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by bbor 26d ago
Interesting stance. Out of curiousity, where did you do your doctoral research in AI or cognitive science? Where have you published your rebuttals to the overwhelming consensus?
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by bbor 27d ago
…are you sure a brave stance against safety and welfare is what we need in this moment? Why do you think your conception of the dangers are more accurate than all the scientists who have spent their lives studying this?
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by bbor 27d ago
Well, the screen is the new/groundbreaking part!
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by bbor 27d ago
Oh, sorry: https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf
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by bbor 28d ago
LLMs are applied statistics in the exact same way that you are applied statistics.
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by bbor 28d ago
Weird title, considering the seminal Yudkowsky paper…
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by bbor 29d ago
Wow two amazing replies within seconds! But this is the part that gets me. It's manipulation . That's not an accusation, that's a plain, unbiased description of what it is: you don't want something, then you see an ad,
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by bbor 29d ago
Can someone confirm this part of it? I'm highly, highly dubious that these TVs are sending back random ambient conversation -- for one thing, it would be a truly monstrously-huge stream of data, no? I certainly believe that it sends ba
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by bbor 29d ago
\#BanAdvertising, my friends. It sounds absurd until you think about it for a minute. If billboards and vice ads and this sort of monitoring should be banned, shouldn't it all?
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by bbor 1mo ago
> for monogamous relationships (which incidentally are more common among heterosexual couples, whereas Tinder and its descendants, coming from grindr heritage, tend against) Describing everyone who isn't straight as "tending ag
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by bbor 1mo ago
The concept of… hacking? And yes this is absolutely the first time autonomous software has breached containment. What are you referring to? Perhaps just corporate cyber in general?
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by bbor 1mo ago
I think they forgot about that, thank god. All the innocent citizens we sent there are still being tortured daily, but that somehow lost their interest. God forbid they remember before the midterms and ruin more lives for a stunt… That said
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by bbor 1mo ago
I promise you, they are not publishing these stories for marketing. They listen to the scientists, and know what’s coming. They’re just desperately trying to warn us…
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by bbor 1mo ago
Sinners was a scifi movie...? About vampires in the past...?! Wild. Ditto for Claire Oscura: Expedition 33 , which I thought was high fantasy / steampunk at most. *EDIT:* It appears I'm just being silly, and the Hugos include f
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by bbor 1mo ago
They are powerful tools but they do not have any human understanding - that isn't their optimization target. Ofc the rest is all right on, but I'd quibble with this specific idea. LLMs are absolutely targeted at modeling h
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by bbor 1mo ago
You explained the idea perfectly, which is a great way to see how flawed it is. To say the least, the main driver behind toothpaste adoption was not mass fatalities!
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by bbor 1mo ago
So this article makes sense as long as you assume that LLMs enslave their users into purely-harmful, inescapable cognitive slavery. Other than that, it's pretty grounded!
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by bbor 1mo ago
He was the CEO of Reddit
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by bbor 1mo ago
Climate change is not a well defined term in some way that AGI is not. What's climate change? Is 1.5C climate change? Is 1.0C climate change? Is ozone depletion part of climate change because it eventually changes the climate, or is it
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by bbor 1mo ago
What's your confidence that this will be true 100,000 years from now?
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by bbor 1mo ago
Are you asking about marketing techniques as in advertising strategies, or are you asking about the underlying business model? If the former: the README.md is by far the most important artifact, and specifically the first scroll or two. The
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by bbor 1mo ago
True :( Sadly, ignoring it won't change that.
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by bbor 1mo ago
If you think they're announcing AGI as a marketing decision, you are blinded by the accidents of your birth. Capitalism is strong -- humanity's instinct for communal preservation is stronger, sometimes. And yes, the one deeply-res
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by bbor 1mo ago
And my definition of climate change doesn't entail passing some arbitrary benchmarks[1] that some random person arbitrarily labelled a problem to make it sound more dangerous. It's obvious that these scientists are in bad faith, a
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by bbor 1mo ago
You're overindexing on the past 3-6 months, IMHO.
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by bbor 1mo ago
I'm barely holding it together here so you don't get the full spiel, but a quick skim of Turing's paper clarifies that it was never about a binary test. https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing
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by bbor 1mo ago
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No mo
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by bbor 1mo ago
Also worth a shoutout is the fact that Google also got off scott free for their main monopoly case (the "will they have to sell Chrome?" headlines from a while back). I won't pretend to have even a vague idea of why exactly b
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by bbor 1mo ago
Ha! Never thought I'd see a new twist on that old of a favorite. Chomsky would be thrilled.
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by bbor 1mo ago
If it's a false flag, it's a poor one. A good false flag would affect something that people know and care about at least a little bit, not HuggingFace (which I adore but y'know)

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