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  • there’s this type of reply guy on fedi lately who does the “well actually querying LLMs only happens in bursts and training is much more efficient than you’d think and nvidia says their gpus are energy-efficient” thing whenever the topic comes up

    This kind of person (also happened a lot with cryptocurrencies) always goes 'that isn't how it works, this isn't a problem' then doesn't explain what the mistake is you are supposed to have made, and then a few weeks/months/days/search later it is revealed that it was how it works and it is a huge problem. And it is so annoyingly common im very happy with the moderation here.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024
  • I have such sights to show you And more

    About half of evopsychgoogle's tweets are also about him and his wife.

    He and his wife (also a piece of work) have a very strange poly relationship btw, it seems to be more a constant dominance struggle than a loving poly relationship.

    And you know how a lot of these people when faced with the slightest pushback turn further and further right. 2013

    90% of the weird evo psych women on their period things you ever heard about, also him. (And while I don't get the American fascination with strippers/strip clubs, I do get it is an important macho man culture thing for American men to do things with/around strip clubs so cudos for him that he managed to trick the university into sponsoring his visits).

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • Some 100 times+ compression, very fast and also at very low power (because it was inside the brain), and lossless.

    And not stated but because it was inside the brain, I assume possible memory usage also wasn't that high etc. Sorry have no direct link to the specs.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024
  • Considering the view counts a common thought. The amount of twitter followers vs yt subs vs actual views is funny. They even tried a tiktok.

    And they are trying so hard. Andrew Tate! Hogwarts Legacy! Destiny (the streamer, not the game, betting on the wrong horse there folks) Slapping at the Oscars! Pandemics!

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    Balaji's movie "Technodemocracy" bombs
  • the same setting as his four-hour podcast calling for “tech Zionism”

    such edge much oof.

    E: slightly annoyed at that site for making scrolling with the keyboard impossible because the picture thing takes the focus so when one shows up the keyboard commands flips the pictures instead of scrolling.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024
  • Amazing.

    I also remember another time people did the 'let two AI's (no idea what time it was at the time, certainly not an LLM, some other ML technique) talk to each other, but in a actual production setting (E:I was wrong on the setting, see the article for better info->), the Facebook/Meta one (First link I could find on google, didn't read it, just a way to find out more for people who never heard about it). But then it started to produce gibberish/'their own language'. Of course this was also a sign of it 'waking up'.

    And I note again that in the LLM experiment, the 'AGI's' are still keeping perfectly fine to the bounds of the experiment, even if they do or do not directly reference the researcher. They still play into the fiction, as talking to the researcher about the other AI is part of the fiction. It would be more interesting if they did something unexpected than regurgitate video game ingame notes.

    static dot dot dot emergency dot dot dot shutdown

    lol

    'multiple realities'

    Come on, I have written similar things while roleplaying as an AI. The first is useful when you need a quick break to go to the toilet, and the second is a good excuse because you made a mistake a real fictional AI couldn't make.

    E: also funny that they worry about the shoggoth behind the friendly face and then get freaked out when the AI's talk in normal science fiction fluff to each other, and it doesn't become incoherently weird. (like the example above).

  • Real people's real problems? Nah, it's AI Welfare Debate Week here at the EA Forums
  • Doubt that is needed. GLaDOS could just label the doors 'deadly experiments run by AGI' and enough of them would rationalize themselves into it being some sort of 4d chess move pulled to hide the actual safe room of things the AGI doesn't want you to discover and walk in.

    If GLaDOS includes a small typo on the door it would convince even more of them.

  • We regret to inform you that Ray Kurzweil is back on his bullshit
  • How much worse it must be for the people in the lemmieverse (are we calling it that?) who don't have accounts on awful.sys directly. The neuralink is life extension (unless you are a monkey) that proves Ray is right person is still going at it.

  • Interview with a former Effective Vampire^M Altruist.

    The interview itself

    Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

    Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

    "No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

    > > > https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

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    Eliezer complements Musk, Musk negs Eliezer

    Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

    Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

    In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

    Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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