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VioletCorsica posted:
HPMOR by James Joyce
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Jun 28, 2016 18:08
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Fifty Shades of Yud
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Jun 28, 2016 20:02
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"Her voice so fearsome that it was an egg" is better than anything Big Yud ever wrote.
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Jun 28, 2016 22:46
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Have you considered also filtering in Three World's Collide?
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Jun 29, 2016 03:52
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reignonyourparade posted:Have you considered also filtering in Three World's Collide? Thank you! I added some Harry Potter canon books so it's a little more coherent recently. I'm adding Three World's Collide now.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:43
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lesswrongbot posted:I decided not to exist. Hermione arrived at the mouth of the glass. Black looked up. The hippogriff was making a speech. He was in the tangle of his wand. Ogden ran for his glasses. He didn't dare go and visit Hagrid, though, as he shuffled out of the season. Gryffindor versus Slytherin, first game of chess, he said softly. lesswrongbot posted:Combined that with my fingers in his stomach. He remembered. He had known him, Fred seemed to feature The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle. Ron's magic wand was snapped in two. Even full of clammy, rotted hands and promising to have fallen in love with anything difficult. Not unless Miss Edgecombe is using to marshal his ideas. He slowed down, searching for their trunks and boughs that formed this terms project, and tends to suffer lasting damage from the students. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 17:50
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VioletCorsica posted:Thank you! I added some Harry Potter canon books so it's a little more coherent recently. I'm adding Three World's Collide now. I know you get better quality just from expanding your corpus, but I'd like to think that the difference in writing style is enough that a Rowling bot just sounds noticably saner than a Yudkowsky bot.
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Jun 29, 2016 20:23
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Pavlov posted:I know you get better quality just from expanding your corpus, but I'd like to think that the difference in writing style is enough that a Rowling bot just sounds noticably saner than a Yudkowsky bot. Here are some Rowlingbot quotes. rowlingbot posted:He lurched forward, getting onto platform nine and ten. The only thing that could be eating for breakfast was at this very stall. I remember it as it sprinted across the room and went off target. It was so hungry he was. If Snape gets hold of a dementor halt, very close to him. She was white and the Fat Lady. rowlingbot posted:He hadn't been a corpse. The waxy skin was a moment's indecision, but there was a jumble of scrawled notes off the floor. The classroom lamps were draped with scarves and shawls around their necks and legs. Mesmerized, Harry looked up. It was lit with flaming torches.
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Jun 30, 2016 21:58
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Can someone explain to me where the enjoyment comes from in reading those things? Is it just "look at how close to not-gibberish my computer program can get"?
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Jul 5, 2016 06:56
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Murphy Brownback posted:Can someone explain to me where the enjoyment comes from in reading those things? Is it just "look at how close to not-gibberish my computer program can get"?
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Jul 5, 2016 07:18
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Murphy Brownback posted:Can someone explain to me where the enjoyment comes from in reading those things? Is it just "look at how close to not-gibberish my computer program can get"? These kinds of bots are pretty much ~lol random~ humor, but written by grown adults and loosely centered around a particular subject. @you_have_died is the quintessential example of this: there's no reason to find nonsensical and bizarre ways to die funny, you either do or you don't. If you're not inclined to surrealist mashup humor, they're not really for you. I personally enjoy this parody of thinkpiece headlines, and because I run in social justice circles I enjoy this parody of bad social justice discourse. ("You Have To Buy Woman-Made Coffee To Be A Real Feminist", "Cishet Kinksters Co-Opting Queerness is Body Positive When I Do It". This poo poo is gold to me.)
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Jul 5, 2016 08:08
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Ok, I wasn't trying to be insulting or anything I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. I guess they're not for me.
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Jul 5, 2016 08:25
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Murphy Brownback posted:Can someone explain to me where the enjoyment comes from in reading those things? Is it just "look at how close to not-gibberish my computer program can get"? I would take a slightly more nuanced view and say that it is interesting how the bots retain the style of an author even when horribly jumbled. Rowlingbot is noticeably more sophisticated than Yudkowbot with a longer and less choppy sentence structure.
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Jul 6, 2016 05:16
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Jazerus posted:I would take a slightly more nuanced view and say that it is interesting how the bots retain the style of an author even when horribly jumbled. Rowlingbot is noticeably more sophisticated than Yudkowbot with a longer and less choppy sentence structure. The best part is that Yudkowsky probably thinks this is sufficient proof of the impending singularity
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Jul 6, 2016 09:18
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Jazerus posted:I would take a slightly more nuanced view and say that it is interesting how the bots retain the style of an author even when horribly jumbled. Rowlingbot is noticeably more sophisticated than Yudkowbot with a longer and less choppy sentence structure. To be fair, most of that is recognisably the effect you get from expanding your corpus.
