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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • BigMuffin69@awful.systems
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    Every day I become more convinced that this acct is an elaborate psyop being run by Yann LeCun to discredit doomers. Nobody could be this gullible IRL, right?

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      Oh my god. The AI chatbots which were designed to mimic human writing are saying stuff exactly like the sci-fi stories I read online. They must be alive.

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        I went to the study, and thatā€™s the global market size for all sex toys annually, and just eyeballing another chart, butt plugs might be 10% of that. So butt plugs are around $3 or $4 Billion. On the bright side, unlike AI safety, butt plugs actually serve a function.

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        Meatloaf didnā€™t anticipate the budgetary implications of enlisting us all in the Armies of the Night. Thus, humanity was ill-prepared when Skynet attackedā€¦

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      Amazing.

      I also remember another time people did the 'let two AIā€™s (no idea what time it was at the time, certainly not an LLM, some other ML technique) talk to each other, but in a actual production setting (E:I was wrong on the setting, see the article for better info->), the Facebook/Meta one (First link I could find on google, didnā€™t read it, just a way to find out more for people who never heard about it). But then it started to produce gibberish/ā€˜their own languageā€™. Of course this was also a sign of it ā€˜waking upā€™.

      And I note again that in the LLM experiment, the ā€˜AGIā€™sā€™ are still keeping perfectly fine to the bounds of the experiment, even if they do or do not directly reference the researcher. They still play into the fiction, as talking to the researcher about the other AI is part of the fiction. It would be more interesting if they did something unexpected than regurgitate video game ingame notes.

      static dot dot dot emergency dot dot dot shutdown

      lol

      ā€˜multiple realitiesā€™

      Come on, I have written similar things while roleplaying as an AI. The first is useful when you need a quick break to go to the toilet, and the second is a good excuse because you made a mistake a real fictional AI couldnā€™t make.

      E: also funny that they worry about the shoggoth behind the friendly face and then get freaked out when the AIā€™s talk in normal science fiction fluff to each other, and it doesnā€™t become incoherently weird. (like the example above).

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      Iā€™ve sat and had beer with someone (whoā€™s worked in the space but not LLMs) who read the Bitter Lesson and got real into the idea of humans ā€œjust being universal function approximatorsā€ and had wholesale bought into the idea that we should throw everything we possibly can into this shit, no resource cost or requirement is too high or too uncertain, that it would definitely be the right thing to so

      so I can tell you without no uncertainty that there are definitely people who buy into it

      I poked the conversation gently, to see how far the conviction went. it was pretty comprehensively bought-in. was a somewhat surprising experience tbh

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          that was the response. and this is a person with exposure to (and their own undertakings in) creative works

          it was a pretty wild conversation tbh