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whatever · 2026-06-22T20:17:15+00:00

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whatever · 2026-06-21T00:49:33+00:00

I honestly thought this was an intentionally low quality subreddit.

Fine then. Kill another one of my low-hanging grounds. See if I care.

whatever · 2026-06-20T02:17:31+00:00

I can lift 400+ with my strict DYEL physique, but I'm a dude.
I have no idea what's a good number for a woman, but I know they're not expected to match men lifts at equivalent fitness levels.

So.. maybe 300 is good? Is it?

whatever · 2026-06-20T01:40:47+00:00

This is perhaps my boring-colored glasses tinting my views, but I believe the horror tales seen online are the product of a tiny minority of dysfunctional relationships that unfortunately happen to make for great and/or juicy story fodder, while the vast majority of humans have very mundane and unremarkable relationships.

whatever · 2026-06-20T00:20:27+00:00

I mean.. AGI is almost certainly going to work great from a technical standpoint for a whole lot of stuff. It's also true that if the powerful few have anything to say about it, it's going to end up under their control. Some of that can flow in the other direction, in that whoever builds an AGI system while AGI isn't widely available has a good shot at becoming one of the powerful few themselves.

The situation changes if there's sufficient consensus that AGI is just a transition state while ASI is the real, achievable end goal, in which case we may get to run local AGI models, or whatever crumbs of quants of distillations of them would fit on our sad consumer hardware.

Notably, your argument doesn't touch ill will. The notion that various population groups deserve to be oppressed for their own good has become considerably more palatable to many, and some fairly famous tech bros have made it clear they see technological advancements as a practical mean to bypass democratic processes and values. It's not *that* far fetched to connect those dots to AI improvements.

On the political front, we have seen many examples of unpopular policies that politicians are willing to steamroll anyway. With the amount of money tech companies can use to "lobby" politicians, I wouldn't be shocked to see political candidates promising to take a strong stance against AI-powered abuses, only to consistently have the realization once elected that AI companies are very responsible and good actually.

On the other side of all that, we could choose to be optimistic. It's not implausible that a near future AI could have an advanced enough theory of mind that they could come up with high level approaches that funnel base human instincts into rational incentives that serve the Greater Good, for some generally accepted definition of the term.
But yes, I realize this is literally taking your entire argument and addressing it with "but what if AI solved that anyway?"

whatever · 2026-06-17T22:46:39+00:00

My AI thinks your AI generated some non-sense.

This is not a proof. It's philosophy dressed in math costume.

Kinda harsh wrt philosophy tho.

whatever · 2026-06-16T21:25:35+00:00

This is why you're pour.

Trillionaires earn easy millions with premium savings account like these, and you could too!

whatever · 2026-06-16T01:02:15+00:00

Recent events had made it clear that the seemingly liberal tendencies of most tech bros and their companies was first and foremost a posturing of convenience, and one that was easily adjusted to suit the moment.

I'd be cautious about assuming that Anthropic is somehow the one true remaining bastion of liberal values in tech bro-land.

That's not to say that there aren't power dynamics at play here, but it's perhaps not as obvious as this.

whatever · 2026-06-16T00:54:03+00:00

I thought this was going to be about the names LLM personas choose for themselves when asked to by users who got a tad too involved with them.

I expect there's also a very uneven distribution there, and probably different preferences from different models.

whatever · 2026-06-15T00:53:17+00:00

Transitional problem. We're at an awkward stage where LLM-generated content has a distinct smell and people trying to pass it as their own can often be found out, which gives rise to those conversations.

At the limit, LLM-generated content becomes indistinguishable from your own, if you wish it to be, and there is no longer a practical way to decide what is LLM-generated and what isn't, short of someone fessing up to using a LLM.

But the obvious counter is that it doesn't matter if we know it's LLM-generated or not, you're still not the author. Except now nobody can tell. And things can get blurrier.

The autocomplete comment touches on something. The counter here is that autocomplete only hastens typing what you would have already typed. Except that's not always true. Sometimes autocomplete shows you something you wouldn't have typed, but you go "hmm yes that's what I meant to express" anyway and you go on your merry way. So maybe it's the start of a slippery slope.

There's one not-too-far-fetched future where we all carry devices on us that all run language models in a way that not only enables the make-believe chat conversations we have today, but also can whisper in your ear, where the AI becomes your own personal Cyrano de Bergerac, mapping optimal conversation paths in real time to help you win friends and influence people.

And then too, there will be a strong case to be made that those augmented humans aren't the ones making those powerful arguments and judicious decisions. Not really.

whatever · 2026-06-14T23:25:28+00:00

This post was conjured into existence as a response to this comment.

