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istewart @ istewart @awful.systems
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Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way

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  • Why did this immediately give me a flashback to Donald Trump yelling, "when it comes to great steaks, I've just raised the stakes!"

    • Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way

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  • Jobs is Tech Jesus, but Antennagate is only recorded in one of the apocryphal books

    • Bostrom's advice for the ethical treatment of LLMs: remind them to be happy

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  • It could also be swapped out for nothing. The people in charge could figure out that this stuff is costing more than it's making, turn the servers off, and deactivate the user-facing features or leave them as vestigial stubs.

    There's more evidence right now for that scenario, and it would generate an awful lot of e-waste. Tell me, are you up to date on process improvements for recycling or repurposing that much e-waste?

    • Bostrom's advice for the ethical treatment of LLMs: remind them to be happy

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  • what if I continually remind it to be flatulent instead? has anyone tried that?

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024

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  • This holiday season, treat your loved ones to the complete printed set* of the original Yudkowsky for the low introductory price of $1,299.99. And if you act now, you'll also get 50% off your subscription to the exciting new upcoming Yudkowsky, only $149 per quarter!

    *This fantastic deal made possible by our friends at Amazon Print-on-Demand. Don't worry, they're completely separate from the thoughtless civilization-killers in the AWS and AI departments whom we have taught you to fear and loathe

    (how far are we from this actually happening?)

    • here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them

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  • Do you think they will manage to issue a coherent Incredible Journey post before their mugshot turns up in their local newspaper?

    • here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them

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  • At the very least, the supply chain of meth is likely to be more robust than the supply chain for GMO mouth bacteria.

    • here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them

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  • We are, of course, assuming that the author continues to "micro"dose.