It's March 2025. Everyone has resigned from OpenAI except Altman, a single H1B programmer, 50 lawyers, and the guy who refills the keurig. The company is worth $4 trillion.
twitter comment:
they made something that actually does not run doom, which is a first at least
whoops! that was our error! It's actually "Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment" which is at least an acronym. Fixed.
it was acausally enabled before you clicked on it, for your comfort and convenience, like the new ad tracker built into Firefox 128
they're still least worst, but "oh the fuck no" is the correct reaction
I am well acquainted with this genre of article and I ain't reading all that. Not bothering to be involved with this example was the obviously correct decision, even if Trace kept nagging after I'd already said "no thank you" (that famous rationalist grasp of consent).
This in the companion article caught my eye:
While I am not personally a rationalist,
Trace, I have some unfortunate news for you.
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I was at Manifest as a volunteer, and I also saw much of the same behaviour as you. If I had known scientific racism or eugenics were acceptable topics of conversation there, I wouldn’t have gone. I’m increasingly glad I decided not to organise a talk.
EA needs to recognise that even associating with scientific racists and eugenicists turns away many of the kinds of bright, kind, ambitious people the movement needs. I am exhausted at having to tell people I am an EA ‘but not one of those ones’. If the movement truly values diversity of views, we should value the people we’re turning away just as much.
my brother in the Acausal Robot God, I have some unfortunate news about what your fellow EAs have espoused for the past twenty years.
Austin from Manifest responds that leftist views would obviously much more damaging to EA than racist ones, because reasons.
and yet you signed up to Awful Systems
As a large language model, absolutely
BEAT SKELTON on Twitter points out:
MY ONLY CONTRIBUTION TO THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE DAY IS THAT THE RADIOLOGISTS PROBABLY DIDN'T ACTUALLY USE AN AI, THEY JUST TOLD MISHA THEY DID TO MAKE HIM SHUT UP.
and - a key point - his prospective tradwaifus don't want him
gotta keep that power level under wraps