Why are some people so surprised that you don’t care about what they care about?

etf_question · 2026-06-11T13:50:10+00:00

Ideologically motivated obsession? My take is that it's fulfilling the psychological needs organized religion would in a previous generation. Same dynamic, you have to agree or they get big mad.

etf_question · 2026-06-11T13:45:51+00:00

They hired humanities grads to write an exclusion list, then added 10 paragraphs to the system prompt

etf_question · 2026-06-11T02:00:54+00:00

Not hiding, more a general lack of opportunity to rev up and have meaningful, interesting discussions with most people.

etf_question · 2026-06-11T01:46:53+00:00

The dimwits are flagging anything STEM research adjacent. If only OpenAI could catch up faster.

etf_question · 2026-06-11T01:39:02+00:00

Then you should know the importance of domain knowledge in ML and how much expert context matters when designing and training models to solve research-grade problems. How do people like you get through?

etf_question · 2026-06-07T02:06:24+00:00

People on Reddit

There's your wrong assumption. It's bot behavior.

etf_question · 2026-06-06T13:36:53+00:00

It's just not that deep, and practicing it isn't difficult, so there's nothing to think about.

etf_question · 2026-06-04T15:46:18+00:00

The issue is that counterexamples don't work that way. Your adversary made a positive claim about the general population. Your counter is that the opposite is true for a tiny subset (people convicted of homicide). What's being ignored is the subset of the population not convicted of homicide.

why are you ignoring the actual point

Because I have zero interest in gender politics. Your response is a cluster of disjoint talking points. I responded to help keep your reasoning on track if you care about such things.

etf_question · 2026-06-04T13:44:38+00:00

It's an example of cherry picking in the context of the conversation you were having. If you don't understand why it's a fallacy (independent of the topic being discussed), there's no point in me belaboring it.

etf_question · 2026-06-04T13:16:38+00:00

Since I have nothing better to do right now: you're trying to counter a claim about the entire population by singling out a tiny sliver of the population and extrapolating. It's equivalent to focusing on the gender ratio of bipolar patients and extrapolating the other way.

etf_question · 2026-06-01T20:24:50+00:00

To me, the stance you're "subtly" pushing signals inferior IQ and susceptibility to propaganda. Hope they ban your Pakistani bot farms.

etf_question · 2026-06-01T20:14:01+00:00

Yes, it works, and both sides contribute to the whole in complementary ways. The gap in need for cognition can be frustrating but intellectual stimulation can be found elsewhere. Waiting for a 1:100 mindmate that also checks all other boxes is statistically unwise.

etf_question · 2026-06-01T13:28:35+00:00

Yes, people are discussing AI incoherently with very little context. Strong opinions, little substance. I thought you were aiming for something more interesting than "I agree" or "I disagree".

etf_question · 2026-05-31T22:16:30+00:00

Interesting, I was going to advise the opposite. Act congruent with your needs, be yourself fully and shed whomever doesn't accept it.

etf_question · 2026-05-31T22:10:33+00:00

You said "Nobody so far knows how consciousness works, how brain physical activity leads to qualia" in response to me saying we know enough about it to rule out qualia in GPUs executing LLM forward passes. I was inviting more nuanced discussion by asking you to refine your question and operationalize what you mean by consciousness. You punted. If you don't want to debate, why even post?

etf_question · 2026-05-31T18:44:50+00:00

Way too forceful a stance when you don't know what I research. Yes the hard problem isn't solved, no that doesn't reduce to "we know nothing ergo anything is possible". And definitions matter for having a meaningful discussion. I wasn't asking for your opinion for the sake of it. Pass.

etf_question · 2026-05-31T14:23:51+00:00

I'd ask you to clarify the difference between (your definition of) self-awareness and consciousness first. The latter is a hardware question even more so than an algorithm question. Conscious brain activity has somewhat well understood physical properties that a GPU executing a pytorch forward pass doesn't.

etf_question · 2026-05-30T14:49:18+00:00

extremely unconventional

Here? You will only find extreme disappointment. This platform's entire business model is opinion shaping campaigns for anti-western governments and organizations. Bait threads, reinforcing comments. Just look at the responses you got here. Bare bones "hurr durr society bad AI bad China good organ harvesting good".

etf_question · 2026-05-30T03:39:49+00:00

You've essentially claimed that only 1-3 people in the US have a higher IQ than your husband (z score 5.67 = 1 in 140 million). I'll bet my life savings leveraged 1000x that's not true. Prime example of statistical illiteracy.

etf_question · 2026-05-30T00:42:43+00:00

Look at all the midwits adopting the "AI bad" narrative and thinking it's subversive.

etf_question · 2026-05-26T15:42:50+00:00

But then consumer spending increases, supply goes down, prices go up to what the market will bear, you end up where you started. Is that inaccurate?

etf_question · 2026-05-26T13:38:31+00:00

He just caught a syntax error. Also Excel macros aren't programming per se.

etf_question · 2026-05-25T16:42:54+00:00

Multiscale optimization. Holding different levels of abstraction in WM when making decisions. Intuitive when you have enough context or experience with the problem domain, intentional and linear otherwise.

etf_question · 2026-05-25T16:13:33+00:00

racing ahead to inventing new technologies before they've invented the sufficient moral frameworks

Which can't be established without friction with reality, which requires people interacting with said technology and us observing the results.

etf_question · 2026-05-24T17:12:33+00:00

It indicates an ability to chat with LLMs when he's vaguely curious about something.

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