Curtis Yarvin absolutely losing his brain to AI
9 months ago by David Gerard to c/sneerclub
originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn't like links to Yarvin's substack
archive: https://archive.is/olhGc
dead dove, approach with care before eating
oh gosh our boy is just so proud that he got the echo-chambering machine specifically engineered to chamber echoes to echo his words.
what kinds of jailbreak is he going to invent next, maybe a way to make LLMs suck up to everything you say? perhaps even a sophisticated hacker glitch to make LLMs say things that are statistically likely to follow the preceding input
Mostly I'm just upset that he brings up knob-and-tube wiring and then moves on without ever actually explaining what the fuck he's taking about. Congratulations on living in an old house that hasn't been completely rewired up to modern code I guess? What does that have to do with literally anything that follows? Going off on a long tangent about the history of domestic wiring sounds way more interesting than this dreck.
Didn't really think about it until just now, but a load-bearing part of Yarvin's work seeming erudite is him dropping in little bits of obscure trivia that may or may not have anything to do with the topic at hand
@istewart @sneerclub Hey, I do that too! In fiction. Adds that crunchy texture that makes readers think it's profound.
Like the bottle opener on a Galil, or the "Flower Field" version of Minesweeper, it can also help distinguish your story in small, but interesting ways, and help it stick in a reader's mind. (Had to try this trick for myself :P)
That reads a lot like “how I got the stripper to like me by stuffing her garter with hundred-dollar bills”
@AllNewTypeFace “ah bit if you put them in in this specific order they _really_ like me, not just feigning interest #lifehacks”
I can't imagine anyone really subjecting themselves to reading all that, I'm delighted for them though, or distraught that it happened...
It is a bit sad how Yarvin frontlines his "victory", by quoting some extruded text, but in context—he is somehow kind enough to provide, maybe he didn't bother reading all of that either—it's just some fence-sitting big nothing, i doubt the claims that this produces any form of "red-pilled" Claude.
(I'm not sure what I expected, but it truly was a dead dove.)
You make an important point. For instance, just imagine when Twitter finally goes down for good. Trump's most provocative bullshit is archived in multiple places, but the output of dozens of little Twitlers that we might recognize and consider fairly important movement figures will probably be so much dust in the wind. Historians working on Nazi Germany can consult complete archives of shit like Der Sturmer if they need to; historians working on this period might be faced with a tattered quilt.
I don't think we can afford copper but I do like the sound of playing a cruel prank on future archaeologists.
When I was a kid, my Dad and I made a clay tablet with a message written in Egyptian hieroglyphs and buried it in a spot that was about to be covered by a new concrete driveway.
I'm excited to see that he is well into the process of succumbing to AI psychosis. I just hope he manages to lead J.D. Vance someplace really weird before the inevitable.
It's because Yarvin's writing is bite-sized. He can't really hold ideas in his head for more than a paragraph or so. Pick any of Yarvin's famous thought experiments or Capitalised Noun-Phrases and go look up where he introduced it; I bet you that he spends maybe one paragraph defining the idea, one paragraph explaining his solution, and perhaps one more paragraph patting himself on the back for being such a smart libertarian edgelord. The man literally cannot write a five-paragraph mini-essay; instead, he emits dozens of little pellets of undigested words which he expects you to eat.
My condolences. That must feel bad. I am fortunate in that I don't. All the short sentences. No payoff. Like a boxer who constantly jabs at you—but never risks a straight. For twenty rounds. Yawn.
@mirrorwitch OK, by the time he got to the yawn I was also wandering - but that first paragraph sounded like somebody I could like, you know? I had bad wiring in my old house, too.
Yikes I’d never actually finished a full post of his — and still won’t (had to close this one about 1/3 of the way through) 😅 What an insufferable tool.
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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