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by throw4847285 5mo ago
You mean the Harvard MBA right? He means the Harvard MBA?
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
When challenged by the dictum that people often confuse nature with history, the response is to abandon arguments from human nature and replace them with a fantasy caveman land. Caveman land implies human nature without needing to make an a
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
But what if the only real way to break through avoidance patterns is to stop avoiding? What if the tradeoffs of LLMs are instant gratification and further atrophying of your executive functions? I have gained a paranoid suspicion that our c
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
> (Myself, I'm in a strange position with doppelgängers, because I simultaneously want real human connection and keep getting disappointed with many of the real humans). I don't think you're in a strange position at all. Y
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
Who put on a fake folksy affect, so he clearly can't have been an elitist.
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
They've been rendered neurotic, or their neurotic tendencies have become dominant through habituation, or they have developed anti-social behaviors in response to a combination of temperament and a society that is unable to promote pro
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
I have friends and family, but staring at a computer 8 hours or more a day is corrosive to my mental health. And when I am in an office, I do interact with people, in meaningless and meaningful ways, whether I am forced to or not. I know th
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by throw4847285 5mo ago
Kafka would find your attempt to explain his story with AI hilarious.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
I guess I appreciate the explicit realpolitik of it all, but I'm not sure I buy your argument. The US is the world's current dominant global empire, and unlike other leftists, I don't believe this is inherently a bad thing. B
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
You are right that there are a large number of top AI people who are very concerned with the ramifications of AI. I would say there are two core issues. The first is that these people have often been indistinguishable from the ambitious and
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
This is what happens when the people building your society's advanced technology have no theory of mind. Too much science fiction, not enough human interaction. The Social Network is looking more and more prophetic. When your only ambi
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
A degenerating research programme.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
"Consensus science" is science.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
You're underestimating how gross it was to me at first.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
All over this thread people are saying things like, "this doesn't describe somebody who is anti-social, it describes a narcissist" or "I'm not anti-social, I am asocial." And it makes me think about internet di
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Then why are you posting here? You must require some kind of social interaction. Is arguing with people on HN meeting your needs, or are the alternatives all too scary and alienating to consider? In general, I am skeptical when anybody says
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Oh so you actually are a nihilist in the sense that Nietzsche meant. That's too bad.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
All of my Russian friends briefly become terrified when they pass by a mirror, and have to regain their composure.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
If you keep drinking them, you'll likely acquire a taste. I didn't used to like any artificial sugar flavors, but now I've grown accustomed to them.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
You don't sound much like a nihilist to me.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Well in this case it was made by and for Japanese speakers.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
You say that now, but once we perfect AMBAC technology and accidentally release large numbers of Minovsky particles, we will need humanoid combat vehicles to fight our battles!
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
One common personality disorder I see is being extremely defensive when encountering any discussion of human psychology. This comes from a deep psychological fragility. Classic OAD (Obvious Asshole Disorder)
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Or that even the people who believe they are making meaningful text on the internet, because of the constraints of the medium, are simply socializing in a different way.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Service guarantees citizenship!
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
Is there an equivalent to Betteridge's law of headlines that applies in situations like this? When the title of an article is "Don't do this" the comments are entirely people doing that.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
This kind of black and white moral thinking is corrosive to one's intelligence. You're allowed to talk about who benefits from massive society change and who suffers. You are allowed to talk about the ways that technology is imple
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
A statement that can be reversed onto the speaker without effort is meaningless. It has no content. It just means, "I am rational and you are not." Ok, then.
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
You missed my point. The author argued that gameplay loops are a holdover from quarter munching arcade machines. I used Rogue as proof that this is at best an incomplete account. I simply mentioned Pac-Man as the beginning of the arcade boo
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by throw4847285 6mo ago
The fact that this article does not mention the word "roguelike" once is quite telling. The argument that gameplay loops are a relic of arcades falls flat when you realize that Rogue came out in 1980, the same year as Pac-man. The

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