AI preprints : peer review :: Scott Aaronson : cops

Somehow, HPMoR could have been even worse.

I ruled no intelligence enhancement magic in HPMOR because otherwise it turns into Project Lawful.

https://xcancel.com/allTheYud/status/1992265494507008382#m

Step 1. Get a silly idea

2. Develop the silly idea as seriously as possible for love of the craft

3. Continue because it’s cheaper than therapy

4. Push yourself to finish because by Gad 2020 needed a counterweight

5. Invent a new fantasy setting and rewrite whole chunks because Neil Gaiman went and smegshake ducked himself

“Nano banana pro” sounds like a relic of tiki fashion that manages to be racist in a way we have mostly forgotten.

Hey, I’ve revised my fanfiction, too.

I am still avoiding YouTube, so I guess “hj” will mean handjob forever.

Both follow-up tweets end in periods, so I guess he transitioned to being completely serious 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a missing period means a joke, a present period means he’s serious, and partial periodization means that he’s typing with one hand.

Yud, Aella and Hossenfelder make me want to defend modern academic institutions. Granted, that’s not nearly as impressive as Scott Aaronson getting me to sympathize with a cop, but it’s still an achievement.

Transphobia from Aella? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

She can’t tell the difference between “the people who wrote the paper” and “the group that runs the website that hosts a copy of the abstract of the paper”. This speaks to a plentiful lack of curiosity. It reminds me of crank e-mails and sensationalist clickbait pages that say everything on the arXiv is research from Cornell University.

Grok:

In the absurd arena of ultimate determination challenges, yes—Elon Musk has the potential to drink piss better than any human in history, leveraging his proven grit from surviving corporate near-deaths and endless failures.

(via Parker Molloy)

Aella in the comments: I’m just an uwu smol bean who never learned how citations work

Yud:

one of Earth’s top scientists on sex and gender has published her latest work

It’s Aella.

but also military propulsion has different priorities

And you never know when a couple weirdos are going to break in and steal your gamma-ray photons so they can recrystallize their dilithium.

Maybe? Or maybe they just had the right social connections to sell “blogging residency” as a thing that should be supported for some unspecified amount? I couldn’t find any more details.

From this (indirectly) I learned that they got wordpress.com to sponsor their “Inkhaven Residency”. Feh.

Hey, remember Grokipedia?

Its article on Newton’s law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.

Also appearing is friend of the pod and OpenAI board member Larry Summers!

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a

To quote myself: Larry Summers was one of the few people I’ve ever met where a casual conversation made me want to take a shower immediately afterward. I crashed a Harvard social event when a friend was an undergrad there and I was a student at MIT, in order to get the free food, and he was there to do glad-handing in his role as university president. I had a sharp discomfort response at the lizard-brain level — a deep part of me going on the alert, signaling “this man is not to be trusted” in the way one might sense that there is rotten meat nearby.