"Consider it from the perspective of someone who does not exist and therefore has no preferences. Who would they pick?"
Max Tegmark has taken a break from funding neo-Nazi media to blather about Artificial General Intelligence.
As humanity gets closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
The first clause of the opening line, and we've already hit a "citation needed".
He goes from there to taking a prediction market seriously. And that Aschenbrenner guy who thinks that Minecraft speedruns are evidence that AI will revolutionize "science, technology, and the economy".
You know, ten or fifteen years ago, I would have disagreed with Tegmark about all sorts of things, but I would have granted him default respect for being a scientist.
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed story:
For this year’s ICLR, Guha, the Northeastern computer scientist, turned in a study about how successfully large language models can write code when used by students with little programming experience. Conceptualizing and designing the experiment, running it on dozens of undergraduates across three colleges, and writing up the results took him and his team more than two years. Last fall, he got back four anonymous reviews, including the one complimenting his “lucid narrative.” It declared, too, that “this paper heralds a new dawn for the LLM community” and the analysis was “rendered in an approachable fashion, ensuring it is digestible for a broad readership.”
"We spent more than two years normalizing the eating of faces by leopards, but we never imagined that the leopards would eat our faces!"
Russo acknowledged that he uses generative AI to help him write reviews — emphasis on help. He said that he always reads the paper and writes his own response, but occasionally asks ChatGPT to analyze it and come up with counterarguments for him to consider incorporating. Similarly, other scientists said that they value the tool for its ability to distill technical concepts and suggest relevant research to cite.
I'm sorry, but this is just morally bankrupt. "Our process is only powered by a forsaken child during the intermediate stages. The final product is completely orphan-free by weight."
J, K. Rowling, skull enthusiast:
Khelif, who went on to win Olympic gold despite the harassment, reportedly filed a lawsuit alleging cyberbullying against Rowling (Elon Musk is also named in the suit). Shortly after the lawsuit became public on August 13, Rowling went silent on X, leading to speculation from many onlookers that she had pushed her transphobic narrative too far. On August 23, though, she again appeared on the platform, spreading more false and misleading commentary on Khelif. Her first post was a quote from a transphobic hit piece against Khelif by Colin Wright, the former managing editor of the far-right website Quillette.
Have you seen a lot of racism towards black people on the fediverse?
Yes.
It doesnt make much sense telling people not to post on a platform that needs it more than anything.
It doesn't make much sense commenting here without reading the actual post so that you know what the synopsis means by "post less".
Jesus H. Fuck, you're boring.
"Pronouns" with a hard R
(thinks)
Cum Jabbar
"It's garbage that generates giant rat dicks now, but I can't wait to hand my life over to it tomorrow!"
It would be legit funny to have a "swimsuit edition" that just provided old-school consumer reviews of swimsuits, evaluating them for comfort, durability, etc. No models, only graphs.
"It would be hard to abuse a law that forcibly sterilized everybody with an IQ under 90 provided that the person scored that low on an objective test blindly graded." —Richard Hanania
Wouldn't a Hallmark movie be about a young woman from the big city who finds love and fulfillment when she has to return to her small hometown and manage the local bakery, including the wacky antics of its mixed-sex staff?
First reaction: "Wait, that was in Nature?"
Second reaction: "Oh, Nature Scientific Reports. The 'we have Nature at home' of science journals."
Whan that Aprille with the fuck?