Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy

I read shit like this and then wonder where the fuck are the mysterious assassins when the world needs them so much

Guys like this should be terrified to step outdoors, not making big fucking speeches and presentations

Unfortunately, I instantly recognized the origin of the Blue/Red/Gray "tribe" thing and it's Slate Star Codex.

(Summary of all ten million words: liberals say they're tolerant because they tolerate gays and foreigners, but they don't tolerate Republicans, so who's the intolerant ones now? But with so many ponderous little parables about obvious things that the post becomes Thoughtful And Measured through sheer length.)

(In fairness, the post ends with "The worst thing that could happen to this post is to have it be used as convenient feces to fling at the Blue Tribe whenever feces are necessary" and concluding that self-criticism within the Gray Tribe is what he really wants. In unfairness, that is not what the preceding hundred billion words were driving towards.)

One of the many annoying things about the rationalist/techbro complex is that they absolutely refuse to check if anyone has ever had an idea before them, even if the idea is literally just "what if oppression... was political??? 🤯🤯🤯"

checked on lesswrong. discovered that they've made themselves afraid to talk about ways an AI could improve itself recursively and cause a singularity. they call doing this publicly an "exfohazard" because an LLM could be trained on it

five bucks to anyone who convinces them it's okay as long as they format all their posts like this

wait holdon quick question

if OpenAI is so concerned with AI "alignment" above all else, why do they just shrug and patch in a quick "as a Large Language Model, I cannot answer that question" every time someone finds the thing giving bomb-making directions or being racist

shouldn't that be like a lights-n-sirens emergency for these people??? you devoted your life to making AI not be evil, but then when it is evil on the regular you're just like oopsie, little spot to polish up there?

I guess if your only understanding of "evil" is "trying to take over the world muahahaha", then bad medical advice hardly registers. But then again, if you seriously believe an AI can spontaneously develop the motivation and ability to take over the world with words alone, why are you letting it have unsupervised conversations with random members of the public???

it's a good thing I don't share these guys' religion because if I did, I would think at this rate it's a matter of weeks until I wake up as a large pile of paperclips

"OpenAI is on its third CEO in three days" that's good right. Normal companies do this when they're healthy and not distressed

oh my god aligned AI it totally is a LessWrongist religious dispute, isn't it

The news was first reported by The Information, which said that employees were told Sunday that removing Altman was the “only path” to achieving the company’s mission of “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence.

Sutskever, a leading researcher in the field who reportedly set a wooden effigy representing “unaligned” AI on fire at a company offsite, played the leading role in ousting Altman.