/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9684148
>>>/x/ is fucking that way.

literally who?

>>9684160
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
https://www.lesserwrong.com/rationality/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUjc1WuyPT8

>>9684148
>>9684165
absolute faggot.
>"Given a task, I still have an enormous amount of trouble actually sitting down and doing it. (Yes, I'm sure it's unpleasant for you too. Bump it up by an order of magnitude, maybe two, then live with it for eight years.) My energy deficit is the result of a false negative-reinforcement signal, not actual damage to the hardware for willpower; I do have the neurological ability to overcome procrastination by expending mental energy. I don't dare. If you've read the history of my life, you know how badly I've been hurt by my parents asking me to push myself. I'm afraidto push myself. It's a lesson that has been etched into me with acid. And yes, I'm good enough at self-alteration to rip out that part of my personality, disable the fear, but I don't dare do that either. The fear exists for a reason. It's the result of a great deal of extremely unpleasant experience. Would you disable your fear of heights so that you could walk off a cliff? I can alter my behavior patterns by expending willpower - once. Put a gun to my head, and tell me to do or die, and I can do. Once. Put a gun to my head, tell me to do or die, twice, and I die. It doesn't matter whether my life is at stake. In fact, as I know from personal experience, it doesn't matter whether my home planet and the life of my entire species is at stake. If you can imagine a mind that knows it could save the world if it could just sit down and work, and if you can imagine how that makes me feel, then you have understood the single fact that looms largest in my day-to-day life."

>>9684148
once read his harry potter fanfics and quickly realised that he is an inordinate faggot and have since then not bothered to read any other of his mental masturbations

>>9684231
>He's lazy therefore he's wrong

>>9684148
Scott Alexander >>>> Jewdkowsky
Yes, I know Scott is Jewish too.

I agree with a lot of what he says but I disagree with some stuff as well

>>9684939
What do you agree and disagree with specifically?

>>9684453
its not about being lazy faggot, its that he wrote this paragraph long piece of shit about his woes and laziness using as many buzzwords and retarded words to sound smart as possible

>>9684148
Archetypal neckbeard “rationalist”. Literally worth zero time or thought

>>9684231
>faggot
Why the homophobia?

>>9684148
His face literally screams
"I played WoW for 12 consecutive years in my mothers basement"
"I just ate a bowl of cereal"
"I eat 3 bowls of cereal a day with extra milk"
"I jack off three times daily, have vitamin defficiency, and hair loss"
"I have a poor diet and dont exercise"
"I am stupid but have an unjustified ego probably related to a persona I believe I embody on the internet or my own personal fantasies"

In other words he is disgusting and a revolting example of the pathetic and effeminate lows the men of our society have been crushed into. I will add him to my textbook as Fig. 48.24 in section 24.7, "Beta Male Inverterbrates & Epigenetic Cattle-Class Formation

>>9685422
Who is someone else you think is worth time or thought?

>>9685440
In which field?

>>9684148
Eliezer Yudkowsky
what should you think about this man? well, let's tell you some facts about him:
>he is an "ai researcher" despite having no formal education, not even finishing highschool
>he says he is a good programmer except he literally has no code published, and is mentioned in exactly zero scientific papers which aren't self published
>there is no proof anywhere that he has actually worked with any sort of AI (neural nets, computer vision, anything)
>his most popular work is literal harry potter science fiction
>he unironically thinks he is a very good writer
>he thinks a doctorate in AI is useless
>he thinks that people with PhDs are in general dumber than him
>he has written an autobiography
>he mentions multiple times in the aforementioned autobiography that he is a "genius"
>he believes in cryonics
>he once tried to "make" a wikipedia clone, but since he is the skilled programmer he claims to be, he hired others (for dubious reasons, obviously). the project started going, but it failed ultimately because his idea was shit and he doesnt know how to lead a project
>he is one of bayesianfags and unrionically thinks bayes' theorem is more than a simple statistical tool and can be applied to literally anything and is the solution for sentient AI (because muh self learning formula)
>he thinks the many-worlds interpretation is the only correct one for quantum physics
>he believes in utilitarianism despite looking like a 35 yr old neckbeard who according to his own belief should actually be eliminated
and much more, but it's too much to actually write it down in one post

>>9685455
Why do you know so much about this literally who?

>>9685459
I had to argue with a singularityfag once and he always used this retards' arguments so I looked him up

>>9685455
great post

>>9685453
Rationality, epistemology, transhumanism, AI, those sorts of things

>>9685486
Kurzweil

>>9685455
>he thinks (((college))) is still useful in the current year
>he doesn't know what autodidactism is

>>9685455
>he believes in cryonics
And what counterarguments do you have against cryonics working and it being a bad idea to sign up for it?

https://alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm
https://www.cryonics.org/about-us/faqs/
https://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html
https://www.cryonicscalculator.com/

>>9685498
>And what counterarguments do you have against cryonics working and it being a bad idea to sign up for it
that it doesnt work retard
>>9685496
>literally ignoring all of the other points in the post

>>9685489
IIRC, Kurzweil's 2045 Singularity prediction is based on Moore's Law being constant. I imagine the Singularity happening more around the 2070s-2080s. He also has some other questionable beliefs, like in drinking alkaline water.

>>9685455
>he is one of bayesianfags and unrionically thinks bayes' theorem is more than a simple statistical tool and can be applied to literally anything and is the solution for sentient AI (because muh self learning formula)
What sorts of things can Bayes' Theorem not be applied to?

>>9685503
>that it doesnt work
Yet

>>9685433
>"I jack off three times daily, have vitamin defficiency, and hair loss"

>>9685509
almost anything except statistics genius

>>9685511
exactly faggot, so whats the point in killing you with ice in the belief some aliens might magically restore your actually nonexistent brain

>>9685509
>What sorts of things can Bayes' Theorem not be applied to?
Bayes theorem is more of a weak heuristic than a genuine theorem

>>9685562
Because it's a lot more likely to lead to your revival than being buried or cremated.

>aliens
>magic
Now you're just being retarded.

>>9685560
>>9685596
Then do you have some better method for determining truth for use in epistemology?

>>9685486
>Rationality, epistemology
Maybe try an actual philosopher? Aristotle, Descartes and Hume are good introductions. I know /sci/ hates philosophy, but it’s the best we have in terms of an organised effort to try to figure this stuff out.
>transhumanism, AI
Meme subjects. Not because they aren’t possible or won’t occur, but because their development is essentially unaffected by people talking about the ethics of them.

someone post his >tfw to smart to diet shitpost

>>/sci/image/XZWE8OgDNkSmqdok9Wd4nw

Can this fucker get banned for spamming already?

>>9685433
>"I jack off three times daily, have vitamin defficiency, and hair loss"
I've been jacking off constantly for over two decades and I have yet to lose my hair. In my 30's btw. Getting a little grey, though.

>>9687432
got you covered senpai

>>9687432

>>9687861
>I will delete comments suggesting diet or exercise

>>9687861
>>9687864
>check ur metabolic privilege
Holy fuck my sides

>>9684148
He's a fat basedboy who thinks he's hot shit because he had a week of fame during GG

>>9684231
>>9685455
>>9687861
>>9687864
holy fuck how can such a retarded person have such a huge following

>>9688125
s o y b o y *

Why is this on /sci/