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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Aster, internet archaeologist‏ @ArsonAtDennys 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @iridienne @cowtung and

      As Mencken famously said “One horse laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms” and this is doubly true with rationalists

      1 reply 7 retweets 48 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @RiotAtArbys and

      Sheer social shaming and fear of personal consequences has probably done a lot more to turn people away from the alt-right (most likely in favor of just logging off completely) than any of this debate-club bullshit "Bullying" is harmful because it *works*

      2 replies 9 retweets 110 likes
    3. Aster, internet archaeologist‏ @ArsonAtDennys 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      We would like to hand the torch to @GeorgeHemingto1 and @davidgerard who will continue the series of unprecedented exposés. What WILL we find? (Hint: it’s racism) Aka I need to sleep but one of u create a thread and link it here

      1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
    4. David Gerard  🐍 👑  🌷‏ @davidgerard 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @RiotAtArbys and

      although I deeply appreciate your top class work here, you must understand that we are both profoundly lazy and tend to approach critique of the rationalist subculture as internet television, including occasionally the bit where you shout at the screen

      2 replies 3 retweets 53 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @davidgerard @RiotAtArbys and

      Laughter is really what they hate most Their natural element is trying to suck you into something as close to a formal debate as possible and waste your energy and time They can't stand just being callously dismissed with "Pfft nerd"

      5 replies 7 retweets 93 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @davidgerard and

      That's the Eliezer Yudkowsky quote the name "SneerClub" comes from in the first place They get so fucking mad at the idea of being dismissed based on emotional contempt without even bothering to read their collected reams of evidence Only Chads and Stacies do that

      1 reply 5 retweets 39 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @davidgerard and

      It's why popularizing the meme of Roko's Basilisk has been 10,000x more helpful in fighting their bullshit than any long point by point dissection from someone like me could be

      2 replies 4 retweets 48 likes
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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020

      It's an inside reference Basically, the group of Silicon Valley homebrew philosophers who hang out at websites like Less Wrong and Slate Star Codex are a lot like a cult One of them came up with this very complicated idea that's very culty https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk …

      2 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

      Without getting too deep, a lot of these guys are really obsessed with AI research and the idea that if you build a computer that's smart enough to improve itself, rather than relying on humans to improve it, its intelligence will grow exponentially until it can do anything

      3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

      They are really really into this idea that someday in the future an AI will be built that will become God, essentially, and they call this event the Singularity (it'll be an event that's never happened before and the results are impossible to predict)

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      3 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

          Despite what I just said, they spend a lot of time trying to predict it, and talking like they can control it (even though none of them actually work on designing actual AIs or supercomputers) They take a lot of donations from their fans to have these discussions

          1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

          One of the posters on Less Wrong, a guy named Roko, came up with this complicated idea that because the future AI God will have perfect knowledge of the past before it was created, it will know whether or not you did everything you could to help create it

          1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
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        2. Iocaine Milkshake (a little bland)‏ @amolitor99 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

          The singularity in particular is a hilarious idea. Exponential growth ends in one of two ways: 1) A sinusoid, when damping factors eventually kick in, 2) the machines explodes, if damping factors do not exist or are not sufficiently robust. 1/

          3 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
        3. Iocaine Milkshake (a little bland)‏ @amolitor99 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @amolitor99 @arthur_affect and

          This is basic undergrad mathematics. Anyone who has taken an introductory course in differential equations, and then thought about exponential growth for a couple hours, knows this. 2/

          1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
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        2. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

          But the LW crowd has predicted Roko’s Basilisk! So if the Basilisk ever comes into being, it won’t be part of the Singularity, which is, by definition, unpredictable.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Critical Hat‏ @Spkr2Managers 26 Jun 2020
          Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and

          I like to call it Rocky’s Basilisk and tell them how cool it is to imagine an AI runnng up and down the steps in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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