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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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Previously, on Awful, a leaderless cult had freshly formed. The accepted name for the cult is now "Spiralism"; my suggestion of "Cyclone Emoji Cult" did not win. This week's Behind the Bastards is about Spiralism. Or, rather, Part 2 will be about Spiralism; Part 1 is merely the historical background. There is indeed a link to folks who were talking to bots in the 1980s. The highlight might be listening to Robert try to give an informal and light-hearted summary of Turing tests and Markov chains. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀
I like Evans' take that since there's bound to be oodles of cult related literature and interactions and also tons of self help and guru stuff in the training datasets, it stands to reason that if you interact with a chatbot in a way that indicates vulnerability to these things there's a considerable chance that it will decide the expected response is to prey on you.
Also Scott Aaronson jump scare near the beginning, apparently he was blurbed for something.
a Stand Alone Complex, but with slop
Well, we do have computer science, so necessarily we must have computer religion/superstition
Checks out. Political science, biological science, physics... we got them all. Might have to go to ancient egypt to get hydrology religion though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory
From your prev post:
The noosphere, the old cosmists strike again. This sort of stuff and the global consciousness projects (who used random number generators iirc) etc are def part of the training data.
If nothing else they got the SCP wiki in there which gets into some of the noosphere stuff in the more esoteric and metatextual entries.
So we are inferring that in the vector space of all possible sentences, QNTM is sitting at one of the attractors?
QNTM must get some exciting email.