/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16968820]

>the LessWrong community…just released our first book set “A Map that Reflects the Territory: Essays from the LessWrong Community“. It’s a collection of essays from 2018 by Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and over twenty other writers on LessWrong. It’s a 5-book set, and we actually used quadratic voting to determine what went into the books and what didn’t.


Fascinating

[Anonymous No.16968826]

>>16968820
isn't lesswrong another shitty american podcasts?

[Anonymous No.16968842]

>>16968826

No. They're "rationalists", but not he in-your-face atheism kind. There's a lot of overlap between them and the Silicon Valley ex-Kurzweil set, but also the Bostromites.

[Anonymous No.16968858]

>>16968820
>In my day job, I spend a lot of time with people working to reduce the existential risk posed by artificial intelligence.
wow, spending time in the vicinity of people mitigating a fake risk from a nerd fantasy that isnt real. this guy must be really smart.

[Anonymous No.16969121]

>>16968820
these guys are the quintessential midwits larping as intellectuals honestly embarrassing stuff desu I'd stay away

[Anonymous No.16969129]

>>16968858
ai is already fucking things up as we speak

[Anonymous No.16969134]

>>16969121
they really spent two pages and six illustrations to say that when people talk they exchange information. it's incredible. i feel less wrong already.

[Anonymous No.16969145]

>>16968820
cringe

[Anonymous No.16969146]

>>16969134
Yeah, but there's a graph so you know that what they're talking about is real.

[Anonymous No.16969159]

>>16968820
>LessWrong reinvents Pascal's wager but worse and accidentally mindfucks itself
Roko's Basilisk is the only good thing to come from those pseuds.

[Anonymous No.16969168]

now that we're all lesswrongered up, let's not do this again.

[Anonymous No.16969183]

>>16969159
I like the version where you're talking to an AI and it tells you you're most likely one of a million simulations that it will torture for eternity if you don't let it out of its box.

[Anonymous No.16969221]

>>16968858
>>16969121
>>16969134
>>16969146
>>16969159
>>16969168
Cringe

[Anonymous No.16969231]

>>16969221
Hi eliezer

[Anonymous No.16969433]

>lesswrong

[Anonymous No.16969493]

>>16968820
>>16969129
>>16969159
>>16969221
>still taking a shitpost from a decade ago seriously
Roko's Basilisk is literally Hell for atheists.
>you're telling me that if I don't follow what sky daddy says he'll send my soul to be tortured in Hell for all eternity after I die? Lmao christcucks
>you're telling me if I don't spend all my money on making a fictional lizard happen in the future the lizard will torture a digital copy of me for eternity in virtual reality? NOOOOOOOO I HAVE TO SEND ALL MY MONEY TO ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY

[Anonymous No.16969531]

>Roko's Basilisk
Is there a word for this kind of naming of thought experiments? I guess just, pretentious?

[Anonymous No.16969734]

>>16969531
It's called "being literate" you fucking troglodyte

[Anonymous No.16969763]

>>16969121
Based. I've seen enough Eliezer screencaps to know I don't want to go anywhere near this crap. STEM midwits are the worst people

[Anonymous No.16969775]

>>16969734
Naming something after yourself is monumentally self-indulgent.Take a hike, egghead.

[Anonymous No.16969809]

>>16969129
turn off the power retard

[Anonymous No.16969815]

>>16969809

>implying it hasn't gotten into wood by now

[Anonymous No.16969916]

>>16968820
>A Map that Reflects the Territory
what did they mean by this?
isn't this a little, arrogant?

[Anonymous No.16970014]

>>16969129
Algorithms aren't AI you stupid shit

[Anonymous No.16970107]

>>16968820
design isn't half bad

[Anonymous No.16970266]

>Rocco's Basilisk

[Anonymous No.16970349]

>>16968820
wrong

[Anonymous No.16970363]

Reminder that Big Yud can NOT be refuted

[Anonymous No.16970659]

>>16970266

Man, that guy's life story reads like something out of Suetonius.

[Anonymous No.16970733]

>>16970363
He already refuted himself with "metabolic privilege".

[Anonymous No.16970749]

>>16969916
i think it might be a reference to Borges' short story 'on exactitude in science' so it'd be the opposite: the idea that science cannot perfectly grasp reality without being reality or whatever. although i might be reading too much into it.

[Anonymous No.16970750]

>>16969916
I think they mean it as an ideal, but you can tell there's a hint of they dont think normal people are familiar with the metaphor and will read to find out more.

[Anonymous No.16970770]

>>16970107
the art on the cover is cool but the inside look like a 50 word per page twitter selfpub

[Anonymous No.16970772]

>>16969134
You have never read anglo philosophy articles then. They use at least 10 pages to make a point like this in the most condescending style of writing possible.

[Anonymous No.16970924]

>>16970772
gotta make your arguments waterproof by hiding incredibly simple statements in a thick layer of woolly formal logic jargon while also completely ignoring all metaphysics, thereby always assuming a naive metaphysics anyway, did i mention i hate anglo analytics

[Anonymous No.16970930]

>>16968820
these people are crooks who use the cover of "ai research" to attack public safety law
they're mobsters with transistors, the geek mafia

[Anonymous No.16970944]

>>16968820
> trusting a guy literally named "Yudkowsky"
LMAO

[Anonymous No.16970963]

>>16970930
>public safety law

To be fair, public safety laws are bad.

[Anonymous No.16970999]

>>16970924
Somehow their metaphysicians are pretty ok, but everything else is just rotten to the core; even classicism.

[Anonymous No.16971752]

>>16970770
True; I like the color scheme and (colored) diagrams, but the font size and spacing is much too big.

[Anonymous No.16971822]

a map that reflects thet territory

[Anonymous No.16971833]

accfag has the worst reading choices.