If you’re a big-headed guy or gal at a rationalist puddle cuddle, double check that your rubbers didn’t get punctured.

  • flere-imsaho
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    744 months ago

    yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

    • AcausalRobotGodOP
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      424 months ago

      Much like a network, the brain is a series of tubes.

    • @V0ldek
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      234 months ago

      To have the confidence of a white CS undergrad…

  • @blakestaceyMA
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    334 months ago

    shot:

    The upper bound for how long to pause AI is only a century, because “farming” (artificially selecting) higher-IQ humans could probably create competent IQ 200 safety researchers.

    It just takes C-sections to enable huge heads and medical science for other issues that come up.

    chaser:

    Indeed, the bad associations ppl have with eugenics are from scenarios much less casual than this one

    going full “villain in a Venture Bros. episode who makes the Monarch feel good by comparison”:

    Sure, I don’t think it’s crazy to claim women would be lining up to screw me in that scenario

    • @Soyweiser
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      174 months ago

      Lol, the guy goes normal weird high school level shitposter when he has the slightest pushback.

  • @Soyweiser
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    Considering that the idea of the singularity of AGI was the exponential function going straight up, I don’t think this persons understands the problem. Lol, LMAO foomed the scorpion.

    (Also that is some gross weird eugenics shit).

    E: also isn’t IQ a number that gets regraded every now and then with an common upper bound of 160? I know the whole post is more intended as vaguely eugenics aspirational but still.

    Anyway, time to start the lucrative field of HighIQHuman safety research. What do we do if the eugenics superhumans goals don’t align with humanity?

    • @BigMuffin69
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      Smh, why do I feel like I understand the theology of their dumb cult better than its own adherents? If you believe that one day AI will foom into a 10 trillion IQ super being, then it makes no difference at all whether your ai safety researcher has 200 IQ or spends their days eating rocks like the average LW user.

      • @imadabouzu
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        74 months ago

        Oh absolutely! This is the entire delusion collapsing on itself.

        Bro, if intelligence is, as the cult claims, fully contained self improvement, --you could never have mattered by definition–. If the system is closed, and you see the point of convergence up ahead… what does it even fucking matter?

        This is why Pascal’s wager defeats all forms of maximal utilitarianism. Again, if the system is closed around a set of known alternatives, then yes. It doesn’t matter anymore. You don’t even need intelligence to do this. You can do with sticks and stones by imagining away all the other things.

  • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    254 months ago

    in an attempt to persuade normal people to take them seriously, they imagined themselves to be important enough to have their own version of bene gesserit. the sheer fucking hubris and nerve of these people,

    also that “other issues that come up” means here “draw the rest of the fucking owl” but they don’t even have crayons

    • flere-imsaho
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      144 months ago

      wanted to emulate bene gesserit, ended doing bene tleilax

      • @blakestaceyMA
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        154 months ago

        Wait, I totally had something for this…

        “Bene Jizzerit”

        • flere-imsaho
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          53 months ago

          thank you, that’s perfectly awful :-)

  • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    214 months ago

    Aren’t smaller, better-connected brains more likely to be from an intelligent person? I’m not sure there’s a relationship between intelligence and brain size in general.

    Also, huge head does not imply large brain inside the head.

    • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      364 months ago

      Our brain shape science basically boils down to:

      • missing big pieces usually makes it work less well.
      • folds and creases seem good?
      • Not too much fluid!
      • Not too little either!
      • front part seems pretty important for thinking.
      • middle too.
      • “stuff” in the brain is almost always bad for thinking. Like rocks and things. Neurons, blood and the right blend of fluids are great.
      • phrenology is pretty wrong. Like, super wrong.

      Beyond that, we know a bunch of stuff about brains and neurons and how they all piece together, but just based on lookin’, we’re pretty bad at judging a person based on their head and brain.

      • Codex
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        124 months ago

        instructions unclear; adding rocks to brain for hard thinking

        • @bitofhope
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          124 months ago

          Tired of people stereotyping metalheads as dumb smh

        • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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          94 months ago

          No! That will probably do something bad! Or nothing, depending on complex factors we’ve not totally figured out!

          At least wash it first and take some before and after images.

      • @V0ldek
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        124 months ago

        missing big pieces usually makes it work less well.

        I fucking love science.

      • @Brutticus@lemm.ee
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        44 months ago

        Based on my neurology classes, I feel like we have some idea what some parts of the brain do. Obviously full on experiments would be unethical, but we can like, observe which neural pathways formed in people with the same life style (so Taxi Drivers have larger and more developed sections focused on navigation). We can observe what happens to people who take the same kinds of damage, and occasionally we get lucky and we can see what happens to people with grievous injuries or rare maladies. Also, we can do experiments on creatures like snails which far less complex brains.

