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The biggest grifts here are the VC’s and megacorps looking to make billions without a damn to the consequences. Yann, unlike Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, is
by reducesuffering 2y ago
The biggest grifts here are the VC’s and megacorps looking to make billions without a damn to the consequences.
Yann, unlike Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, is a consequence of
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
The greatest prank these $-focused people ever pulled on you is that the $ agnostic scientists and researchers who never pursued fortunes are the grifters…
FFS Kokotajlo was giving up 85% of his wealth just for the potential to criticize OpenAI and Scott Alexander just gives his blog proceeds away to research https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-grants-results https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-grants-results
- staticman2 2y agoAs far as I know Scott Alexander isn't an A.I. expert, or even a pretend one on the internet.
- reducesuffering 2y agoAnd yet his concerns predate Hinton and Bengio coming around to them…
- staticman2 2y agoIf my name is John Smith, I am not an A.I. expert and my opinion is "Eliezer Yudkowsky is right about A.I. safety" it would be strange if someone was going around saying "That great humanitarian, John Smith, is right about A.I. safety". It seems like a misattribution of the idea or argument. Just saying. Anyway this article wasn't about A.I. safety it was about a specific technology called LLMs. It's not clear if this discussion is on topic.