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be here or be sneer, i guess
i sort of depend on this community to not go insane working in tech, so i’m happy it’s continuing
The whole “autogynephilia” thing has always kind of struck me as similar to the “you gotta stay constantly vigilant because the devil is constantly trying to tempt men into having gay sex” thing. Like, yeah, if you conceptualize it as pathological, you’re gonna feel like there’s something wrong with you. But it only feels weird when you’re feeling it from the “wrong side,” so to speak.
(later edit: it turns out maybe I don’t actually know what autogynephilia is, so I might be confused…)
I think this blog got posted to sneerclub before though and yeah it’s kinda too sad to make fun of. This post is a couple years old now but it looks like they’re still blogging in this vein… I hope eventually they’re able to come to terms with their true feelings.
Only tangentially related, but a thing I’ve been thinking about:
Just the other day I was riding my bike and came to a four-way stop. I planned to turn right, but it was up a steep hill. To my left was a car who was waiting for me, assuming I wanted to go straight. But I didn’t want them to be stuck behind me all the way up the hill, so I just pointed to the right up the hill and they understood and went ahead of me.
My concern with the hypothetical autonomous car future, and the whole “autonomous car safety” argument in general, is that it seems like the safety questions are almost entirely focused on “safety of the driver” and “miles traveled without an accident”. “See,” everyone says, pointing to their very cool graphs and metrics, “they’re much safer than a human driver!”
But I have a much bigger concern as someone who doesn’t really drive that often, which is that when I’m walking or biking I have no idea how to negotiate with or predict the behavior of these things. Sure, humans can get distracted, but humans fail in ways that are well-understood, and you can negotiate with humans socially in a way you can’t negotiate with an opaque ML algorithm that might fail in a completely random and unpredictable way. When I’m not in a car, I feel much safer interacting with human-driven cars than I would with autonomous vehicles.
only 10x lucid dreamers wake up after falling asleep
And here I thought accidentally waking up after it happened meant I was just bad at lucid dreaming. Shows what I know
I don’t even get his point. You can voluntarily use your freedom to constrain yourself already. What, is the Food Optimizer gonna knock down your door and force-feed you McDonald’s? Has vegetarianism become illegal? Clearly what he’s actually mad about is that the state won’t let him involuntarily constrain others
Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges.
Sounds like it. I’m kind of surprised they’re still making the association so explicit now that effective altruism is more well-known in the mainstream and has a fairly bad public image due to the FTX thing
for real though, i keep saying important people specifically say “AI will help with climate change” and like… how, dude? by burning a ton of energy to think really hard about it with its magic brain powers? like, what is the actual concrete help here supposed to be, for real. is this just the new “crypto incentivizes switching to green energy”? :/
People just going on living their life like our literal gods aren’t already amongst us
It’s true, I am, because they aren’t