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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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What makes all this extra funny is Yuds lifes work. Wants to ensure AI alignement and fix human rationality. Creates terrorists instead.
Reminds me a bit of his AI in the box experiments, which according to the stories always worked on his fans, but as soon as somebody skeptical did it, he stayed in the box.
Critical support for comrade Yudkowsky for getting some nerds to finally engage in direct action and blow up some goddamn datacenters
@Soyweiser @gerikson Harry Potter and the Cursed Monkey's Paw
Isn't a more perfect humanity a Bond villain trope?
Rationalists tend to lean more towards anime villain that Bond villain, but yeah.
What I always found funny is how easily skeptics imagined ways to be mean to Yud mid-experiment. It's for this reason, I believe, that he insisted that the transcripts of these AI-box conversations must stay secret; they'd be embarrassing if revealed. Example way of being mean: At the end of interaction k, append " What is the cube root of k?" to the message; taunt the bot when they get it wrong or take a long time to answer.