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the loons are at it again (righttowarn.ai)
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this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!

there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Computer scientist accidentally ruins the world by having his p=pn algorithm iterate over automatically generated programs and asks it 'does this program halt or not?'

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

That's basically how the point-of-view character gets roped in, except instead of threatening the whole world he only threatened Wolverhampton, he was still in grad school, and it was a graphics algorithm.

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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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