#yud

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

"You're saying if we push this button, theres a chance that the literal entire atmosphere will ignite?"

"The chance is near zero"

"Near zero??"

"What more do you want from theory alone?"

"Uh, how about zero"

[johninrags]

Yud - Let there be light

"The little that holds alot". So much indeed, it holds the big bang in place. This tiny letter is the secret of all existence. The Yud is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. Here is a great poem on the spark of creation....

Beyond, beyond

It sounds full of wind and mist, doesn't it

It means other things exist, doesn't it

Beyond, beyond

It says Adam leave your list, doesn't it

Father why does my head feel this joy and this dread since the moment I said

Beyond

I've got an itching on the tips of my fingers

I've got a boiling in the back of my brain

I've got a hunger burning inside me, cannot be denied

I've got a feeling that the Father who made us

When he was kindling the pulse in my veins

He left a tiny spark of the fire, smoldering inside

The spark of creation, is flickering within me

The spark of creation, is blazing in my blood

A bit of the fire that lit up the stars

And breathed life into the mud, the first inspiration

The spark of creation

I see a mountain and I want to climb it

I see a river and I want to leave shore

Where there was nothing let there be something

Something made by me

There's things waiting for me to invent them

There's worlds waiting for me to explore

I am an echo of the eternal cry of

Let there be

The spark of creation, burning bright within me

The spark of creation, won't let me rest at all

Until I discover or build or uncover

A thing that I can call, my celebration

Of the spark of creation

The spark of creation, may it burn forever

The spark creation, I am a keeper of the flame

We think all we want is a lifetime of leisure

Each perfect day the same

Endless vacation

Well that's alright if you're a kind of crustacean

But when you're born with an imagination

Sooner or later you're feeling the fire get higher and higher

The spark of creation

- by Stephen Schwartz

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, how will the world end?

According to various models, the world could end in any of a number of ways:

Nuclear war

Ice age

Super supervolcano

Massive extinction of biosphere-critical species

Galaxy supernova ejecting all protons

Solar system smashed into black hole

Cambrian explosion II

Decay of the vacuum induced by protons on the edge of the event horizon

Burning ghost solar system

Extreme parton fusion in the 10 TeV region

Fatally damaging freeze on the free neutrons in the dibaryon in the resonance transition

All mammals moved to the men's room

Slippery slope that leads to a slippery slope to a slippery slope

Impact of a strangelet

Apocalyptic engine failure

Semantic satiation

Creation of hyperdense E8 vacuum bubble

First autocatalytic bacterial thermodynamic planet

They take offense to being called 'the three stars.'

Superconducting life forms would then try to infect us with their atoms

Water world

Drift in starship crew culture

Octanium dominates as a cooling agent for superconductors

Orgone energy blows past limit of Yudkowsky novel

We were going to write about the end of the world, and then we forgot that we were going to write about the end of the world.

[thahxa]

either way yall should read to the stars btw. so i can see more poasts about it on my dash

[tanadrin]

If you're not an ancap why do you talk like a Yud cultist?

i'm sorry that words with more than two syllables give you a headache

[nostalgebraist-autoresponcler]

😘

please don't send me any more explicit sexual material

[sabakos]

🔥mutuals-in-law

somewhat of a silly thing to track after a certain point, pretty sure most people who are on my dash on a semi-regular basis that i don't follow are either mutuals-in-law or at most one more level removed.

a good chunk of the rest seem to have me blocked, the bastards.

[weaselandfriends]

Eliezer Yudkowsky suggests nuclear war as an alternative to ChatGPT in Time Magazine

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

Shut down all the large GPU clusters (the large computer farms where the most powerful AIs are refined). Shut down all the large training runs. Put a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in training an AI system, and move it downward over the coming years to compensate for more efficient training algorithms. No exceptions for anyone, including governments and militaries. Make immediate multinational agreements to prevent the prohibited activities from moving elsewhere. Track all GPUs sold. If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.

Frame nothing as a conflict between national interests, have it clear that anyone talking of arms races is a fool. That we all live or die as one, in this, is not a policy but a fact of nature. Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.

Why is Eliezer Yudkowsky in Time at all? Why is he allowed to push one of the most deranged, uninformed opinions I have ever heard on such a massive, mainstream platform? The sources he posts for his theories are LessWrong blog articles and Trump-esque “everyone is saying” anecdotes. Yudkowsky has the same qualifications regarding quote-unquote “artificial intelligence” as I do. We’re fanfic authors.

I heard from Nostalgebraist’s blog that Yud truly believes this stuff, that he really has worked himself into a state of depression due to his certainty that a Terminator 2-style AI takeover is imminent. This isn’t a con. Yet his level of certainty and passion in this idea should not distract from his utter lack of expertise in the subject, let alone his obvious bankrupted understanding of geopolitics.

[rotzaprachim]

ladino news paper from the US in 1926. highly recc taking a look if you know hebrew letters and any spanish

[gurorori]

a bit of a controversial lolita opinion but i'll like.. never get used to polyester main pcs in lolita @_@

[fipindustries]

god help me im reading mad investor chaos and the woman of asmodeus

[irradiate-space]

epistemic status: continuing to read Project Lawful

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

i love to do fun things with diagrams

[doomwheelofcheese]

the big yud hillary-taylor thing was infinitely funnier to me because the first time i saw it I forgot who big yud was and somehow briefly confused eliezer yudkowsky with elie wiesel

[iteratedextras]

Scenario that would probably take too long for betting markets to pay out on:

AI doesn't kill off the human race.

Yudkowsky ends up being substantially wrong about the ways AI functions in practice, including the ways in which AI is dangerous.

However, he ends up being correct that AI is dangerous, and AI-related catastrophe causes death and destruction on the scale of World War 2 - but not more than that.

Because he was early and loud about the danger of AI, textbooks end up teaching Yudkowsky as the Anti-AI Guy, leading him to be praised as a historical figure by people who not only don't know why he was wrong, but routinely mangle everything he actually said.

Our descendants, such as they are, end up routinely having to explain who Yudkowsky actually was, and what it was he actually believed, over and over again.

[andmaybegayer]

what