Why not 18 ramdom cowboys though.

“You’re going to lick boot in 20 years anyway, why not get used to the taste now?”

Abundance just be repackaged free-market libertarian shit. The liberals that are pushing it are participating in the storied liberal tradition of courting reactionaries and fascists, thinking they are immune to the effects of intero-abyssal staring.

not debate club

source? (jk jk jk)

The comments are fun. Here’s the pinned comment, authored by the video’s author:

I’m not the best at thinking on the fly, so here are two key points I tried to make that got a little lost in the discussion:
1. I think our entire disagreement rests on Eliezer seeing increasingly refined AI conclusively making the jump to actual intelligence, whereas I do not see that. I only see software that mimics many observable characteristics of intelligence and gets better at it the more it’s refined.
2. My main point of the stuff about real v. fake + biological v. machine evolution was only to say that just because a process shares some characteristics with another one, other emergent properties aren’t necessarily shared also. In many cases, they aren’t. This strikes me as the case for human intelligence v. machine learning.

MY CONCLUSION
By the end, I honestly couldn’t tell if he was making a faith-based argument that increasingly refined AI will lead to true intelligence, despite being unsubstantiated OR if he did substantiate it and I was just too dumb to connect the dots. Maybe some of you can figure it out!

Here’s my favourite:

“Ooh Ross making an interview!”
5 minutes in
“Ooh Ross is making an interview Neil Breen of AI”.

“It’s really hard to think about alignment. Maybe we need to redesign thinking” type shit

Kony 2012 but make it robots

That’s like watching CPU vs CPU in a fighting or sports game. It’s pointless.

Saltybet catching strays. But that’s okay. That’s how saltybet rolls

Iyo? Io? Ive? Nah, fuck all those guys. Give me Ivo, give me Amazo.

Ah, right. That. Reminds me of that old adage about monsters and abysses. “Fighting monsters and abyss staring is good and cool, actually. France is bacon.” Something like that, don’t fact check me.

My AllTrails told me bears keep eating his promptfondlers so I asked how many promptfondlers he has and he said he just goes to AllTrails and gets a new promptfondler afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding promptfondlers to bears and then his parks service started crying.

titotal??? I heard they were dead! (jk. why did they stop hanging here, I forget…)

the second scott

this is low hanging fruit but: yeah absolutely rancid takes on the middle east from scootson. who would have thought he would produce such nuance-free, fascist opinions about geopolitics?

s/o to one of the comments basically saying that Scott is the Simone de Beauvoir of rationalism

It’s probably been discussed a shit-ton already, but boy does this guy not get why he’s a chud. Consider these two quotes, heavily edited for brevity:

I’m […] a liberal Zionist, […] etc. ([an identity] well-enough represented at LessOnline […]).

and:

The closest to right-wing politics that I witnessed at LessOnline was [moderate politics].

Of course, one shouldn’t expect s11n.blog to understand the fascist, let alone right-wing, nature of liberalism or Zionism. That is simply how fascists are.

Doing some reading about the SAG-AFTRA video game voice acting strike. Anyone have details about “Ethovox”, the AI company that SAG has apparently partnered with?

cool story, bro

lol the corollary of this is that LLMs are incapable of producing meaningful output, you insufferable turd

Given that the LLMs typically have a system prompt that specifies a particular tone for the output, I think pretentious is an absolutely valid and accurate word to use.