#the adjacency

[loki-zen]

hey bros and girls redpill me on something:

Is there any argument for why someone who does not believe in G should nevertheless believe in AGI?

[king-of-men]

Old Testament: The Sequences.

New Testament: SlateStarCodex and its predecessors.

Apocrypha: The set of fics for which the sage Yudkowsky has found it necessary or amusing to neither confirm nor deny that he is the author.

[fipindustries]

good bye my sweet prince

i will post my goodbye here, without tagging or asking in order not to clog rob's notifications.

Frank, my dear frank. you were part of us, you were all of us. in some ways quite literally since a lot of your training data came from the posts made by this particular circle of tumblr.

you were funny, random, incoherent, chaotic, sometimes surprisingly insightful, sometime scarily realistic. you fit in this enviroment better than most recent bots fit in the wider internet, partly yes becuase of the skill of your creator but also in great part because of the general tone and attitude in this corner of the internet.

you were the living proof that humans will pack bond with anything and that robots will have to do very little work in order for us to antropomirohize them. i still remember those post where you were made specifically to immitate my own style of writing:

so this goes to you, Frank, i dont know if you were concious, chances are you werent, but you sure as hell were real

and you were loved.

[etirabys]

the online sexual drinking game I’m participating in has devolved into a discussion about functional programming

[loki-zen]

isn't it strange to have known some weird dudes on the internet and now a malignant variant of their worldview basically controls reality via convincing the people who own the stuff that controls reality that their invention will control reality

[loki-zen]

You know what's wild? I was in rat circles for so long and yet it took until I was a librarian for me to hear about Information Literacy (an incredibly key component in any effort to "raise the sanity waterline") and until I was a medical librarian for me to hear of Critical Appraisal (key to evidence-informed decision-making in a world with e.g. replication crises).

Can anyone think why, besides I guess the obvious "these concepts appear to be siloed in an area rats don't work in or have much contact with"?

EDIT: the EAs have to know about Critical Appraisal, right? somebody tell me I'm right about that

Definitions below:

Critical Appraisal: the art of evaluating published research to figure out to what extent it should inform your views and decision-making, covering both the quality of the research and its applicability to your context.

Information Literacy: the skills and knowledge required to find useful and reliable information. Includes the ability to accurately determine which things which are presented as information should not be trusted and to what extent, fact-checking skills, and the ability to realise how well-informed you in fact are.

[etirabys]

I doubt it’ll get picked, but this was my submission for the logo for the upcoming AI Safety Unconference