I’ve been watching a streamer play it. I thought it would be kinda cringe and it is, but there are some fun jokes here and there. But I get what you’re saying, I think.

ah I guess I love my brain and date everything has infected it, erasing any other knowledge of anthropomorphisation

Date everything is infecting everything I know and love

Hey, at least it’s efficiently making number 2 on the side while spitting out user prompted number 2s.

Derpadoid Burpateria

Wow, that highlighting really emphasises the insidious, nefarious behaviour. This is only a hop, skip, and jump away from, what was it again? Rhomboid? Rheumatoid bactothefuture?

I read a review (the one hosted on the ebert site) and it seems like this just falls into one of the patterns we’ve already seen when other people not steeped in the X risk miasma engage with it. As in, what should be a documentary about how the AI industry is a bubble and that all the AI ceos are grifters or deluded or both, is instead a “somehow I managed to fall for Yud’s whole thing and am now spreading the word” type deal. Big sigh!

Nonono if it’s US backed then it’s capitalist and free market and good don’t you see /s

Not engaging in debate club remans winning

I feel like I nailed my guess

Reads like bad blaseball fanfic

Pure speculation: my guess is that an “apocaloptimist” is just someone fully bought into all of the rationalist AI delulu. Specifically:

• AGI is possible
• AGI will solve all our current problems
• A future where AGI ends humanity is possible/probable

and they take the extra belief, steeped in the grand tradition of liberal optimism, that we will solve the alignment problem and everything will be ok. Again, just guessing here.

obligatory: if books could kill did an ep on his big book “sapiens”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/18220972-sapiens

fuck this tweet and fuck yud

It’s his alt for people who want more yud spam, hence “all the yud.” From his twitter bio:

This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.

It’s on sight with all these fucks holy shit

I liked the part where the reviewer is mysteriously compelled to visit France while reading this novel, which is notably set in France.

I’d chalk it up to the LWer inability to a) summarise and/or summarise accurately, and/or b) LLM usage.

Username is one “t” off from being an anagram for enteritis

smdh for not welcoming vampires in for peaceful discourse and good faith debates instead