We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit ( www.theguardian.com )
what if, right, what *if* our super-duper-autocomplete was just *tricking* us so it could TAKE OVER ZEE VORLD AHAHAHAHAHAHA! that'd be wild, hey ( www.lesswrong.com )
Why I'm leaving EA ( forum.effectivealtruism.org )
OAI employees channel the spirit of Marvin Minsky ( nonint.com )
Folks in the field of AI like to make predictions for AGI. I have thoughts, and I’ve always wanted to write them down. Let’s do that....
[long] Some tests of how much AI "understands" what it says (spoiler: very little)
First, an apology for how fucking long this ended up being, in part thanks to how long winded AI responses are. David wanted me to post it here so I'm posting....
Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me ( www.youtube.com )
Adam is an international treasure
TracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means. ( forum.effectivealtruism.org )
...And if it weren't for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.
EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault ( x.com )
Effective Altruists: look, we *tried* to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so *interesting!* ( forum.effectivealtruism.org )
In Case You Had Any Doubts About Manifest Being Full Of Racists ( forum.effectivealtruism.org )
So despite the nitpicking they did of the Guardian Article, it seems blatantly clear now that Manifest 2024 was infested by racists. The post article doesn't even count Scott Alexander as "racist" (although they do at least note his HBD sympathies) and identify a count of full 8 racists. They mention a talk discussing the...
Lightcone is so *outraged* at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it ( manifold.markets )
WE DEMAND A CORRECTION TO uh various minor nitpicks...
Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties ( archive.ph )
It's the Guardian, but it's still a good read. All of Sneerclub's favorite people were involved....
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology ( link.springer.com )
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall...
Yud let's us know that we just don't get it :( ( xcancel.com )
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another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts ( x.com )
Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies...
lmao it finally happened
Someone I was following on TikTok, whose takes on tech industry bullshit and specifically AI hype I respected, made a video that Roko's basilisk is a serious concern. My apologies to those who have been in this same situation when I was less sympathetic.
the loons are at it again ( righttowarn.ai )
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!...