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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Superbabies is a backup plan; focus the energy of humanity’s collective genetic endowment into a single generation, and have THAT generation to solve problems like “figure out how to control digital superintelligence

The academic institutions in charge of exploring these ideas are deeply compromised by insane ideologies. And the big commercial entities are too timid to do anything truly novel; once they discovered they had a technology that could potentially make a few tens of billions treating single gene genetic disorders, no one wanted to take any risks; better to take the easy, guaranteed money and spend your life on a lucrative endeavor improving the lives of 0.5% of the population than go for a hail mary project that will result in journalists writing lots of articles calling you a eugenicist.

oh no, not a eugenicist!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

apparently video is just huuuuge

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

this is also why pivot to AI is mostly 200-250 words, not 1200 or 2000 or 8000

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

per link, venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses. a $1b book value is an (imaginary) asset you can hug and hold, a $114m loss is not.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

there were counterarguments that the authors anthropomorphised the LLMs inappropriately - which is a valid objection - and therefore these tests shouldn't have been run at all. The answer to that is that the companies are marketing this shit by anthropomorphising the hell out of it and literally claiming these spicy autocompletes are on the path to artificial super intelligence. So of course cognitive tests are gonna be appropriate.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

see also: Yudowsky has never consumed fiction targeted above middle school

 

the comments are a delight also

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