More big “we had to fund, enable, and sane wash fascism b.c. the leftist wanted trans people to be alive” energy from the EA crowd. We really overplayed our hand with the extremist positions of Kamala fuckin Harris fellas, they had no choice but to vote for the nazis.
(repost since from that awkward time on Sunday before the new weekly thread)
More big "we had to fund, enable, and sane wash fascism b.c. the leftist wanted trans people to be alive" energy from the EA crowd.
I did read one of Carlo's pop sci books back in the day, was a nice read. Iirc he's like one of the dudes all in on loop quantum gravity. Bet you'd know more about this than I do 😅
Thanks for sharing this. Sent it to my mother who has spent a large part of her career working with children who require special care like this, she really enjoyed it. Her take:
"Thanks for this. It is what I have done for 12 years. I wonder why they didn't use the devices that are already out there that do these things and can be customized. It is very cool tho" <- (my mommy)
Also, man why do I click on these links and read the LWers comments. It's always insufferable people being like, "woe is us, to be cursed with the forbidden knowledge of AI doom, we are all such deep thinkers, the lay person simply could not understand the danger of ai" like bruv it aint that deep, i think i can summarize it as follows:
hits blunt "bruv, imagine if you were a porkrind, you wouldn't be able to tell why a person is eating a hotdog, ai will be like we are to a porkchop, and to get more hotdogs humans will find a way to turn the sun into a meat casing, this is the principle of intestinal convergence"
Literally saw another comment where one of them accused the other of being a "super intelligence denier" (i.e., heretic) for suggesting maybe we should wait till the robot swarms coming over the hills before we declare its game over.
:'( sad one. feel bad for the bebe, being raised by insane people.
"Im 99% sure I will die in the next year because of super duper intelligence, but in a world where that doesnt happen i plan to live 1000 years" surely is a forecast. Surprised they don't break their own necks on the whiplash from this take.
Not sure! What is CFAR?
:( looked in my old CS dept's discord, recruitment posts for the "Existential Risk Laboratory" running an intro fellowship for AI Safety.
Looks inside at materials, fkn Bostrom and Kelsey Piper and whole slew of BS about alignment faking. Ofc the founder is an effective altruist getting a graduate degree in public policy.
I heard new Gemini got the first question, so thats SOTA now*
*allegedly it came out the same day as the math olympiad so it twas fair, but who the fuck knows
There's so much to hate with this, but for some reason what really irks me is the "overplayed their hand" b.c. she was a poker player so she has to view all human interaction through the lens of gAmE tHeOrY instead of, you know, believing people should have human rights.
Like you just know in a parallel universe she's yapping about how "the West has fallen b.c. leftist pushed their pawns too far" or "I have to vote for elon for president b.c. the left's clerics exhausted all their healing mana"