yudkowsky advocating for airstrikes on datacenters and nick land admitting that bitcoin sucks
its been a day
@mutual_ayyde jesus fucking christ, seems like one more lunatic should have sticked with Harry Potter books…
he is so certain that humanity doesn't have any value to something smarter than it. what a cheerful ideology…
@mutual_ayyde @sofia type of guy who spends most of his life “debunking religion” but unironically believes in Roko’s Basilisk
@elfprince13 @sofia i mean its even worse than that because sans proof that P=NP we can at least probe the bounds of what is possible re: simulation and the like and so can try to evaluate things like protein death machines are actually something we should worry about
@sofia @mutual_ayyde physics is O(n^2) so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@elfprince13 @sofia serious question do you know of any good papers on the challenges of simulation?
@mutual_ayyde many. what kind of simulation specifically did you have in mind? my offhand "physics is O(n^2)" remark is actually only true of classical mechanics. quantum mechanics is much worse - see this classic (and reasonably accessible) paper for a fun intro: https://s2.smu.edu/~mitch/class/5395/papers/feynman-quantum-1981.pdf
@elfprince13 yup https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/