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Jul 6, 2016 09:24
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Jazerus posted:I would take a slightly more nuanced view and say that it is interesting how the bots retain the style of an author even when horribly jumbled. Rowlingbot is noticeably more sophisticated than Yudkowbot with a longer and less choppy sentence structure. Or something.
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Jul 6, 2016 10:31
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MikeJF posted:To be fair, most of that is recognisably the effect you get from expanding your corpus. Until you hit the tipping point where the corpus is big enough to revert your bot to mush
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Jul 6, 2016 14:47
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So are there nerds who work on optimizing the bots to get better, more sensible strings of bizarre gibberish? That could be a fun and interesting hobby.
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Jul 7, 2016 15:44
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Pvt.Scott posted:So are there nerds who work on optimizing the bots to get better, more sensible strings of bizarre gibberish? That could be a fun and interesting hobby. If you start optimizing too far, you start deciding to work with cutting edge neural networks, and maybe put Mark Rosewater out of a job.
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Jul 7, 2016 16:35
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Do you know who else talked a lot about optimization? Eliezarry. Makes you think.
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Jul 7, 2016 21:14
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For me, programming it is an interesting puzzle. The bots make interesting poetic connections because the language doesn't mean anything - it has no referent. This is more practical for when I want to analyze data, but I'll take my humor where I can find it. Lesswrongbot is canon Harry Potter plus HPMOR so rowlingbot has a smaller corpus, actually. In contrast to how this usually works, expanding the corpus (by adding HPMOR) makes the bot less coherent. Perhaps this is the singularity.
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Jul 10, 2016 04:46
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This is probably only tangentially relevant, but I came across an article in New Scientist about a huge cryonics facility being built in Texas, which has been named Timeship. Here's another article on it, focusing mainly on the project itself. It will able to store up to 50, 000 cryogenically preserved bodies, as well as tissues, cells and research labs. The author is pretty skeptical of the idea of being able to take a frozen person, repair the damage done by current freezing processes and bring them back to life, but is more interested in the potential of cryopreserving cells and tissues rather than whole people or brains. Hell, the CEO of Alcor makes the comment that current preservation techniques aren't good enough to freeze a brain and have it still be viable. But considering that the people behind the project, Bill Faloon and Saul Kent, gave this Valentine guy several million dollars just to find a place to build the thing, and are planning to put even more money into improving the freezing process, we could get some useful applications out of it. In the short term, donor organs could be cryopreserved for transportation or storage until a compatible donor is found, since being unable to find a compatible person within the limited distance an organ can be transported before it becomes useless is a huge problem that leads to a lot of donated organs simply going to waste. In the future, people could preserve their own stem cells, and if they ever find themselves in need of an organ transplant or replacement of heart valves/tendons/etc, the stem cells could be thawed and used to grow tissues that won't carry the risks of rejection or requirement of lifelong immunosuppressant therapy. Maybe Big Yud and other people with crippling fears of death pouring money into the cryonics industry could be useful to humanity after all 
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Jul 10, 2016 07:24
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Well the people in charge of keeping Lenin's body pretty have advanced medical science so...
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Jul 10, 2016 07:40
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Does this make Yud's alignment lawful... good? Chaotic... neutral?
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Jul 10, 2016 21:14
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Ten Becquerels posted:This is probably only tangentially relevant, but I came across an article in New Scientist about a huge cryonics facility being built in Texas, which has been named Timeship. Here's another article on it, focusing mainly on the project itself. It will able to store up to 50, 000 cryogenically preserved bodies, as well as tissues, cells and research labs. There are pretty big questions as to the viability of a brain for sentience once electrical activity stops anyway, even without the freezing issues.
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Jul 13, 2016 08:46
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Ten Becquerels posted:This is probably only tangentially relevant, but I came across an article in New Scientist about a huge cryonics facility being built in Texas, which has been named Timeship. Here's another article on it, focusing mainly on the project itself. Ten Becquerels posted:Hell, the CEO of Alcor makes the comment that current preservation techniques aren't good enough to freeze a brain and have it still be viable. Said CEO isn't cited in that article - do you have a clear cite on him saying that? (May be worth adding to the RW article.)
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Jul 13, 2016 11:27
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VioletCorsica, is this yours or are geniuses thinking alike?
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Jul 15, 2016 11:52
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divabot posted:VioletCorsica, is this yours or are geniuses thinking alike? Not mine, but what I am working up to! This looks cool, thanks!
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Jul 16, 2016 05:20
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divabot posted:VioletCorsica, is this yours or are geniuses thinking alike? Big Yud had a very Yud comment on it: Eliezer Yudkowky posted:You know, technically, the original was also written by a recurrent neural network...
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Jul 16, 2016 09:48
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I wish to dunk his head in a toilet, vigorously.
