originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn't like links to Yarvin's substack
archive: https://archive.is/olhGc
dead dove, approach with care before eating
Curtis Yarvin absolutely losing his brain to AI
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/redpilling-claude
26 Comments
mwenge@awful.systems · 26 pts · 222d
"I have a newborn baby and a startup and time is tight." Proceeds to write 10,000 words about typing into the void.
mirrorwitch@awful.systems · 24 pts · 222d
oh gosh our boy is just so proud that he got the echo-chambering machine specifically engineered to chamber echoes to echo his words.
what kinds of jailbreak is he going to invent next, maybe a way to make LLMs suck up to everything you say? perhaps even a sophisticated hacker glitch to make LLMs say things that are statistically likely to follow the preceding input
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 15 pts · 221d
That reads a lot like “how I got the stripper to like me by stuffing her garter with hundred-dollar bills”
ndevenish@mas.to · 6 pts · 220d
@AllNewTypeFace “ah bit if you put them in in this specific order they _really_ like me, not just feigning interest #lifehacks”
YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems · 15 pts · 221d
Mostly I'm just upset that he brings up knob-and-tube wiring and then moves on without ever actually explaining what the fuck he's taking about. Congratulations on living in an old house that hasn't been completely rewired up to modern code I guess? What does that have to do with literally anything that follows? Going off on a long tangent about the history of domestic wiring sounds way more interesting than this dreck.
istewart@awful.systems · 11 pts · 221d
Didn't really think about it until just now, but a load-bearing part of Yarvin's work seeming erudite is him dropping in little bits of obscure trivia that may or may not have anything to do with the topic at hand
cstross@wandering.shop · 13 pts · 221d
@istewart @sneerclub Hey, I do that too! In fiction. Adds that crunchy texture that makes readers think it's profound.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 5 pts · 221d
Like the bottle opener on a Galil, or the "Flower Field" version of Minesweeper, it can also help distinguish your story in small, but interesting ways, and help it stick in a reader's mind. (Had to try this trick for myself :P)
swlabr@awful.systems · 13 pts · 222d
Truer words, dawg. Amongst everything else, what the fuck is up with the subtitle.
zogwarg@awful.systems · 11 pts · 221d
I can't imagine anyone really subjecting themselves to reading all that, I'm delighted for them though, or distraught that it happened...
It is a bit sad how Yarvin frontlines his "victory", by quoting some extruded text, but in context—he is somehow kind enough to provide, maybe he didn't bother reading all of that either—it's just some fence-sitting big nothing, i doubt the claims that this produces any form of "red-pilled" Claude.
(I'm not sure what I expected, but it truly was a dead dove.)
o7___o7@awful.systems · 11 pts · 222d
In 50 years some history pervert's gonna dig this up and have a very weird day.
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 221d
istewart@awful.systems · 6 pts · 219d
You make an important point. For instance, just imagine when Twitter finally goes down for good. Trump's most provocative bullshit is archived in multiple places, but the output of dozens of little Twitlers that we might recognize and consider fairly important movement figures will probably be so much dust in the wind. Historians working on Nazi Germany can consult complete archives of shit like Der Sturmer if they need to; historians working on this period might be faced with a tattered quilt.
YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems · 4 pts · 220d
I don't think we can afford copper but I do like the sound of playing a cruel prank on future archaeologists.
blakestacey@awful.systems · 6 pts · 219d
When I was a kid, my Dad and I made a clay tablet with a message written in Egyptian hieroglyphs and buried it in a spot that was about to be covered by a new concrete driveway.
swlabr@awful.systems · 5 pts · 220d
the spectre of Ea-nāṣir stirs
TrashGoblin@awful.systems · 10 pts · 220d
I'm excited to see that he is well into the process of succumbing to AI psychosis. I just hope he manages to lead J.D. Vance someplace really weird before the inevitable.
vivtek@indieweb.social · 4 pts · 222d
@dgerard One of the things I like the least about Yarvin is that I really like his writing style. Dammit.
corbin@awful.systems · 13 pts · 222d
It's because Yarvin's writing is bite-sized. He can't really hold ideas in his head for more than a paragraph or so. Pick any of Yarvin's famous thought experiments or Capitalised Noun-Phrases and go look up where he introduced it; I bet you that he spends maybe one paragraph defining the idea, one paragraph explaining his solution, and perhaps one more paragraph patting himself on the back for being such a smart libertarian edgelord. The man literally cannot write a five-paragraph mini-essay; instead, he emits dozens of little pellets of undigested words which he expects you to eat.
mirrorwitch@awful.systems · 10 pts · 222d
My condolences. That must feel bad. I am fortunate in that I don't. All the short sentences. No payoff. Like a boxer who constantly jabs at you—but never risks a straight. For twenty rounds. Yawn.
swlabr@awful.systems · 12 pts · 222d
Guys like this read some big name author once and think that all you have to do to be a good writer is like, have a writing style. And then they proceed to fail upwards forever
froztbyte@awful.systems · 8 pts · 222d
real popular genre with the "has never read a single even-slightly-different" fanbase tho
vivtek@indieweb.social · 3 pts · 222d
@mirrorwitch OK, by the time he got to the yawn I was also wandering - but that first paragraph sounded like somebody I could like, you know? I had bad wiring in my old house, too.
dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 222d
I'm so sorry
o7___o7@awful.systems · 3 pts · 222d
lol
polariscap@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 45d
Yikes I’d never actually finished a full post of his — and still won’t (had to close this one about 1/3 of the way through) 😅 What an insufferable tool.
bootie_fringe@girlcock.club · -2 pts · 222d
dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 222d
sorry to hear that! Since you couldn't be bothered to read the side bar for what the sub's about, I'll just enhance your Lemmy experience.