        The brain is certainly an interesting a weird black box, but we do have outs to learn some things

        • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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          94 months ago

          Oh, totally. We legitimately know tons of stuff about brains, including what most parts are typically used for. We just can’t tell much based on eyeball lookin’, we’ve gotta get in there with FMRI and EEGs.

          I’m purely referring to head/brain size or gross physical properties and how they relate to intelligence.

          Show a neurologist a photograph of a random brain and ask them to assess the owners intelligence.
          The only thing they really have to go on is that if you can photograph someone’s brain, signs aren’t typically looking great for them.
          They’ll be making guesses based on vague correlations, and also getting fidgety about what you even mean by intelligence, since that’s also not a simple measure.

        • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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          64 months ago

          Oh, I forgot to mention that we can also do some weird experiments with rats. Teach a bunch of rats how to do a maze, or complete some task, and then surgically remove different bits of each of their brains.
          Unless you really mess them up, they usually remember how to do the maze.

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5001904/

          It’s why missing a chunk won’t make the neurologist definitely say it’s impaired someone’s intelligence.

          https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/22/1165131907/neuroplasticity-plasticity-glass-half-full-girl

          It’s an extreme case, but definitely indicative of how visual examination is just not great for assessing brain function.

          • @Brutticus@lemm.ee
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            34 months ago

            Yeah, brain plasticity is really fascinating. One of the guys I work with, its the only way to teach him anything. He had a heroin overdose like 15 years ago. He has basically no short term memory, but I’ve been able to get him to retain things via repetition. Mostly repetitive physical tasks, but social media, with advertisers constantly pinging him, has also been a very powerful reminder. He’s big into the EDM scene and he remembers events, both past and future, because social media keeps buzzing him and reminding him. I wish there was a way to harness that power for good.

            But obviously, I’ve never seen his brain before.

    • @Soyweiser
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      194 months ago

      I have a big head (I needed to pick the bigger helmets when I went gokarting) so yes, there is a huge relationship between IQ and brain size. Don’t mock my chunky noggin please.

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          uses my superior vision, no caliper needed

          That you felt to point out what you think is a mistake shows me you have an inferior skull. You might even have the blood of the worst people (The Dutch, the creators of the infernal word LOL, Colonizing the sea, and Big Brother (potjandorie nog aan toe!)), in you. :P

            • @Soyweiser
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              194 months ago

              Don’t worry only skull size on birth matters, else we could just take normal kids and inflate their skulls with pump.

              • @V0ldek
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                134 months ago

                Jesus christ mate, they’re listening! Don’t give them ideas!

                • @Soyweiser
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                  94 months ago

                  We have seen what they think we talk about vs what we actually talk about, and they def are not listening ;)

    • @lessthanluigi@lemmy.world
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      174 months ago

      I mean, Idiocracy was basically “what if party-bros ran society?” as a movie. Definitely more fun than this shit.

  • @MacStache@programming.dev
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    174 months ago

    Selective breeding, eh? There’s a word for this and it was vouched for by a guy with a distinct style of moustache.

  • Skua
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    144 months ago

    Ahh, good old ShitCrusaderKingsSay…

    Oh wait

    • @cornflake
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      64 months ago

      Somehow he makes it sound even more misanthropic

      • sleepybisexual
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        64 months ago

        What does misanthropic mean?

        Also isn’t IQ in general kinda inaccurate?

        • @sc_griffith
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          64 months ago

          misanthropic means person hating; possessed of contempt and malevolence toward humans as both individuals and a class. connotations of bitterness or cruelty

      • @swlabr
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        44 months ago

        For me, it’s the complete non-mention of uterus-owning people*, as if they are just a means to the end.

        *I couldn’t come up with a gender-inclusive term for this that didn’t make me sound like a monster so apologies

        • @gerikson
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          64 months ago

          This will include dudes with multiple uterii in their freezer but they’re probably outliers.

          • @swlabr
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            64 months ago

            ah, yes, I forgot to put in a second footnote about my neighbour Brian. We’d call the cops but it turns out he’s the local sheriff.

          • @swlabr
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            54 months ago

            My best attempt to follow this advice produces: people who can get pregnant. Works for me!

  • @swlabr
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    104 months ago

    double check that your rubbers didn’t get punctured.

    Extra wrinkly*, for your partner’s pleasure

    *

    the brain, that is

    • AcausalRobotGodOP
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      43 months ago

      Interesting, I knew a guy who worked there for a bit.

  • @maol
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    44 months ago

    Eurgh!