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what in the fuck

and I presume the answers default to yes

Right on buddy, I too want to live in a future where my diamonds are judged by their brilliance and my passion as a magnate, not by the child labor I employ to produce them.

I recognise that the sloperator is pretty damn insecure about their AI usage. [YES][NO]

The comments have some real gems too.

Fair. I've reweighted in DALYs. The net goes up, because my customers' remaining DALYs are low. Thanks for the push.

This is great :D https://morewrong.lol/?post=im-huffing-computer-duster-because-ai-will-reverse-my-brain-damage

@antifuchs @BlueMonday1984 The comments are amazing

@antifuchs @BlueMonday1984 lol, good parody of that cult.

@antifuchs @BlueMonday1984 Firefox throws me TLS errors over that link.

I'm some random shitposter from TERF Island and I can definitely write better than Aella

I thought GPT 2 had already hit the point of "Writing better than Aella"

As if insufficient volume of text output was ever a problem among lesswrongers

Pray tell, how is the chatbot going to know what you want to say if you won’t write it out? This feels a little too obvious.

as soon as AI is good enough to discharge feces out of my butt as good as I would if I had enough fiber in my diet, I intend to use AI to do so. I know how I want to poop, and I could poop so much more if I didn't need to manual labor little clumps out one by one

Aella was homeschooled by fundies. I don't think anyone ever sat her down and explained that first and foremost you write to figure out what you think about something. She must know the OnlyFans model of a celebrity and dozens of underlings in a call center answering 'her' texts in 'her' voice and selling her smut.

Cognitive surrender illustrated.

I haven't really kept up, but it looks like Character's business model was still focused on NSFW content. If so, then this is also a disaster for the industry at large, since NSFW content is one of the few genuine money-printers for chatbot and image-generation services; people really do want thousands of iterations of the same fantasy, slightly changed in order to stay engaging, and Character was highly recommended as a source of affordable slop. (Examples of unaffordability include the rampant free-tier abuse on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok; I'm assuming that customers are willing to open their wallets at least a little. In general, the porn industry turns a profit, so I do think that people will pay for porn.)

My prior estimate (previously, on Awful and on Lobsters) was that token generation was subsidized to the tune of an effective 80-90% discount; this looks to be more in the 90-95% range. For contrast, consider chatbot-booster Willison's belief, in reply above, that Chinese labs will magically produce a five-fold improvement in token production; this still would be between two to four times slower than needed to turn a profit for Character.

How you look at "my company pays $14 for every $ from the user" and not like, idk, stop, seek help, change your job, name, and address, is completely beyond me.

@lagrangeinterpolator :thisisfine: :trashfire: @BlueMonday1984

For copyright purposes, all patches must be substantially human-written. However, it seems that most patches are now prepared with chatbot assistance, so that effectively means that people are required to be psychotic centaurs in order to keep up with review demand. There's an LWN secret link from the documentation lieutenant which summarizes the linked LKML thread. My former lieutenant, in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem, is apparently having a bad time:

Airlie asked his sub-maintainers; most of them identified him as the biggest pain point. More seriously, it was that the DRM subsystem is still seeing too many regressions. There is a push within the subsystem to move development to GitLab in order to use its CI features; he is not standing in the way because he wants to see how it turns out.

This is a more systemic problem than one might expect, because DRM (and DRI, Direct Rendering Infrastructure) are partially shared between Linux and the BSDs. This subsystem has creaked along under the weight of corporate expectations for decades, mostly fueled by a kind of quiet sponsorship of young university folks from GPU vendors along with outsourced drivers produced behind corporate privacy and thrown over the wall. Every vendor, even our eternal nemesis nVidia, has made repeated concessions in order to try to figure out the maintainer burden, but it seems that we are still dependent on Airlie's stoutness and willingness to get shouted at by Torvalds.

I haven’t tried it out in the wild, but I feel that Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse appropriately addresses a lot of noteworthy aspects, even though the title gives so much prominence to ‘sex’.

What type of documentation are you looking for? The big picture is easily googleable and wikipediable: EY got a few of the super-rich excited enough about doomer drama to bankroll the founding of OpenAI, whose governing body was mostly EAs (until the Altman-Nadella counter-coup) while Anthropic were the people who bailed because they though OAI weren't serious enough about alignment, and suddenly getting dicked in a rationalist ~~compound~~ group house has immense career implications in the burgeoning AI sector.

Also terms like AGI, ASI, AI alignment, existential risk et al started out as lesswrong shibboleths, and so-called alignment research is almost completely a rationalist circlejerk.

Pinning the EA/rats down as a cult is where it gets murkier because it's mostly them telling on themselves in social media and blog post implications, like how they foster a culture of zero personal boundaries, ingroup overdependence and rigid hierarchies stratified around claimed IQ and proximity to the Great Work of not messing up the robot god incantation that ends the world.

You could do worse than the Behind the Bastards episode on the Zizians, mostly because unlike Leverage or MAPLE who kind of did their own thing but with rationalist funding and human capital, the Zizians can be fairly described as what happens if you actually take the more esoteric aspects of rationalism seriously.

There is always RationalWiki but its not really equipped to deal with the polycule and abuse of sexual power stuff (or all the giant institutiions taking Internet cranks seriously). https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

AI safety is mostly a sex cult

the guy who posted this is also a singularity fanatic, but this is a good enough summary