Anecdotally, it took like one and a half week from the c-suite okaying using copilot to people beginning to consider googling beneath them and to start elevating to me the literal dumbest shit just because copilot was having a hard time with it.
the genomic emancipation of humanity
ffs, the euphemisms keep piling on today.
I don't think him having previously done undefined PR work for companies that include alleged AI startups is the smoking gun that mastopost is presenting it as.
Going through a Zitron long form article and leaving with the impression that he's playing favorites between AI companies seems like a major failure of reading comprehension.
I'm not a native english speaker, how else was he supposed to pronounce it?
They've also contested all fines and haven't paid a dime of the ~18.000$ total so far, while probably paying several times that in lawyer's fees.
Maybe this means that while 500$ is peanuts to them having the repeat offense in the books probably isn't good in the long run, but I'm not a texan lawyer.
Imo because the whole topic of superforecasters and prediction markets is both undercriticized and kaleidoskopically preposterous in a way that makes it feel like you shouldn't broach the topic unless you are prepared to commit to some diatribe length posting.
Which somebody should, it's a shame there is yet no one single place you can point to and say "here's why this thing is weird and grifty and pretend science while striclty promoted by the scientology of AI, and also there's crypto involved".
Basically their only hope is that an AI under their control takes over the world.
They are pretty dominant in the LLM space and are already having their people fast tracked into positions of influence, while sinking tons of cash into normalizing their views and enforcing their terminology.
Even though they aren't trying to pander to religious americans explicitly, their millenialism with the serial numbers filed off worldview will probably feel familiar and cozy to them.
clicked one of the livejournal links at random:
Personally, I'd have liked to see him touch on some of the more interesting heresies in our culture, like:
- Children are sexual creatures
aaaand I'm out.
It's from today's acx, apparently they offered free samples to the siskind household.
edit: this is not sarcasm.
Seeing as incel apologetics occasionally appear even in mainstream rat/ea outlets like slate star or shetl (nerds are an oppressed people unfairly stigmatized by the fairer sex, and other Good Guy grievances), one has to wander what the e/a calculus is in regards to doing the most good with your genitals.
Like, keeping your effective altruist higher-ups in peak effectiveness by shielding them from sexual frustration has got to be worth a few million billion far future simulated lives, at the trifling cost of a little of your time and some lube, right?
I can't imagine the peer pressure dynamics in such a dating environment to be too healthy.
Once [a company] can make more money by screwing its customers, that screw-job becomes a fait accompli.
Architeuthis
joined 2 years ago
All the stuff about ASI is basically theology, or trying to do armchair psychology to Yog-Sothoth. If autonomous ASI ever happens it's kind of definitionally impossible to know what it'll do, it's beyond us.
The simulating synapses is hard stuff I can take or leave. To argue by analogy, it's not like getting an artificial feather exactly right was ever a bottleneck to developing air travel once we got the basics of aerodynamics down.