Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid ā welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
So the news is now filled with stories about how AI will take over and the Ai companies might lose control of it gets smarter and at least one employee quit because it might kill us all. You know what I seem to be missing?
Actual employees doing sabotage. That is a bit odd right? They think Altman doesnt care about safety, but nobody has tried to wipe the backups. And we know they dont think that much about security.
And it isnt like sysadmins messed with systems in the past over lesser disputes.
Not even a āim turning whistleblower, here are all the internal chatlogs and documents of the employees and managementā.
Iām reminded of Yudkowskyās take that AI is totally going to kill us all and we should treat this seriously enough to bomb foreign datacenters if we think theyāre involved in AI development, but that doesnāt mean that you should try to bomb local datacenters involved in AI development work. Please donāt think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; youāre just an NPC after all.
Yud isnāt necessarily inconsistent here: he really really wants the robot god to become real so it can invent the blowjob machine and win utilitarianism, but he only trusts people heās met personally to do it, and certainly not those shifty celestials.
Or as the AI2027 blog put it:
God that blog is so hysterical. āPlease remain calm and Rational even though weāre telling you that AI companies are going to kill youā