Status of my evening:

Post a link to my personal website, find out a minute later that it’s “down for maintenance”, try to log into my web hosting dashboard (Siteground) to figure out what’s going on, it rejects the 2FA code it sends me, then the 2FA code suddenly works, then the dashboard is full of hard-selling slop features that I will gouge out my left eye with a spork and skull-fuck the hole with the blunt end before I will use… My blog seems to be back now, though?

Fuck, I need to migrate my blog. If there is even anywhere to migrate it to.

And the bonus advantage of an academic community of which a sizable fraction is willing to burn leaded gasoline to truck the child laborers into the sweatshop to paint asbestos with radium, if it’ll get them arXiv posts.

OpenAI:

While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/post/3muznyls6vk2v

lmao what the fuck do you mean it’s unlikely but you can’t rule it out. do you not know what you’re training your models on? are you guys unaware of what’s going on in your own operation? does openai research not have any knowledge of what data they train their models on?

Previously in Hossenfelder’s appearances on awful dot systems:

https://awful.systems/post/5317207/8451899

https://awful.systems/post/5930794/9070600

When they are using science fiction as a venue to be weirdly horny, what are they weirdly horny for, and in how many star systems do they know the age-of-consent laws?

Recycling previous joke: https://awful.systems/post/6373632/9569779

Whereas the successful polyamorists know that humans evolved in order to use calendar software.

We don’t need more of mathematics to look like the Four Color Theorem (“proved”, but with no insight gained), with the added problems that the “proofs” are now far more laborious to check even for technical correctness, theorem-proving software is less reliable, and oh yeah, we’re holding the population of Memphis to the exhaust pipe of a diesel bus to make it work.

“Polyamory” is the excuse that abusive men use now the way they used “free love” in the 1960s. I know people who make the poly thing work; they’re honest and communicative, traits that I do not associate with lesswrongs.

I think his eyebrows are trying to do the universal quantifier ∀

a more disciplined, less horny version of Yudkowsky

error, error, does not compute

Yep. Cf. the pervasive idea that the true fundamental purpose of intelligence is casting Persuasion spells.

I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I’m more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:

E: … right after I graduated from undergrad, I went on a date in San Francisco with a Harvey Mudd alum who revealed to me over the course of the date, which is at like a fancy prohibition style whiskey bar. That part was cool. You had to make a reservation. So I thought that was, I was like, that’s a good sign. That’s really that’s cool of him. He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. And I said, Oh, well, I don’t want to brag, but I’ve written a pretty highly acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises fanfic, and he broke in and said, It’s not a fanfic.

A: Were they saying their musical wasn’t a fanfic, or that rationality wasn’t a fanfic?

E: The musical was not a fanfic. And I didn’t know what to say to that. […] And then he also, this is the guy who he tried to get me drunk when I didn’t want to. Uh, super rational. Very rational. Yeah, rational. I want to have sex with this girl and she doesn’t want to have sex with me. The rational thing to do is to change one of those conditions, and I can’t not want to have sex with her. Um, and told me that he did not ask his female friends for dating advice because if you’re a hunter, you ask a hunter and not a deer. These were the same guys. He was the same guy.

And when Bluesky rediscovered HPMoR, we got this from a certain Paulrus of West Bumblefrick:

I’m sorry to say this, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that if you’re over the age of 17 and into Harry Potter, you’re either evil or susceptible to being manipulated by evil people.

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Quoth the blog post:

I have a YouTube channel where I mostly get LLMs to write albums and make them into music videos.

… the fuck did I just read?

UC Berkeley Law:

This policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default. It provides students with the opportunity to develop the skills they need to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work by forbidding the use of AI for these purposes in connection with work submitted for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work for credit, thus providing students with the opportunity to develop and exercise their own fluency with legal English. […] The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content—into generative AI systems.

Varonis just had to add “autorun=1” to the address.

Oh, for the love of…

“Make me a sandwich.”

“No.”

“Make me a sandwich, autorun=1”

Word is that both Adam Conover and Carol Queen have backed out.