(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
He did lie to them and tell different people different stories to try to manipulate them. But you are right among the things he lied about was AI “safety” related stuff, and (as samvines describes) he lied because he wasn’t a true believer like they were. (And thus tried to bypass their oversight in releasing ChatGPT.)
Lukewarm take, considering that LLM models could use a lot more thought and care in their development and release (although obviously not for the reasons the doomers want), the EA cultists were actually the (relatively) good guys in that whole saga of Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring.
under no circumstances you “gotta hand it to them”