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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

it's a shame, because gender transition stuff is probably one of the most successful "human biohacking" type things in common use today, and it's also just... really cool. alas, bigotry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"We can transcend the limitations of our physical bodies via technology! Wait, no, not like that!"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I don't get is, ok, even granting the insane Eliezer assumption that LLMs can become arbitrarily smart and learn to reverse hash functions or whatever because it helps them predict the next word sometimes... humans don't entirely understand biology ourselves! How is the LLM going to acquire the knowledge of biology to know how to do things humans can't do when it doesn't have access to the physical world, only things humans have written about it?

Even if it is using its godly intelligence to predict the next word, wouldn't it only be able to predict the next word as it relates to things that have already been discovered through experiment? What's his proposed mechanism for it to suddenly start deriving all of biology from first principles?

I guess maybe he thinks all of biology is "in" the DNA and it's just a matter of simulating the 'compilation' process with enough fidelity to have a 100% accurate understanding of biology, but that just reveals how little he actually understands the field. Like, come on dude, that's such a common tech nerd misunderstanding of biology that xkcd made fun of it, get better material

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well all I know is I definitely trust the research and knowledge and informed-ness about biological sex of the person who uses the word "hermaphroditism" with regards to humans. Now that's a person who knows what they're talking about, I think to myself

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean they'll use an LLM instead of going to therapy too...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, my first thought was, what if you want to comment out code in this future? does that just not work anymore? lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely think the youths are stressed because of 'environmental pollution,' but not in the way this commenter means...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"We are told that technology is helping redistribute wealth from the common people to a small subset of extremely rich men. But, as an extremely rich man, I don't really understand why this is a bad thing? Technology seems pretty cool to me!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

since we both have the High IQ feat you should be agreeing with me, after all we share the same privileged access to absolute truth. That we aren’t must mean you are unaligned/need to be further cleansed of thetans.

They have to agree, it's mathematically proven by Aumann's Agreement Theorem!

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