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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Oh hey a blog: https://www.encultured.ai/blog.html -- Because of course they're an rationalist AI alignment / AI gaming startup pivoting to healthcare
Part of their bold vision: AI agents that heal not just your cells, but also your society :')
Translation: they don't know the first thing about healthcare but want the big US healthcare grifting dollars anyway.
Surely they can tell us what they actually worked on in the gaming space in the past few years. Right? Right?
Edit: (I recall hearing stories about roguelike developers using AI to help produce roguelikes, the conclusion was (this was more than a year back btw) it works great if you just need some quick content, dialogue trees, stuff like that. But there also was one person who was trying (and failing) to create a roguelike in which all content was LLM created. Didn't seem to work well. (Which is funny in a way, as this mirrors the experience of PCG (procedural content generation) in roguelikes a ~decade earlier. Good tool for small parts, doesn't scale to properly interesting content. I should ask how the LLM stuff is doing now).
the AI what now?
Here's what they write:
AI alignment via the power of videogames:
Healthcare pivot:
Couldn't find any details beyond that. Perhaps one of them read way too much Friendship is Optimal but they didn't actually having any gaming chops so never got anywhere.
EDIT: More details here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ALkH4o53ofm862vxc/announcing-encultured-ai-building-a-video-game
Wow, they actually succeeded at their plans. I'm impressed. "we expect to be much more careful than other companies to ensure that recursively self-improving intelligent agents don’t form within our game and break out onto the internet!" Well done!
It's real, all of it. John Titor the time traveler? He's real. AI gods? We could build them.
John Titor came back in time to stop the creation of a superintelligence. He does this by secretly founding, co-founding, or co-co-founding various silicon valley startups that don't actually do anything; but that sound good to venture capitalists with too much money.
The money is secretly funneled to good causes like food banks, adopting puppies, and maintaining the natural habitat of burrowing owls. Thus averting the end of the world. Encultured AI is part of this plan. They do nothing-- for the good of the earth.
Now that is a name I have not heard in a long long time.
@V0ldek @sailor_sega_saturn remember all those awful NFT games? I imagine it's like that, but stupider