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6·2 days agoNuclear has been a running sore in Swedish politics since the late 70s. Opposition to it represented the reaction to the classic employer-employee class detente in place since the 1930s where both the dominant Social Democrats and the opposition on the right were broadly in agreement that economic growth == good, and nuclear was a part of that. There was a referendum in the early 80s where the alternatives were classical Swedish: Yes, No, and “No, but we wait a few years”.
Decades have passed, and now being pro-nuclear is very right-coded, and while secretly the current Social Democrats are probably happy that we’re supposed to get more electrical power, there’s political hay to make opposing the racist shitheads. Add to that that financing this shit actually would mean more expensive electricity I doubt it will remain popular.
Here’s a blog post I found via HN:
Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility
Author works on ML for DeepMind but doesn’t seem to be an out and out promptfondler.
So state-owned power company Vattenfall here in Sweden are gonna investigate building “small modular reactors” as a response to government’s planned buildout of nuclear.
Either Rolls-Royce or GE Vernova are in the running.
Note that this is entirely dependent on the government guaranteeing a certain level of revenue (“risk sharing”), and of course that that level survives an eventual new government.
Deep cut, I love it!
TIL some rats have started a literal monastery to try to defeat the robot god with good ole religion (well, Zen buddhism)
here’s a mildly critical view that apparently still believes the approach has legs
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ENCNHyNEgvz9oo9rr/briefly-on-maple-and-the-broader-community
I note in passing that there seems to be a mild upsurge in religious-friendly posts on LW lately.
Michael Hiltzik in LATimes: “Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash”
Fun quote:
The rest of [AI 2027], mapping a course to late 2027 when an AI agent “finally understands its own cognition,” is so loopily over the top that I wondered whether it wasn’t meant as a parody of excessive AI hype. I asked its creators if that was so, but haven’t received a reply.
He seems to state that after the abolition of slavery, less of the profits from a unit time of labor accrued to the owners of the land in question. The reasons for this is of course a mystery.
Not sure why this “member of technical staff at METR” felt the need to post about the lowered productivity of Black people in the southern US states after slavery was abolished. I’m sure it’s nothing.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zr37dY5YPRT6s56jY/thomas-kwa-s-shortform?commentId=iwGgqsmpY6Tcex5je
you say “neo-luddite” as if that’s a bad thing
Also “orate” is a fucking verb
Good news everyone! Someone with a SlackSlub has started a series countering the TESCREAL narrative.
He (c’mon, it’s a guy) calls it “R9PRESENTATIONALism”
It stands for
- Relational
- 9P
- Postcritical
- Personalist
- Praxeological
- Psychoanalytic
- Participatory
- Performative
- Particularist
- Poeticist
- Positive/Affirmationist
- Reparative
- Existentialist
- Standpoint-theorist
- Embodied
- Narrativistic
- Therapeutic
- Intersectional
- Orate
- Neosubstantivist
- Activist
- Localist
I see no reason why this catchy summary won’t take off!
JFC
Agency and taking ideas seriously aren’t bad. Rationalists came to correct views about the COVID-19 pandemic while many others were saying masks didn’t work and only hypochondriacs worried about covid; rationalists were some of the first people to warn about the threat of artificial intelligence.
First off, anyone not entirely into MAGA/Qanon agreed that masks probably helped more than hurt. Saying rats were outliers is ludicrous.
Second, rats don’t take real threats of GenAI seriously - infosphere pollution, surveillance, autopropaganda - they just care about the magical future Sky Robot.
It always struck me as hilarious that the EA/LW crowd could ever affect policy in any way. They’re cosplaying as activists, have no ideas about how to move the public image needle other than weird movie ideas and hope, and are literally marinated in SV technolibertarianism which sees government regulation as Evil.
There’s a mini-freakout over OpenAI deciding to keep GPT-4o active, despite it being more “sycophantic” than GPT-5 (and thus more likely to convince people to do Bad Things) but there’s also the queasy realization that if sycophantic LLMs is what brings in the bucks, nothing is gonna stop LLM companies from offering them. And there’s no way these people can stop it, because they’ve made the deal that LLM companies are gonna be the ones realizing that AI is gonna kill everyone and that’s never gonna happen.
Using the term “Antichrist” as a shorthand for “global stable totalitarianism” is A Choice.
You know stuff is bad if the margins aren’t “low” or “razor-thin” but “very negative”.
The entire business idea is dumb. Yes we will pay retail for access to models run by companies also offering the same products that we do, but we’ll make up for it in volume?
Guess either term hasn’t started, or his gig as phil prof is some sort of right-wing sinecure. Dude has a lot of time on his hands.
FWIW I’d say banning a poster for including slop image in a 3rd party article is a bit harsh, but what would Reddit be without arbitrary draconian rules? A normal person would note this, accept the 3 day ban, and maybe avoid the sub in future or avoid including slop. The fact he flew off his handle this much is very very funny though.
Most inhabitants of Iran would dislike being called Arabs… but I guess the lazy racists are just using it as a shorthand for “brown people who are Muslim”
Is Hughes legit, and is this the 3rd time’s the charm when it comes to linking to substacks here? ;)
Even if quantum computing isn’t snake oil, I have a hard time seeing how pushing it can be as large a market as social media. Web3/NFTs and LLMs are riding on that particular bizmodel coattail. Investors can see “oh yeah 200M monthly subscribers for ChatGPT” and map that to FB and come up with numbers that translate to VC money. I fail to see how quantum fits into that