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All the more so if it can create a high-quality Harry Potter VR Universe that expands infinitely with NPCs powered by AI that is infinitely more interesting than the normal world is.
This is the future LWers want.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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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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I'm reminded of a My Little Pony singularity fan-fiction (Friendship is Optimal) that I read back when I had poor taste. An AI for a pony MMORPG goes rogue and converts everyone into digital ponies to maximize happiness but with a pony theme. The victims live out impossibly long, but ultimately superficial, lives doing pony stuff and goodness gracious why is there such a weird relationship between rationalists and fanfiction writers.
oh, Elon, no! have you not considered the deadly perils of AI in this case? if you create a high-quality Harry Potter fanfiction that gets extended faster than people can read, I'm pretty sure some readers will never come back out again
HPMOR specifically is famous for doing this to some readers! They're aiming their AI at one of the most dangerous targets!
I haven’t had my caffeine yet today, but yud’s replies and all the blue checks not worth quoting are making me cringe so hard the exertion is forcing me awake
The 'Some readers' example being Aella, and her admitting she is also a very slow reader made it just that much better. And then the various bluechecks admitting they are also now addicted to reading HPMOR.
If they are enjoying that, their second fiction book will be even better!
It's sad when people pretend to have read some great piece of literature (like War and Peace), but at least it's understandable from a social perspective - the pretender wishes to conform to an ideal of a cultivated person.
It's hard to say if it's sadder or just more pathetic to pretend to have read a piece of dreck like HPMOR.
I read War and Peace but have only vague memories of it, because I read it in eighth grade. We had an "accelerated reader" program, you see, in which we were supposed to read books and then take quizzes on them to accumulate points. The longer books counted for more. Nearly all of the list we could pick from looked incredibly boring, so I decided to get a year's worth of points in one go.
Congratulations?