All that said: the author's words
> But, it's no longer worth it to me to offer my knowledge and wisdom.
seriously annoy me. What kind of pompous sense self-importance does one need to have to unironically claim to possess wisdom?
Get off hacker news, go to mcdonalds, get a root beer, a ice cream cone, mix the two and realize how lucky you are to have 2 eyes to see the blue sky with, a functioning brain dumb enough to ever post this and STFU. Respectfully.
bobbyschmidd•1mo ago
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 ...