The pink hair and piercings types generally have fertility below replacement so will not last.

Leave it to the inventor of acausal torture AI to understand cause and effect. Other highly meaningful statistical indicators of having few children might include measuring lenghts in feet, speaking Norwegian, wearing a kimono, working in AI research, using the word “nootropic” or having a passport from a wealthy post-industrialized country.

Since a number of people have claimed that this is #Fascism, I should note that I don’t think fascism is a good idea; the core problem is that fascism as it existed in the 20th century was fragile due to too much central control from a small number of powerful individuals.

Palingenetic schmalingenetic. We should simply have a decentralized majority voluntarily choosing to implement these dietary restrictions, arranged sexual partners, online censorship and whatever abridgement of religious freedom cuts down on “virtue signaling” in his mind.

I wonder if Roko has ever considered converting to Wahhabist Islam?

“The main problem with fascism is that it didn’t last” is not the convincing disavowal of fascism Roko thinks it is.

I think Sneer Club understands the Less Wrong worldview well enough. They just happen to reject it.

Wow, someone gets it.

Sites you visit can ask Chrome for your interests to show you ads.

Nifty. Let’s ask what my browser has to offer instead (Firefox + uBlock Origin).

Sites can not show you ads.

Hmm that’s a tough choice hmm.

When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.

They’ve gone from math pets to math woodland creatures now?

Here’s the pic in its full glory.

Tag yourself, I’m Testtomcels

This one from the same is also funny

I agree, except with the first sentence.

1. I don’t think a computer program has passed the Turing test without interpreting the rules in a very lax way and heavily stacking the deck in the bot’s favor.
2. I’d be impressed if a machine does something hard even if the machine is specifically designed to do that. Something like proving the Riemann hypothesis or actually passing an honest version of Turing test.

Jesus wept, that one deserves a thread of its own. I can’t remember the last time I winced this hard.

Any of… what?

Yea I don’t think the Turing test is that great for establishing genuine artificial intelligence, but I also maintain that current state of the art doesn’t even pass the Turing test to an intellectually honest standard and certainly didn’t in the 60s.