Rome was so good. At least they managed to give it a finale of sorts, but, like, they were supposed to be setting up Atia’s jewish Oddjob to eventually become The Jesus and I’d love to have seen how that would have gone over.

At least Deadwood eventually got a wrap-up movie

Master And Commander would probably be great with muppets too.

(1) A lot of the stuff Netflix axed as soon as they hit three seasons instead of paying the guild mandated raises, like Santa Clarita Diet. Also on the subject of Netflix, the cancellation of Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance after one season was completely unforgivable, a really high quality labor of love that didn’t deserve to be done in like this.

(2) Recency bias but Redliners by David Drake, I guess, military sci-fi should fit the style. It’s the story of a mid-alien-war settler expedition in non-enemy territory that on the dl was supposed to work as a more active means of reintegrating it’s guard detachment of ptsd’ed out veterans (the titular redliners) back into society, that goes immediately, terribly, awry.

(3) Matrix and Oldboy for perfecting various aspects of modern film-making into cultural milestonehood, but realistically any aspirant would probably be far better served by binging MST3K and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

(4) Star Trek, probably. Its parodies already seem more in the spirit of the original than the current series anyway.

I assume that’s more because they used AI to lift zootopia’s art style wholesale and so that’s just how rabbits are now.

It’s not so much he fails the purity test than it is he thinks all gen-ai works like whisper on a laptop and open source LLMs grow on trees.

edit: and also that big company engineers are encouraged to be discreet in using them, like what?

CEV is what he would want if he were wiser and less confused

Isn’t that just steelmanning?

I gathered the “idealized version of myself” was because it’s supposed to be applied to a superintelligence, because of course it’s an alignment thing.

I checked it out because I was curious if CEV was some international relations initialism I’d never heard of, turns out its just My Guess About What He Wants in rationalese.

Richard Lynn was right

Ah yes, the everyone in the continent of Africa and parts of Asia is secretly heavily developmentally disabled, my friend Cremieux who’s definitely a highly accredited biologistician and not a college drop out who’s also a nazi thinks this as well post.

Re the incel stuff I think the regulars grew older so it doesn’t come up as much outside the comments, which remain a safe space for this type of whining.

It’s not really extricable from the eugenics iinspired bioessentialism that’s encouraged there I think.

The MCP thing feels like an I like to leave my keys as a huge bulge under the welcome mat type vulnerability. It seems really easy to not do that and also something that is kind of out of scope for both lock makers and mat salesmen to address directly.

Maybe the MCP ecosystem is such that it’s hard to both avoid this and keep the impression that you’re doing magic and not just implementing a heavily annotated API, hopefully secured and with specific and well-defined functionality, and also they are all hacks.

Back in the old days, if you got found out for a race science and men’s rights internet instigator, there was the slight possibility that you might actually have to deal with negative real-life implications.

Sigh.

Rationalists tend to lean more towards anime villain that Bond villain, but yeah.

just one more data trove bro

Are new data-hungry players entering the market of are we still pretending that shoveling more social media posts to the data furnace will somehow overcome structural limitations?

Unless he specifies his problem was with ostensibly leftist academics being specifically too dismissive of race science and incelist tropes this is worthless, just run of the mill face-leopard schadenfreude.

Also the second half (the what? what’s the cut-off point?) of his career has been if anything more mask off, and it’s not like he stopped whining about woke after posting a half-hearted disapproval of trump like three days before the election after years of writing about how cool it would be if there was less regulation especially for healthcare.

Reading Heinlein as a kid isn’t even especially notable, but it’s Yud so he definitely means the polyamory advocacy stuff specifically.

Luckily we should be getting trickle down free will, since all universes are (of course) able to develop technology to perfectly simulate universes of lesser complexity, which seems to imply the existence of a special universe of ultimate complexity where all others emanate from, possibly in line with ain soph or equivalent mystical concept.

I don’t know how that squares with that blabbing about the tegmarkian multiverse that supposedly posits that mathematically simple universes “exist ‘more’”, which siskind probably just included to reinforce his consciousness as a non-physical, mathematical object premise.

I didn’t say things I believed false

What a peculiar and lawyer-friendly way to say “I didn’t outright lie”.

Committing suicide to “force the coin toss” like in SOMA’s backstory is approaching transhumanist praxis.

I think this is a response to Yud’s teaching that a copy of you is really you

It’s not so much a response as it is just running with it until you hit the concepts of the soul and the godhead face first.

edit: it’s also mercifully short, like not even 3k words.

Christianity certainly runs the gamut wrt to free will, from it being strictly necessary to explain away the problem of evil to, well, Calvinism.

I think SBF’s Scamfest Spectacular did a good enough job of that already :P

Still, being a possible hotbed for domestic terrorism is a whole different ballpark of having the authorities meddle into your day-to-day.