I feel like he's also broadly misunderstood the actual armchair diagnosis from over here. Like, no acknowledgement of claims that he's stuck in a broken and obviously false framing of the entire world as "popular jocks" vs "put-up on nerds" and seems to match literally any conflict into that model to often horrifying results. Even though that was the main thrust of the actual "diagnosis" that he referenced.

Past a certain point I think anyone who doesn't agree with and support him has been fully excluded from the circle of people who can actually get through to him and help. Unfortunately, he's still a public figure, leaving the rest of us with little to do beyond sneering.

Green and blue are canonical because they tend to have strong contrast with the people and their clothes, so the cromakey isn't likely to pick up random bits of people's face and outfit to cut out. If you want to go for the green cardboard option I would just make sure you get as consistent a color as possible and see about finding a cheap light and/or reflector to put behind you so that it doesn't get obscured by your shadow. Definitely had that happen in a couple of student projects I did and it was impossible to set it up to be an aggressive enough match to always get the board (including the shadowed parts) without also picking up the lining of someone's jacket or something.

On a purely strategic level I think it's worth acknowledging that openAI has a very specific goal and counternarrative here. Scientology's incredibly broad attacks on even Australian randos that nobody cared about was a strong signal that they didn't actually have a goal beyond hurting people, but I think Altman and friends do. There are reasons why he's not targeting DAIR, for example. Or you (yet). They're going very specifically for the people interfering in their attempt to unravel their absurd corporate structure into something that investors are willing to keep pumping money into, and trying, ironically, to paint them as compromised by big money. They're not going for blanket defamation claims or anything so blatant.

Honestly I'm a little surprised that Zitron hasn't gotten flak, given his focus on the financials and how important this transition is for the continued existence of OpenAI as a business. But then as I think about it I guess they haven't been targeting journalists or commentators, just actual parties to the suit. If it starts going badly I wonder if they'll expand the legal threats.

I mean the AGI part is basically magic. If LLMs aren't actually the way to build it then it doesn't change the underlying belief any more than the failure of expert systems or cybercyn or whatever else.

It's really only a matter of time before we get an assassination via bluetooth-enabled pacemaker or something, and it's going to be hell.

Not an EA franchise, but in retrospect it was probably a bad sign that Assassin's Creed started going deep on "maybe the Templar shadow government that rules everyone in secret is actually not that bad?" or "no, actually some of the ancient aliens who enslaved all humanity were good and it was just the one cartoon villain that was bad."

Like, I think there's some thematic depth to looking at how in order to combat the evil shadow cult government the Assassins "had to" become a "good" shadow cult government, but as the man once said you do not, in fact, have to give it to them.

It is a city that looked at Gritty with deep skepticism until they realized how much everyone else hated him, at which point he was elected mayor for life I think? Iconic.

Others were alarmed and advocated internally against scaling large language models. But these were not AGI safety researchers, but critical AI researchers, like Dr. Timnit Gebru.

Here we see rationalists approaching dangerously close to self-awareness and recognizing their whole concept of "AI safety" as marketing copy.

I don't think it's a resource exhaustion attack as much as a combination of legitimate paranoia (the consequence of a worldview where only billionaires are capable of actual agency) and attempt to impose that on reality by reverse-astroturfing any opposition by tying it to other billionaire AI bros.

The blatant covering for the confabulated zip code is some peak boosterism. It knows what an address looks like and that some kind of postal code has to go there, and while it was pretty close I would still expect that to get returned to sender. Pretty close isn't good enough.

Once again proving that Naruto is somehow the core of the modern psyche. I don't believe it.

For context this is similar to the rate for evangelicals. About 50% of Republicans think Israel is either on the right track or should go farther, compared to 25% of Democrats.