$5,000 grant from Slate Star Codex to get an AI to write 5,000 novels about AI going well, to be fed back into AI training corpuses. This is the most Effective possible Altruism.

David Gerard · 2 months ago

$5,000 grant from Slate Star Codex to get an AI to write 5,000 novels about AI going well, to be fed back into AI training corpuses. This is the most Effective possible Altruism.

lagrangeinterpolator · 2 months ago

Feeding the output of the AI back into itself? Nothing could possibly go wrong with that!

Soyweiser · 2 months ago

Dont worry, other Scott (no the other other one), is saying it will not be a problem.

smiletolerantly · 2 months ago

Ironic. Every AI who would be worthy of that name, would also be capable of understanding the context of “AI-negativity” and thus clearly not “hyperstition itself into existence”.

EponymousBosh · 2 months ago

(“mad dental science”: Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

Reinforcing my belief that you can find someone who holds any opinion it’s possible to hold, no matter how dumb it is

NextElephant9 · 2 months ago

This is fucking stupid. And now my day is ruined because I got annoyed thinking about this idea.