gerikson

joined 2 years ago
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

In 12 years we'll get a book "My Mom Outsourced Raising Me to AI and it Broke Me"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No True AI Deployment

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sad if true. I really enjoyed his book The Wages of Destruction which mythbusts a lot of folk knowledge about the Nazis

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/The-Wages-of-Destruction.html

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (30 children)

"Enjoy" this Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktydLowvEg8NxaG4Z/neuroscience-of-human-sexual-attraction-triggers-3

I have but skimmed it, not plumbed its depths for sneers.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for pointing me to this. I hadn't read the Wolfe story and I appreciated it. I skipped most of the gwern fluff, precisely because while his preferred interpretation is one possible of many, what I like about Wolfe is that the story can be about multiple things beside that.

And the illustration sucks.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After spending hundreds of hours per mod year trying to get a Wronger on the Right track , mod Habryka spends multiple hours writing a post explaining why the Wronger gets a 3 year ban

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/98sCTsGJZ77WgQ6nE/banning-said-achmiz-and-broader-thoughts-on-moderation

Bonus appearance of r/SneerClub right after the preamble!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Nuclear has been a running sore in Swedish politics since the late 70s. Opposition to it represented the reaction to the classic employer-employee class detente in place since the 1930s where both the dominant Social Democrats and the opposition on the right were broadly in agreement that economic growth == good, and nuclear was a part of that. There was a referendum in the early 80s where the alternatives were classical Swedish: Yes, No, and "No, but we wait a few years".

Decades have passed, and now being pro-nuclear is very right-coded, and while secretly the current Social Democrats are probably happy that we're supposed to get more electrical power, there's political hay to make opposing the racist shitheads. Add to that that financing this shit actually would mean more expensive electricity I doubt it will remain popular.

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