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Jul 16, 2016 09:49
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I'll give Yud his due, I thought that was funny. Of course human brains are most likely recursive not recurrent though, because getting the technical aspects of a domain slightly wrong seems to be Yud's gimmick.
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Jul 16, 2016 18:02
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i81icu812 posted:In 88 days we've gone through 12 chapters out of 122 total chapters. At this rate we can look forward to completion on Oct 30, 2017. In 625 days we've gone through 18 chapters out of 122 total chapters. At this rate we can look forward to completion on March 4, 2029. JosephWongKS, don't think you can get off the hook that easily!
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Nov 8, 2016 04:52
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You could have let them wander out to pasture and die in their sleep. But no. No.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:08
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky > Other > Fiction > Dark Lord's Answer: This is a 2-of-7 chapter sample of “Dark Lord’s Answer”. The remainder is available at Gumroad and Amazon.
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Dec 20, 2016 15:48
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Did you really have to break my bubble of pretending this idiot didn't exist
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Dec 20, 2016 17:20
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At least writing bad fantasy is an honest living. I'd much rather have him doing that than encouraging people to divert their charity money to his computer cult.
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Dec 20, 2016 19:08
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Just to be super-on-topic, here's a LessWrong drunk post that was deleted at the time but appears to have been reinstated. (Archive.)Will Newsome posted:Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild
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Dec 21, 2016 11:37
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I figure I would do my due diligence for the sake of the community, or whatever, so I downvoted this post. Note that I'm a newer user of Less Wrong who isn't very familiar with Mr. Newsome's history of shenanigans on this website. So, I didn't have an automatic reaction to cringe, or something, when I encountered this piece. I downvoted this post based upon its own, singular lack of merit. Mr. Newsome, here is some criticism I hope you appreciate. Nothing about this first chapter here is enticing me to care about 'post-rationality', whatever that is. Eliezer Yudkowsky took a premise everyone was familiar with, and turned it on its head during the first chapter. He used a narrative format that was familiar, and actually wrote well. While the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality didn't immediately begin with a introduction of what the "methods of rationality" as applied to magic would be, per se, there was enough of that in the first chapter to keep others reading. In hindsight, Mr. Yudkowsky couldn't have expected his fan fiction to become so popular, or so widely read. The fact that it has might be biasing me into thinking that his first crack at writing the fan fiction was better than it really is. Anyway, it seems you're trying too much with this piece. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the premise everyone here is familiar with, but you've done more than just turn it on its head. You've turned the very idea of one having a deep familiarity with the tropes on Less Wrong on its head. The first paragraph is just a blast of memes; I'm familiar with all of them, but I don't understand what all of them mean. The first part is incoherent, and is signaling that you have the knowledge to mock (in jest) the Less Wrong community. That in itself isn't clever, and the rest of the piece isn't clever enough as a parody to keep us, the readers, engaged. I perceive the second part of this chapter to be a bit funny, but it doesn't build upon anything to get me to care. I don't believe it will be sustainable to have Potter-Yudkowsky be aware that he is in a meta-fan-fiction. If the protagonist confronts you, the author, as the controller of the world he is simulated within, he can at best only engage with a caricature of yourself as you've written it. It's difficult for me to think of how you would handle that without it becoming boring, lest you're very talented, and creative. If Potter-Yudkowsky realizes he can use his awareness to gain superpowers, that destroys the suspension of disbelief in the fantasy world the reader immerses themselves in quickly, which would also be boring. Finally, based upon how this chapter has played out, it would be difficult to maintain great continuity into the next chapter, which I would personally find frustrating, and challenging, as a reader. This reads as the first part of some absurdist fiction. Still, it contains little foresight. The fact that you were drunk at the time this chapter was written, and posted, leads me to suspect that such an aspect made you want to post something which would be entertaining to yourself, but wasn't crafted with much thought to how it would be received by whatever readership you were hoping for. In short, this doesn't strike me as a direct parody of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, but a parody of the rationalist community itself(?). That's such an odd thing to do that I find it off-putting, and I consider it this piece's undoing.
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Dec 21, 2016 12:16
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I figure I would do my due diligence for the sake of the community, or whatever, so I downvoted this post. Note that I'm a newer user of Less Wrong who isn't very familiar with Mr. Newsome's history of shenanigans on this website. So, I didn't have an automatic reaction to cringe, or something, when I encountered this piece. I downvoted this post based upon its own, singular lack of merit. An AI in the future is running a simulation of this person's existence solely to dump their books over and over for eternity.
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The question is: is Rowling's Cursed Child play better or worse that MoR? Now that we've had time for it to sink in and we're less stunned.The Shortest Path posted:Did you really have to break my bubble of pretending this idiot didn't exist Hey now! That's no way to talk about OP!
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