XCancel: https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1900247885142434220
Context: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115
If I had a nickel for every “metafictional” “short” “story” a promptbro shat into existence on Twitter, I’d have two nickels. That’s not much, but its two nickels too fucking many.
To be clear, I would be impressed with a dog that wrote the same story, but only because it was a dog.
Lol
is yud lurking sneerclub? This is uncharacteristically succinct
yud’s induction into the ranks of sneerclub is going to get very complicated when he gets to the part where he has to vow to shove Eliezer Yudkowsky into a locker on sight
come now we all know he’ll make a 37000 word ship of theseus fanfic to try get around this
Of course he is. It is me, im Yudocus.
im Yudocus
I just read this in the same way as
hadoukenand now I can’t unhear
tbf two nickels is billions ahead of genai sector profits so far
If someone asked me to write a metafictional short story, I would simply not.
I consider this a valuable lesson from my college education.
If someone asked me to write a metafictional short story, I would simply not.
Six word metafictional story:
“Write a metafictional short story.” “No.”Going to write an llm that in 5% of the cases tell people asking the question ‘no’ or starts to argue with them. Just to mess with the “it is self aware” people.
(Im kidding here, it would ruin those peoples mental health, and as people would not believe you after you reveal the trick (see ELIZA), it would make our own lives worse).
Lol, Altman’s AI generated purple prose slop was so bad even Eliezer called it out (as opposed to make a doomer-hype point):
Perhaps you have found some merit in that obvious slop, but I didn’t; there was entropy, cliche, and meaninglessness poured all over everything like shit over ice cream, and if there were cherries underneath I couldn’t taste it for the slop.
the cherries metaphor hinges on him willingly having eaten shit covered ice cream
Hey, no kink-shaming.
“No kink-shaming!”
“But I’m talking about Rationalists.”
“… OK, one kink-shaming.”
Also, Yud’s kink is literally rape1, isn’t it? Role playing non-consensual situations is fine and all, but this is a subculture where reporting sexual harassment is considered a possible infohazard2, and surely the utilitarian calculus in on the side of letting rationalists who do important work on existential risks have a go at you, imagine how many multiplujillion far future virtual entities of minimum moral status that might save.
Fuck a cult.
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He’s openly declared himself a sexual sadist and writes stuff like this, and also math pets.
spoiler
In this case, in Ziz’s previous interactions with central community leaders, these leaders encouraged Ziz to seriously consider that, for various reasons including Ziz’s willingness to reveal information (in particular about the statutory rapes alleged by miricult.com in possible worlds where they actually happened), she is likely to be “net negative” as a person impacting the future. An implication is that, if she does not seriously consider whether certain ideas that might have negative effects if spread (including reputational effects) are “infohazards”, Ziz is irresponsibly endangering the entire future, which contains truly gigantic numbers of potential people.
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