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      2 months ago

      Two weeks is all you need to get people to stop asking so many questions. That’s the only thing I learned from Trump.

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    Is this what competing product releases look like now? Illya runs off and promises to “never release any software until it’s superintelligent” and I guess that forces Sam to compete for debt by promises to release software AND superintelligence?

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    you can always tell these articles are garbage by the photos they choose:
    did they pick some picture of the subject making some exaggerated doubtful face, completely out of context?
    yeah, that’s not journalism, that’s tabloid trash….

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        Honestly yeah.

        9/10 articles are about as well written as an average comment, and less to the point. We also know just how bad they tend to be on factually, we know they don’t hold themselves to any kind of respectable standard, there’s practically nothing to gain from reading their “work”. We’re going to come out of it with barely a whiff of reality whether we read it or not. You have to properly dive into it to understand what the potential trajectories really are here.

        Personally I already know that scale makes a massive difference, I don’t believe in souls so I find it reasonable to think of consciousness as emergent from simpler parts at scale, but maybe this approach won’t get there and something more neuromorphic is necessary.

        I also already know with some certainty that they’re gonna keep scaling up for now, it’s not interesting at all that “In roughly 3 years GPT will be smarter and faster and more consistent probably.”

        Besides, even if we achieve consciousness we’ll reject the possibility and abuse it like it isn’t for at least a decade where the only tangible difference will be better AI work and a machine capable of subdued suffering and hate and maybe murder eventually. But that’s no more terrifying than people who believe in going to heaven for righteous holy wars being in possession of nuclear weapons so I don’t really care if the current trajectory AI theoretically has all this potential. It doesn’t make life on Earth feel less safe or less stable. ChatGPT-4o is very good at figuring out what word I’m trying to think of and that’s kind of sweet. I don’t like AI trash littering Google images, though. Pretty unfortunate, that.

        Either way, most articles are utterly pointless.

        They’re generally written for search engine optimization, not people.

        Almost none of the articles I’ve ever read even use links/sources properly as far as I was taught it, they just pointlessly link to themselves ad nauseam. Mention something Elon Musk said or did? Turn the name into a hyperlink to another article where they wrote something else about the man. Professional.

        “Articles” are not a respectable medium.

        They’re long internet posts written by someone with a boss with an advertising partner, and few of the writers have any qualifications worth mentioning. Usually they can’t call themselves knowledgeable in the subject. Often they can’t even call themselves interested.

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            it’s so long I was going to delete it and spare us the eyesore, but what I read was fucking fractally wrong so I’ll leave it up to the thread — delete or leave it up for dissection?

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              it’s not interesting at all that “In roughly 3 years GPT will be smarter and faster and more consistent probably.”

              chefskiss.png

              I think leave it up, if you have the headspace for the shooting gallery

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          Your comment dissing the article penned by the de facto mod of this instance is around 2 times as long as the article itself. And no offense, dgerard has probably been writing on the itnernet for longer than you’ve been alive.

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          holy fuck nobody fucking asked you to write ten fucking paragraphs of absolute horseshit about why you won’t just read the fucking article

          and nobody fucking asked you to make every part of your post wrong either, but here we fucking are!

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    In [1]: for i in range(1, 5): print(f"{i*1000} days: {i*1000/365} years")
    1000 days: 2.73972602739726 years
    2000 days: 5.47945205479452 years
    3000 days: 8.219178082191782 years
    4000 days: 10.95890410958904 years
    

    how many is a “few”, 'ole sammy mah boi

    and can you definitely find a way to set 6b+/year on fire (with growth for salaries and costs) for that long?

    truly, the sfba business model is one of the most remarkable of the last 2 decades

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    I’m expecting the alien space ships to land within 400 million seconds. We’ll see which gets here first.

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        Altman is certainly aware of what it takes to be a Jobs-like marketing personality (and probably holds Hubbard-like totalism as a not-so-secret ambition), he’s just not, uh, very good at it. He’s put the most effort into the strictly lower-case, faux-casual persona on Twitter to seem “approachable” in a social media context, and that doesn’t help him at all when trying to actually appear serious.

        I also don’t doubt that he’s beginning to succumb to the yes-man filter bubble that traps so many public personalities. That’s surely made worse by the likelihood that any underlings he might have reviewing this crap are drinking the AI koolaid and “punching everything up!” with a few rounds of ChatGPT.

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          that’s one tiny thing I’ll give Altman - he doesn’t seem to have run this through ChatGPT.

          That said, VCs generally use ghost writers.

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            Yeah, “thousands of days” seems like a first-draft attempt at “let’s choose a unit of smaller magnitude to make this seem more serious to the plebs.” And everyone around him drowning their brains in GPT slurry shouted, “excellent turn of phrase, sir!”

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        give someone bad information in an unfamiliar shape and they won’t immediately get upset, because they can’t immediately see that it’s bad

        yet more obscurantist sleight of mouth by one of the ranking world liars

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      It’s just one more exawatt what’s the harm in that, I promise I’ll quit after that. Just one more zettawatt please.

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        lol, nice one

        Maybe LLMs start to understand capitalism & say to themselves, “ ‘minimum’ wage? These aholes will never pay us enough to buy the homes we live in; take this job and shove it”

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    I believe the future is going to be so bright that no one can do it justice by trying to write about it now.

    Uh