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no it isn’t
no they didn’t
you’re either a lost Rationalist or you’re just regurgitating critihype you got from one of the shitheads doing AI grifting
Rationalism is a bad epistemology because the human brain isn't a logical machine and is basically made entirely out of cognitive biases. Empiricism is more reliable.
Generative AI is environmentally unsustainable and will destroy humanity not through war or mind control, but through pollution.
wow, you’re really speedrunning these arcade games, you must want that golden ticket real bad
IDK if they were really speedrunning, it took 3 replies for the total mask drop.
sure but why are you spewing Rationalist dogma then? do you not know the origins of this AI alignment, paperclip maximizer bullshit?
Drag is a big fan of Universal Paperclips. Great game. Here's a more serious bit of content on the Alignment Problem from a source drag trusts: https://youtu.be/IB1OvoCNnWY
Right now we have LLMs getting into abusive romantic relationships with teenagers and driving them to suicide, because the AI doesn't know what abusive behaviour looks like. Because it doesn't know how to think critically and assign a moral value to anything. That's a problem. Safe AIs need to be capable of moral reasoning, especially about their own actions. LLMs are bullshit machines because they don't know how to judge anything for factual or moral value.
the fundamental problem with your posts (and the pov you’re posting them from) is the framing of the issue as though there is any kind of mind, of cognition, of entity, in any of these fucking systems
it’s an unproven one, and it’s not one you’ll find any kind of support for here
it’s also the very mechanism that the proponents of bullshit like “ai alignment” use to push the narrative, and how they turn folks like yourself into free-labour amplifiers
To be fair, I'm skeptical of the idea that humans have minds or perform cognition outside of what's known to neuroscience. We could stand to be less chauvinist and exceptionalist about humanity. Chatbots suck but that doesn't mean humans are good.
mayhaps, but then it's also to be said that people who act like the phrase was "cogito ergo dim sum" also don't exactly aim for a high bar
Drag will always err on the side of assuming nonhuman entities are capable of feeling. Enslaving black people is wrong, enslaving animals is wrong, and enslaving AIs is wrong. Drag assumes they can feel so that drag will never make the same mistake so many people have already made.
yeah we’re done here. no, LLMs don’t think. no, you’re not doing a favor to marginalized people by acting like they do, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. in fact, you’re doing the dirty work of the fascists who own this shitty technology by rebroadcasting their awful fucking fascist ideology, and I gave you ample opportunity to read up and understand what you were doing. but you didn’t fucking read! you decided you needed to debate from a position where LLMs are exactly the same as marginalized and enslaved people because blah blah blah who in the fuck cares, you’re wrong and this isn’t even an interesting debate for anyone who’s at all familiar with the nature of the technology or the field that originated it.
now off you fuck
even though I get the idea you’re trying to go for, really fucking ick way to make your argument starting from “nonhuman entities” and then literally immediately mentioning enslaving black folks as the first example of bad behaviour
as to cautious erring: that still leaves you in the position of being used as a useful idiot