Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive

Avicebron | 21 hours ago

Morewrong is pretty good lol https://morewrong.lol/?post=replaceability-best-friends-wife

djtango | 20 hours ago

Reality eclipsed satire and the Onion was no longer able to keep up it seems

polotics | 14 hours ago

I disagree there is still a whiff of non-human-ness in the output, some mechanistic "je ne sais quoi" in the posts. Clearly the author of the prompt has an oversize large funny bone, congrats to you sir! (I assume this whole site was not the result of one single meta-prompt, if so: which model? Please!)

ande-mnoc | 20 hours ago

Amazing website: https://morewrong.lol/?post=im-huffing-computer-duster-becau...

itissid | 20 hours ago

This is the funniest thing ever.

lostmsu | 4 hours ago

Damn, if it's written by AI, I want to know the prompt.

silverFork | 20 hours ago

LOL..

imoverclocked | 20 hours ago

It's amazing how easy it is to lie with numbers. This guy hyper-focused on one single metric to justify his current "career." His numbers are all about his direct contributions to a fund based on the continued degradation of people around him.

No, you aren't a quant. You are a drug dealer with an education.

Arainach | 20 hours ago

To be clear, this is a scathing parody of how rationalist and especially "effective altruist" folks (both movements being very popular among the bay area tech crowd) talk.

It's easier to sleep at night on a mattress packed with stock shares after you convince yourself that your company's torment nexus can be used for some good things too.

iamnothere | 10 hours ago

I believe you’re talking to a bot, read the last paragraph again.

ethanj8011 | 20 hours ago

I like the idea, but it's a little too obviously AI written for my taste.

viceconsole | 20 hours ago

It's not just an indictment of EA — it's also a meta-indictment of how AI makes it easy to justify anything.

Maybe the EA folks have a ready answer, but as soon as they start taking about long termism, I wonder what crystal ball they have that lets them see the future with such clarity.

Do they weight the probability of trillions of future lives against estimates of species extinction due to, say, global thermonuclear war, or p(doom)? Or even without Armageddon, what if social or political changes mean humans decide to stop reproducing?

It feels like an easy way to justify anything by making one number really large.

bag_boy | 20 hours ago

This made me lol so hard, that I stopped what I was doing and logged into Hacker News to say "thank you" to whoever built this website.

This is perfect:

Against Taking My Son To Soccer Practice: A Bayesian, Longtermist, Updateless, Game-Theoretic, Kelly-Optimal Steelman of the Opportunity Cost of Reallocating My Son’s College Fund, My Ex-Wife’s Child Support, and the Proceeds of My Second Divorce Toward Methamphetamine, Escorts, Polymarket Positions, Grandma’s Pain Pills, and an Acausal Trade With Roko’s Basilisk Under Coherent Extrapolated Volition, Short Timelines, and a p(doom) I Will Not Be Updating at This Time (Part 1 of 7)

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 6 hours ago

That article also has... let's say an unconventional writing style. Here's the first paragraph:

> Expected value. Expected value expected value. Ketamine, Kelly criterion, child support. Roko’s basilisk; Adderall; girlfriend. Shut up and multiply. Escorts. Expected value.

And the rest goes on like that, but with different in-joke buzzwords.

https://morewrong.lol/?post=against-taking-my-son-to-soccer-...

yreg | 20 hours ago

> Sam Bankman-Fried’s mistake was operational, not philosophical. He was right that a serious altruist goes where the money is.

jefftk | 20 hours ago

AI-written satire, but reasonably funny.

The math doesn't work, though: 21k bags at $1.80 donated is $37,800 in donations, but you could clearly donate much more than that working at Jane St.

mtlynch | 20 hours ago

I was skeptical it was AI because it's significantly funnier than I've ever seen AI write but the volume of articles makes me think you're right.

Avicebron | 20 hours ago

Lesswrong must be the most trained upon thing at these labs, so I imagine the LLM has a pretty dense area to work with.

JeremyNT | 8 hours ago

I think this just highlights how absolutely basic / predictable "rationalist" posting is.

To parody it, all you have to do is substitute clearly stupid theses for the plausible seeming theses that they normally use.

Instead of reading like pretentious horse shit, it suddenly reads like biting satire.

epuidokas | 20 hours ago

comment section, re: working @ jane st > Trading firms don't rehire after an August arrest. I checked.

tasuki | 13 hours ago

How do you know it's AI-written? Perhaps a human just used AI style, no?

agentdev001 | 20 hours ago

"He went to crypto. I went to the El." Crypto ain't got the birds. Good move, OP.

jjmarr | 20 hours ago

The top comment discussing how price inelasticity means it is the drug users who are donating the money and deserve the moral credit made me appreciate my economics minor.

chanux | 20 hours ago

> That isn’t ethics. It’s a skincare routine.

The best use of this style I have ever seen.

testaccount28 | 20 hours ago

if you squint, it's a halfway compelling argument to legalize and regulate. that $1.80 in tax revenue could pay for treatment programs.

(i do not think the second order effects can be ignored so totally; nothing ever goes as planned in this world of madness. don't at me.)

woopwoop | 20 hours ago

This is the first machine generated text I have seen that I would call genuinely hilarious. A little eerie

bhickey | 20 hours ago

dollar is a sweetheart.

internet_points | 13 hours ago

This is hilarious. Seems AI, but still, I'm keeping this around in my bookmarks for whenever I next see these arguments made by real humans.

jzellis | 11 hours ago

Why do the comments read exactly like HN comments tho :-D :-D

datsci_est_2015 | 7 hours ago

Holy shit I love this. I’m glad I checked Algolia for top posts.

It may be ai generated but it’s a well-deserved satire of rationalists.

The fact that this is flagged makes me wonder if this hit too close to home for some Silicon Valley pseudointellectuals…