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‘Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed’

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtE4YzbPt1U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260526-pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it - podcast

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For some reason LW is obsessed by the idea that this encyclical (specifically its Italian version) was written with the help of an LLM.

[–] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

LessWrong, a group blog supposedly devoted to the science of living rationally, but in practice ground zero for some truly culty behavior. The Zizians arose from that community, for example.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

LessWrong, an online community that started out as a place to discuss Yudkowski's writings, who among other things is the If You Build It Everyone Dies guy.

LessWrong also directly gave us Effective Altruism and the Zizians.