos of the book will break a bunch of laws. They also stated that not promptly returning the book would may break some laws, and lead to the termination of my account.

Does the CEO of Totally-Not-Amazon know that his company is signing it’s name to stupid letters?

Dude came up with an unofficial wikipedia article naming dispute resolution process, used it on a single article, saw the mostly negative feedback…

And thought “you know what. I should build a political party around this and get Elon Musk on board”.

15 years to realize their UIs might be bad. How many years until they realize UI and system design (including protocols, backend, etc) are inextricably linked?

Microsoft’s excuse is that many of these attacks require an insider.

Sure we made phishing way easier, more dangerous, and more subtle; but it was the user’s fault for trusting our Don’t Trust Anything I Say O-Matic workplace productivity suite!

Edit: and really from the demos it looks like a user wouldn’t have to do anything at all besides write “summarize my emails” once. No need to click on anything for confidential info to be exfiltrated if the chatbot can already download arbitrary URLs based on the prompt injection!

Many other versions listed here: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52581

If I were really advocating for LLMs here I could point out that arguably the intense training process might smear data from individual data points (a PNG of a one dollar bill) to experiences (a general understanding of dolar-bill-ness). Bringing computers closer to the organic mind. After all LLM outputs aren’t always word for word matches.

Where this argument falls apart is that it’s clear it doesn’t work in practice yet. An LLM can get it’s output statistically reasonable, but it isn’t actually experiencing. If it had truly experienced math it wouldn’t have such a hard time answering simple math questions. If it had truly experienced the collective literature of the human race then it wouldn’t write such soulless poetry (or equivalently / alternatively soulful poetry requires more than reading stuff).

(Also gosh dang I just expressed that meme image about information, data, knowledge, wisdom, in comment form didn’t I)?

So basically my body has experienced the LLM bubble and those experiences smeared across my brain so that when I later consider if brains are computers my little grey cells remember all the bad experiences and revolt and make me think about cat-boys instead. Whoa, the math checks out!

r.e the ip vs organism point. I gotta admit I’m struggling with seeing how anyone could think people are like computers in the first place when we’re so obviously not. I had a bunch of jumbled thoughts written out, but they all really boiled down to this.

Like I understand that some people think computers and people are similar* but I don’t. I don’t understand it at all. Today computers are good at running electricity down wires really really fast to do stuff like execute x86_64 assembly language, while humans are way better at everything else **. And then there’s stuff like encephalitis and gut brain connection which are very organic things which can influence thinking. And then and then like (handwaves) computers don’t experience at all aahhhh

* There was that Google programmer who fell in love with LaMDA

** Arguably humans are also better at x86_64 assembly language than computers are, except for speed, given that: 1. we created it 2. if you gave us a block of assembly language with a bug somewhere in the middle we’d have a better chance of finding it. 3. We can edit it.

Generative AI animations already draw completely cursed faces*, I can’t wait to see what they do with youtuber face.

* Gee I wonder why Sora used a balloon head for their big demo. I’m sure that’s a coincidence.

What if the simulation was created specifically to have lower suffering/higher utils than in reality?

Wait so maybe the universe is just a cosmic gated community? No wonder there are so many racists.

NotANaziIWasJustBornIn1988 - 24 points

Yikes, OK I already regret clicking that link.

What really gets me about this sort of nonsense is how anthropocentric it all is.

Like they’re just assuming that if we can make simulations, then a simulator simulating the universe would work largely the same because statistics or whatever.

Even if you accept this statistical hand-waving, simulations we have today are generally extremely different from the real world. For instance: Mario Kart, The Game of Life, Chess Moves, C++ compilation, Bitcoin hashes, MIDI instruments, Communication protocols, Elevator motion, Wind tunnel simulations, Building Load simulations, Weather pattern simulations, Art brush strokes, Lara Croft hair motion, Chip’s Challenge, vtuber facial recognition and animation, compression, ray tracing, drug interaction simulations, erosion simulation, 3D renders for animes about gunslinging high school girls, computers made out of water channels, and DRM.

And if you don’t accept the statistical argument then what you can reason about extra-dimensionally is extremely limited. Even if there is an embedding universe, it doesn’t have to play by the rules of our universe. It could be unimaginably vast. Or the idea of “vastness” or “time” or “space” might not even make sense. Or the very concept of “sense”, “nonsense”, “possible” or “impossible” could be absent. Time could be 7D, or not there at all.

The world could be a tapestry painted by Lord Quuxlox the world painter. Alice could have used her sage skill Another Kingdom to create the setting for her twisted theme park. Someone could have pressed the 7G button by accident. There could be a vast space of possibilities where all things that can exist or cannot exist are born and die.

This is of course all a very silly line of thought I just wrote, but no more silly than shouting “I NO LONGER CONSENT TO BEING IN THE MATRIX” as if someone (who knows English! and can separate it out from all the noise in the universe!) was listening.

It’s just looking for a God or an afterlife without turning to religion.

The design of ActivityPub (or at least Mastodon) doesn’t exactly help here either, given that you can’t see most of the replies unless you click through to the original instance.

It’s way too easy to leave a reply to a post without realizing that 30 other people have already said the exact same thing. So when I wan’t to avoid being repetitive I have to remember to click through.

Presented without comment: this utter crankery about hacking the Matrix (HN)

Given the highly speculative subject of this paper, we will attempt to give our work more gravitas by concentrating only on escape paths which rely on attacks similar to those we see in cybersecurity [37-39] research (hardware/software hacks and social engineering) and will ignore escape attempts via more esoteric paths such as:, meditation [40], psychedelics (DMT [41-43], ibogaine, psilocybin, LSD) [44, 45], dreams [46], magic, shamanism, mysticism, hypnosis, parapsychology, death (suicide [47], near-death experiences, induced clinical death), time travel, multiverse travel [48], or religion.

Among the things they’ve already tried are torture, touching grass, and declining all cookies:

Unethical behavior, such as torture, doesn’t cause suffering reducing interventions from the simulators.

Breaking out of your routine, such as by suddenly traveling to a new location [199], doesn’t result in unexpected observations.

Saying “I no longer consent to being in a simulation” [200].