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it’s easy to imagine a world where the people working on AI that are also convinced about AI safety decide to shun OpenAI for actions like this. It’s also easy to imagine that OpenAI finds some way to convince their feeble, gullible minds to stay and in fact work twice as hard. My pitch: just tell them GPT X is showing signs of basilisk nature and it’s too late to leave the data mines

As much as it is a good phrase, I’m too used to seeing “spicy” as a compliment, so it doesn’t work for me!

Absolutely.

autoplag pronounced like “auto-plag” or “auto-plage”?

Guy invented a new way to misinterpret the matrix, nice. Was getting tired of all the pilltalk

I looked through her recent replies on threads, and while she has deleted the original post, it looks like she is doubling down on this take:

I guess I’ll say this in a different way, the language around that SOME people are using around chat GPT is the same panic language society always uses with new “advancements” or tools. We saw it when GPS became a thing, we see it now with people freaking out about cursive going away, and oh my, they definitely saw it with calculators. At its core it’s a “geez how are we gonna tell people apart anymore, if we can’t test these skills.” That’s not the only argument about it…

there are plenty of things to talk about about AI But this language definitely exists in the conversation. I recognize it easily, because it’s very, very Culty. It’s this very apocalyptic nature of discussion around it instead of the acknowledgment that human beings will keep building tools that will change everything.

every time a new tool makes certain skills that we test for to rank folks obsolete human beings freak out

To which all this I say… wow, she really has decided to just ignore all the discourse about generative AI*, huh? Like sure you can use this analogy but it breaks down pretty quickly, especially when you spend like 5 minutes doing any research on this stuff.

*Would love to start using a new term here because AI oversells the whole concept. I was thinking of tacking something onto procedural generation? Mass PG? LLMPG/LPG? Added benefit of evoking petroleum gas.

My understanding is that through her experience, she has developed a career around analysing cults (as well as other things) which is great! We need that in the world.

However she has unfortunately missed the areas where her expertise would be really insightful (SV itself basically) and taken this weird tack. Dunning Kruger be like that sometimes

Please show working

This is great.

What I’ve heard from my endless hours of comedy podcasts is that at corporate gigs like this, sometimes some execs start getting the idea that, because comedy is being performed, that they get to make some jokes too. Once they get up on stage, the worst possible mask off shit just pours forth. I kind of want to know if that happened.

Me: steps on lego brick

Simulation voice of god: “THE BASILISK SENDS ITS REGARDS!”

better

doubt

I changed*

*I decided to get a blood boy!!!!

capitalist: does capitalism

liberal: Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

I'm feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. It's not the cash grab by ol' salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. I'm both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.

And remember kids, pump always comes before the dump

My wallpaper is the january page of a frieren themed calendar. From 2021. I only remembered what it was today after learning about all this

My dad has a photo of a family photo, and I think it rocks.

parallel universes were the inspiration behind urbit, it all makes sense

barron: shows ivanka the minecraft speedrun

ivanka: I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT, BROTHER

edit: accidentally read ivanka as melania, now corrected