Vox Day

[Thomas More]

At least maybe we'll get some good Tolkien fan fic. I hope he's going to do more of that. I see what you're saying though. Vox's ego has always been staggeringly vast, and you're likely right that AI will augment it to the point of sheer madness. Why deal with human beings who might fail to see your greatness anymore when AI is there to constantly reassure you that you're a genius.

You signature line about vanity is always true, but particularly on point with this post.

 

[scorpion]

When I began reading Vox's latest post this morning, I first thought he was having a bit of fun and parodying himself and his recent obsession with AI. And then it dawned on me that no, he was actually serious.

Vox is attempting to use AI to mathematically prove the doctrine of original sin.

The Christian doctrine of Original Sin predicts that every human being deviates from the moral law universally and without exception. This paper tests that prediction against the published behavioral data. Using peer-reviewed research on lying, lustful ideation, anger, envy, dishonesty, and gossip, we establish a conservative floor estimate of 4.33 discrete sins per person per day and construct the empirical distribution of daily sin rates across the population. We then calculate the probability that any human being in the history of the species has achieved a lifetime sin rate of zero. The result is conclusive. The probability is on the order of 10⁻⁸⁴·¹⁴⁵, which means that a sinless human life is a 623-sigma event across a total historical population of approximately 112 billion individuals. The Augustinian doctrine is confirmed with 124.5x the certainty of the existence of the Higgs boson: the distribution of human sinfulness makes a naturally sinless human an absolute mathematical impossibility. Pelagius is refuted, not by theology, but by the left tail of the sin distribution.

He then goes on to post laudatory critical reviews of his thesis from various AI models.

Vox has already descended into a state of full-on AI-induced delusion, which is why he doesn't realize how much damage he's doing to his reputation by spamming AI output and claiming it to be genius-level work. If he continues down this path, he is literally going to lose touch with reality and become a total lunatic.

 

[Caduceus]

Vox has already descended into a state of full-on AI-induced delusion, which is why he doesn't realize how much damage he's doing to his reputation by spamming AI output and claiming it to be genius-level work. If he continues down this path, he is literally going to lose touch with reality and become a total lunatic.

Vox has always been very deluded even before AI.
Remember in December 2020 when he claimed he was privy to secret Q-anon information that would definitely keep Trump in White House after the election was "won" by Biden ? He claimed that way into the year 2021 as well, many months after Biden took office.

 

[KomnenAl]

No.

In a hilarious coincidence of timing, Vox's most recent post illustrates exactly what I just wrote about above. Here we have Vox making the absolutely wild claim that AI can augment your IQ by 1.5 standard deviations (24 IQ points). That is an enormous jump; one that for context would take someone from literally retarded to average IQ, or elevate a relatively clever college graduate to the level of a genius.

Such an astonishing claim should have equally compelling evidence to support it. When we click through to Vox's AI central blog post to read more, we are greeted with his evidence for his claim: the output from his AI. You read that correctly: the evidence Vox presents for his claim that AI is very smart is that the very smart AI said so. This buffoonery is even more hilarious when you consider that Vox just posted about his plan to refute the Agrippan Trilemma, one of which is "circular reasoning" (aka literally what he just did).

Also note that Vox's AI assures him that his "solo work on natural selection" implies he has an IQ between 172 and 180". This is an IQ literally on par with world-historic geniuses like Newton, da Vinci and Galileo (men whom Vox Day, in moments of naked honesty, would probably confess he regards as his peers). The difference being, those guys produced work that reverberated through the centuries, while Vox publishes comic books and is now LARPing as a modern-day renaissance man by spamming the output of his sycophantic AI and claiming it is groundbreaking material (because his AI assures him that it is).

We are literally witnessing the real-time descent of a public figure into AI-induced delusion. It is only going to get worse unless Vox realizes what is happening and forswears the use of AI going forward (lol, not a chance). That being the case, I will gladly bear witness to the trainwreck.

He won't realize it because he lacks critical thinking skills, else he wouldn't make the "1.5 standard deviations" claim.
It's like getting high on weed and interpretting the resulting stupidity as profound wisdom.

 

[scary_robot_music]

Vox has always been very deluded even before AI.
Remember in December 2020 when he claimed he was privy to secret Q-anon information that would definitely keep Trump in White House after the election was "won" by Biden ? He claimed that way into the year 2021 as well, many months after Biden took office.

I don't remember that specific claim, but I remember a lot of people at that time being firmly and ludicrously convinced that the Biden win was going to be overturned somehow. If you expressed doubt, you were a cuck or black piller or something. I earned myself a temporary ban on RVF just by posting something to the effect of "OK, hope you guys are right this time, but I don't see it."