I will assert again that ~nobody who claims that prompting is a skilled practice also offers a guide to how to develop that skillset. And it would be effectively the same claim as having cracked the use of English as a computer programming language, so it should be pretty easy to produce that guide, right? Anthropic should have this shit front and center! First clickable link on their front page!

uwu pls don't take away my sense of technological progress - it is the only thing that gives meaning to my life and culture

A lot of them fail to grasp how rightwing they (rationalists) actually are.

When I first encountered people trying to expand upon the Mark Fisher interpretation of hauntology, a few years ago, I thought they were perhaps overreaching. But after a few more years of observation, now I no longer think so. The rationalist project isn't really about predicting the future, and perhaps never really has been. Its conservative essence is to enshrine and protect a certain, mainly pop-cultural, framework about what the future should look like, and events are now passing that framework by. It only gets stranger from here.

I have more hope for putting serious pressure on my middle-of-the-road Dem rep. The district here only really turned Dem around 20 years ago thanks to the influx of Bay Area bedroom-community commuters, but there are still plenty of families around who immigrated as ag workers. So he already felt a degree of pressure, but now I feel like urging him to get on board with properly punishing the very worst Trump excesses might (might!) not be an empty gesture anymore.

I don’t understand why anyone would think this would ever be possible for LLMs.

Yes, as I understand it, inference requires strictly less computational capacity than training; it's just that a training setup can be turned around and run inference sessions massively in parallel. Just because you can run inference doesn't mean you can accomplish a training run. Unless there's some rationalist super-computer-science I've been missing this whole time...

damn, I thought my sneers were on point, but clearly I must up my vip game. seems like boots optimized for rapid heel-turn vipping may be the meta

Kurzweil actually liked the warp 10 lizard sex episode -- pass it on

Nitpicking, but at what point do we start calling it race pseudoscience? Letting the creeps have even a tiny bit of legitimacy is too much, especially as mainstream outfits are working overtime to legitimize them.

On the other hand, bombing foreign data centers, likely located in densely populated urban areas, would be justified and morally upstanding if it seems like they might be incarnating the imaginary computer god! I'm glad we have such a nuanced thinker guiding our modern morality.

"Leaking rationalist-evidence-bits" is an unexpectedly top-tier euphemism for the aftermath of digesting Wendy's chili

How interesting, a volcel who only thinks he’s an incel. Many such cases

The Hollywood bankruptcy auctions in a few years are gonna be lit