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by bobbyschmidd 178 days ago
nobody seems to listen or value? then crying out loud and raging against the dying of whatever is exactly the right measure.

maybe the author is just too nice? that does not work when everybody is manic and obsessed.

Rationality can be just as manic and obsessed as irrationality and madness. Most of those "EA" peeps are perfect examples. As is this Eliezer AI or dude, I still can't decide.

With all this stuff maximizing our fallacies and biases, sometimes inverting them to support some cultural narrative while leaving us with a sense or certainty of being "based" and/or "grounded" even though we, as a collective of individuals, have just been successfully normalized--our critical thinking reduced to a bobblehead, and our agency to that of a maneki-neko, there is absolutely no need to "turn down for what?" (dial it down) ... you are not playing Lil Jon at 200 db in the middle of the night in a neighborhood full of newborns, after all.

wait, maybe I got something poetic ...

in the absence of the echoes of gold and truth, only noise remains.

... which is a problem because then our brain's internal Kalman filters got nothing to work with ...