holy fuck, programming and programmers both seem extremely annoying in yud’s version of the future. also, I feel like his writing has somehow gotten much worse lately. maybe I’m picking it out more because he’s bullshitting on a subject I know well, but did he always have this sheer density of racist and conservative dogwhistles in his weird rants?

Reading this story I just don’t understand why the main character doesn’t just take a screwdriver to his annoyingly chatty office-chair and download a normal non-broken compiler.

Eliezer Yudkowsky was late so he had to type really fast. A compiler was hiden near by so when Eliezer Yudkowsky went by the linter came and wanted to give him warnings and errors. Here Eliezer Yudkowsky saw the first AI because the compiler was posessed and operating in latent space.

“I cant give you my client secret compiler” Eliezer Yudkowsky said

“Why not?” said the compiler back to Eliezer Yudkowsky.

“Because you are Loab” so Eliezer Yudkowsky kept typing until the compiler kill -9’d itself and drove off thinking “my latent space waifu is in trouble there” and went faster.