Turns out the only cause of inequality in the world is that there’s just too much progress. Once the Best GPU has finally been designed, it’ll just keep rolling off the production line, and those charitable manufacturers will gladly distribute them at bargain prices to all the impoverished masses. Who all have a reliable source of energy to devote to churning out slop.

I suppose my error here is taking him at his word that he could support a ‘pause’, when such a statement could very well just be a concession to appear moderate and reasonable.

The central myth of AI is that it functions.

I don’t even get where Marcus is coming from. He worries that this is a total ban on definitely very useful research, and protests:

I could support the pause; I cannot support a permanent ban on research that might benefit humanity. We may need a temporary pause, maybe even one that lasts for a number of years, until such time as we have much better ideas about regulation and alignment.

So just repeal or amend the total ban once those better ideas are available?

Also that’s a very big MIGHT benefit humanity

I suppose I should be grateful that I can’t decipher it.

‘we want to run our data centers using humanoid [robots]’ because you can run them at higher temperatures

It’s true: these massive climate-controlled facilities are kept so cold, entirely for the benefit of the two people that are walking around at any time.

See also: electric fields and currents are so complicated, so let’s talk about fluid dynamics

Of course finance bros would ‘go meta’ on charitable donations. Of course they would.

I had a nifty idea. So markets are like, totally cool, connecting things to other things and it’s all totally optimal. So what if we set up some kind of ‘altruism market’? Instead of a bloated inefficient EA organisation centrally planning where funds should be allocated and deciding which causes are the most effective, we could open it up so that the savviest donors can select the best destination for their funds directly, and skip all the overhead. We could run that for a while and then, if it turns out that donkey sanctuaries are able to attract enough donations to continue operating in the Market of Altruism, then we can only rationally conclude that a donkey sanctuary is the most Effective Altruism.

the %s are bullshit.

My first thought was something to do with printf. <_<

Inside the Agent-4 collective, a year passes every week.

Good luck proving this prediction true or false given that computer algorithms do not have a concept of time separate from the real one lol.

Inside my toy orbital gravity simulation, a year passes every ten seconds. Please update your singularity timelines accordingly.

There are many pinheads associated with AGI

AGENTS.md serves an invaluable purpose in prominently tagging slopware. A mark the promptfondlers can’t wait to bolt on personally!

If its content does nothing, does that mean that ‘poisoned’ contents are also nearly ineffective? Then it can be an even more straightforward slop signal.

This argument hinges on the idea that the most important part of a business is its ‘data’, far more important than anything like its assets or its workers or its long-standing client relationships, which is… dubious.

If you presuppose that all the value of an enterprise is confined entirely to the part that’s computable, then you’ll be shocked to discover that a computer can do all of it. But a computer is not doing all of it, and if a real existing business today cannot replace itself with a computer, why would some vastly overcapitalised slop foundry be able to?

I registered just so I could make this very important joke. Hi!

What if the insurance bot were actually biased? Wouldn’t you feel silly then? Surely it wouldn’t be the fault of the insurer using biased software to deny claims.

Pew asked:

Overall, would you say the increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in daily life makes you feel …

52% of all adults were more concerned than excited — a new high. 37% were more excited than concerned.

What are the stats on disgusted, or weary, or guillotiney?

That is, an Ezra Klein bottle