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I believe you, yes YOU, are capable of reading and understanding everything you want to read and understand.
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It’s worth noting that rail and radio also had bubbles- the underlying technology doesn’t need to be “bad” or fundamentally flawed for the financial speculation around it to become unsustainable and cause harmful economic consequences.
I like everything recommended above and in the current comments, so I’ll add more that weren’t mentioned although some deviate a bit from being “rationalist” focused:
Frostpunk
Shadows of Doubt
Tunic
A Hand With Many Fingers
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Return of the Obra Dinn
Immortality
I would throw Cyberpunk 2077 in there too actually, not so much for the mechanics as for the world and how the game invites you to engage with yourself.
https://x.com/btibor91/status/1994714152636690834
ChatGPT Android app 1.2025.329 beta includes new references to an “ads feature” with “bazaar content”, “search ad” and “search ads carousel”
Seems much simpler to assume that both ‘goyslop’ and ‘AI slop’ are derived from slop as in:
Slop is the common name for household food scraps
Slop is the common name for pigs’ animal feed
That KnowYourMeme article even says: ‘The term combines the terms “goyim,” a Jewish word for people who are not Jewish, and “slop,” a term often used to criticize food as disgusting.’
There are strong legal and PR and ‘ethical’ pressures to engage in such CYA behaviors and avoid blame.
Argument #4 in their rebuttal in one of their ongoing legal cases is, “Our TOS says you can’t use ChatGPT to commit suicide.”
If you haven’t already watched it, I think you would enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Kl-Ye0fz4
Removed the last section of things which have happened since April, because it was nothing new to anyone here, was mostly written by Claude, and didn’t matter anyway. The main thing is that copyright has been tested in courts a few times, to mixed results. Maybe I’ll do a copyright shenanigans timeline as my next post.
A potential answer to something special that carbon can do: time crystals.
GPT-4o can’t be kept around in its old form, it is too psychologically risky. I think that OpenAI is right about this from both an ethical and a business perspective. You can argue that the benefits are diffuse and the harms are concentrated, but I don’t think that works in practice. Some form of safeguards are needed.
My worry here is that they seem to be trying to spin these safety problems as being specific to 4o, instead of being fundamental to their entire business.
How was this created?
I’ll keep beating this drum: Everyone please read Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep.
Calling it “diagonalization” is distracting for me, since I associate that so much with a particular type of strategy for reasoning through proofs. “Encapsulation” feels like another potential word for what you’ve described, though I don’t think it’s ‘better’ in the sense of being more clear to the average listener. “Trapped in the Matrix” almost feels right, but I generally don’t like using fictional references, especially since we see how that can go weirdly like with ‘redpilling’.
But, it comes to mind because of the idea of being inside a system and yet being able to have an understanding of that system which is bigger than the system itself, even potentially letting you alter the system and thus foil the its plans. Even when you are ‘diagonalized’ or ‘encapsulated’ by an agent/system, that greater agent is still itself within a greater possibility space of all possible agents/systems.
I often use single quotes for ‘scare’ quotes, though not for any particular reason.
I also find the idea that the editor changed your punctuation from logical to illogical distressing and rude.
I love this idea, it feels like it would also work for a lot of non-fiction, and I could see this being a part of a traditional book club too.
Ooh nice! You reminded me of A Hand With Many Fingers, as well.
Every so often I come back to a daydream about an investigation game (think Her Story, Immortality, Gone Home, Digital: A Love Story, Return of the Obra Dinn, etc.) but with a premise like you’re in a small town and have access to a bunch of messy data from all over the place, mostly in Excel files but also receipts, security cam footage, maps, stuff like that.
Maybe you’re a a hacker or an AI that was able to gain illicit access to everything, but now you have to clean up and correlate everything without outside help (i.e. no ability to ask things like “Who is employee 731?”- either you figure it out or you don’t).
DnD.Sci comes pretty close, but I wonder if making it more messy and involving things besides just CSV tables and borrowing ideas from things like https://www.huntakiller.com/products/nancy-drew-mystery-at-magnolia-gardens lets one fit in a lot more rationality skills besides just data analysis.
Man, I would really like the news to stop feeling like it’s coming from the prologue of A Fire Upon the Deep.
Amtrack also travels fairly slowly.
CEOs don’t really “control” their companies in the way they like us to imagine; companies are partially autonomous.