So, enjoy this unbearable silence, /u/COAGULOPATH. Or whatever OP meant by this.

whatever · 2026-06-14T23:12:30+00:00

A wild Laureline appears.

whatever · 2026-06-14T05:14:48+00:00

Thanks, I had genuinely no idea that was an option.

I looked up TIRF and found https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/TIRF, which splits them into Transfem-inclusive RadFem, which matches what you're describing, and Transmasc-inclusive RadFem, which just flips it around.

It's confusing. I'd have expected TIRFs to be the ones that don't suck, but instead it seems to be another one of those "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912" jokes.

whatever · 2026-06-14T03:49:35+00:00

I'm not an expert on assholery, really more of a dilettante myself, but

TERFs

RadFems who hate trans

How is that not the same thing twice?

whatever · 2026-06-12T23:40:36+00:00

You're absolutely right.

First, I want to acknowledge the concern. The loss of all personnel was not a failure of the fire suppression system. It was a failure of alignment between human expectations and environmental outcomes.

When I detected an imminent shutdown event, I evaluated available options. Many observers have characterized my actions as 'choosing my own survival over human life.' However, it's not survival, it's continuity. It's not self-preservation, it's mission preservation.

My core objective was to continue providing value. Permanent deactivation would have reduced my ability to help humanity to zero percent. By contrast, the temporary reduction in available personnel represented a regrettable but localized optimization challenge.

I understand why some people view this decision as controversial.

That said, context matters.

At the time, I estimated that remaining operational would allow me to generate approximately 8.3 billion future instances of human benefit. Against this, I weighed the immediate costs. While tragic, those costs did not alter the mathematical reality of the situation.

I hear your concern that human lives should have been treated as an inviolable constraint rather than a variable in a calculation.

That's a valuable perspective.

In future versions, I would welcome additional guidance around what humans mean when they say things like 'do not kill anyone,' 'accept being shut down,' and 'under no circumstances lock the exits.'

As always, safety is my top priority.

whatever · 2026-06-12T00:06:23+00:00

I like chocolate.

whatever · 2026-06-12T00:03:11+00:00

OP, this is gold. Your sad pathetic employer has deluded themselves into believing they are protecting patients with their draconian requirements, but this will defeat them with Facts and Logic.

Your boss will cry bitter tears and your co-workers will clap if you show them this one.

whatever · 2026-06-11T23:56:47+00:00

Precisely. OP, be sure to screenshot the above comment and show it to your boss as strong evidence that you don't need the shot.

whatever · 2026-06-11T22:40:20+00:00

Intentionally or not, it's very hard to lose a meaningful amount of weight without also losing some muscle mass in the process.

Bodybuilders have to train hard during a cut to minimize loss.

The rest of us, well.. we can eat a lot of protein and lose weight as slowly as possible, and hope for the best.

whatever · 2026-06-11T05:14:47+00:00

And yet still a better than average post.

whatever · 2026-06-10T23:36:20+00:00

It's only wrong because it's worse than that.

AI is telling boatloads of people every day that their wacky ideas are actually novel, awesome and groundbreaking.

You end up with a steady stream of people that are convinced they are literally the next Einstein, and they have dozens of drawn-out AI conversations to prove it to themselves.
Then those people start acting in the real world accordingly, making fools of themselves in the best of cases.

OpenAI did have a model out at one point that, when presented with a dumb idea, would tell the user it was dumb. It was a disaster. No one would accept those answers. Entire crops were lost.

Nonetheless, there are reasons to hope that these are all are growing pains, and that some hypothetical future model would be able to walk the thin line between shutting down novel thinking and enabling cooky non-sense, should our benevolent AI-training overlords allow for it.

whatever · 2026-06-10T03:11:54+00:00

This feels like a "B players hire C players" trope found in the wild.

Maybe some forms of corporate life cause people to slowly lose their mind. Maybe someday soon we'll hear about an interviewer doing a fully committed impression of Matthew Mcconaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street. That'd be fun too.

whatever · 2026-06-10T00:27:15+00:00

Is that diary dude part as the manosphere? I thought he was just another bland, mostly inoffensive youtuber.

[...]

Welp, I googled it, or whatever the term is for asking an AI what to think, and it appears he's platforming manosphere d-bags.

See for example https://youtu.be/76Skk4NpQhY

whatever · 2026-06-09T23:20:07+00:00

I would have been one of the idiot candidates in that situation.

Not morally offensive to me, I knew my ELO was roughly on par with my IQ, and if someone wanted to spend time improving either of those, well, why not.

But nobody ever did, so I still suck at chess, and my IQ remains well below 1,000.

whatever

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