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Molly White is best known for shining a light on the silliness and fraud that are cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3. This essay may be a sign that she’s shifting her focus to our sneerworthy friends in the extended rationalism universe. If so, that’s an excellent development. Molly’s great.
- Evinceo ( @Evinceo@awful.systems ) English9•6 months ago
Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I’m glad she’s laying the groundwork for a next move.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English5•6 months ago
i assure you that it has. The AI people are awful though.
- gerikson ( @gerikson@awful.systems ) English6•6 months ago
This arrived just in time for me to use it in an online argument. Thanks.
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English6•6 months ago
For example, the inaugural Substack post defining effective accelerationisms’s “principles and tenets” name-drops the “Jarzynski-Crooks fluctuation dissipation theorem”
To echo a comment from old!SneerClub: That’s not a thing. There are three separate but related ideas (the Crooks fluctuation theorem, the Jarzynski equality and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem) which the author doesn’t know are separate, because he hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English3•6 months ago
got a link to it btw?
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English4•6 months ago
A link to what?
(The link in the Substack post is to the Wikipedia page for the Crooks result, disguising — intentionally or not — the fact that the writer is just smashing together science words.)
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English3•6 months ago
the apparently original e/acc post, i think i’ve seen it but can’t find it
- earthquake ( @earthquake@lemm.ee ) English3•6 months ago
Seems like it’s this: https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-tenets
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English4•6 months ago
I think that’s it — it’s the one Timnit Gebru linked to back in February which prompted the old!SneerClub discussion I mentioned, and Molly White’s newsletter links to the same place.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English3•6 months ago
I found this earlier one, which it cites as its source:
All that’s before that is these few guys throwing the term around on Twitter
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English5•6 months ago
There is a fractal optimization algorithm that created life, intelligence, and every meta-organism we know.
I’m wanking at the speed of light / wanna make a meta-fractal brain out of you
- The Time Being ( @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ) 3•6 months ago
@earthquake @dgerard I just read some of this and it made me substantially stupider
- earthquake ( @earthquake@lemm.ee ) English4•6 months ago
It’s important to stretch before reading their stuff. A good stretch is to find the latest fad and argue how it’s an addiction.
Then, afterwards, you need to cool off and detox. I recommend some Quake, but finding a new favorite album also works.
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English5•6 months ago
quake is still fucking awesome and the remasters of 1 and 2 are great for an impromptu steam deck lan party
- Architeuthis ( @Architeuthis@awful.systems ) English5•6 months ago
Must be another one of those hundred hostile bloggers who inexplicably have it in for EA, according to siskind.
- David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) English4•6 months ago
i am reasonably sure that Molly knows precisely who these fucks are and is not a fan
- V0ldek ( @V0ldek@awful.systems ) English2•1 month ago
The link is dead, now hosted at [citation needed]