Comment on Relationship advice?

Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TurtleJoe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This guy essentially founded modern “rationalism.” He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this “philosophy.” It’s all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.

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  • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hold on, he’s serious?

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup. Satire no longer exists, welcome to 2024.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn, I thought he was shitposting

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    • zzx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, he basically has a cult dedicated to his wins whims

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  • jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When your ego is large enough to fantasize that a malevolent AI will create a simulation of yourself to torture for eternity simply because you didn’t spend all your money trying to bring it into being.

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• Fawxhox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As an autistic dude, I feel like I know that it’s weird too say, but I also feel like it makes sense. Like it’s hard to quantify x% better, but I’m sure there is a number, for me at least, where if someone is that much better and would date me, I’d do it. It’s not romantic to say, but it’s true. And I’ve been dumped for other people twice so the same must have been true for them.

  It just feels like one of the thousands of unspoken rules you’re not allowed to talk about out of politeness. But honestly I would like to know that number for my SO.

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  • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re curious about an alternative view, I suggest The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Relationships are about growing your own and the others natural abilities, something you do and not about trading something you have. The OP post is a materialistic view and a belief in inequality. YMMV.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s also the psycho who founded a movement which designed to let insane billionaires justify spending their money however they want, no matter the people they hurt now, as long as it’s ‘for the greater good’ long term.

      The OOP needs to kiss the business end of a wood chipper if you ask me

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      • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting, I haven’t heard his name. I do like Nick Bostrom though. I started reading about this Effective Altruism, on paper it sounds all very nice, but this OOP materialist nonsense bodes very bad for any ethical AI lol. Do you have a link to some good critique of this EA stuff?

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sure. just codify the human experience of love, marriage, sex, relationships, family and their interpersonal connections and the entire population into a single integer in a way that the difference between 42 and 43, and 1 and 153, is meaningful to everyone regardless of race, culture, creed, ethnicity, language, class, location, age, upbringing, wants, needs, desires, hopes, dreams and in a way that remains meaningful for up to 8 decades as well as the first meeting of a relationship and encourages people to feel safe, confident and happy to leave a relationship based on a relative number to their assigned integer. It should keep you busy for a little while but I look forward to seeing what number you assign to, for eg a Liberian refugee in Sierra Leone or a Changar itinerant harvesting travelling village, or Prince Harry of England and when I see it I can say “ah, yes, an 81, of course.”

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