After an appropriate period of remorseful self-exclusion from the public eye, he will begin doing an interminable series of TED Talks/closed-door Davos appearances/privte business school lectures where he tells everyone we didn’t push AI development far enough, AGI really was right around the corner
they’d just start buying overpriced leather jackets to compensate. there’s a worked example in the press right now
I imagined he would step down and let someone else handle the fallout once it was apparent the bubble was cooked; I just never imagined it would be this stupid
Post screenshot of forum from within new OS, as is traditional
It will be very interesting to see who/which firms among the VC class attempt to buy off the new Democrats, and who sticks to A16Z’s “build! techno-optimism!” bit.
What Yudkowsky doesn’t get that Hubbard certainly did is that this sort of belligerent boundary-setting against wrongthinkers and skeptics needs to be a consistent practice, not an occasional outburst.
I will assert again that ~nobody who claims that prompting is a skilled practice also offers a guide to how to develop that skillset. And it would be effectively the same claim as having cracked the use of English as a computer programming language, so it should be pretty easy to produce that guide, right? Anthropic should have this shit front and center! First clickable link on their front page!
uwu pls don’t take away my sense of technological progress - it is the only thing that gives meaning to my life and culture
A lot of them fail to grasp how rightwing they (rationalists) actually are.
When I first encountered people trying to expand upon the Mark Fisher interpretation of hauntology, a few years ago, I thought they were perhaps overreaching. But after a few more years of observation, now I no longer think so. The rationalist project isn’t really about predicting the future, and perhaps never really has been. Its conservative essence is to enshrine and protect a certain, mainly pop-cultural, framework about what the future should look like, and events are now passing that framework by. It only gets stranger from here.
I have more hope for putting serious pressure on my middle-of-the-road Dem rep. The district here only really turned Dem around 20 years ago thanks to the influx of Bay Area bedroom-community commuters, but there are still plenty of families around who immigrated as ag workers. So he already felt a degree of pressure, but now I feel like urging him to get on board with properly punishing the very worst Trump excesses might (might!) not be an empty gesture anymore.
I don’t understand why anyone would think this would ever be possible for LLMs.
Yes, as I understand it, inference requires strictly less computational capacity than training; it’s just that a training setup can be turned around and run inference sessions massively in parallel. Just because you can run inference doesn’t mean you can accomplish a training run. Unless there’s some rationalist super-computer-science I’ve been missing this whole time…
damn, I thought my sneers were on point, but clearly I must up my vip game. seems like boots optimized for rapid heel-turn vipping may be the meta
Kurzweil actually liked the warp 10 lizard sex episode – pass it on
Artemis III is going to be so embarrassing, isn’t it. Next summer they’re supposed to link up with a lunar lander-configuration Starship (and also Bezos’ company’s slightly more reasonable lander design) in orbit as a proof-of-concept.
Not that Altman’s company is ahead in the AI coding race, but everyone’s PCs will still need increasing amounts of DRAM to be able to run the next generation of slop-coded JavaScript apps.
Yeah, I’ve read a few stories in the past year or two that updated suspiciously rapidly and weren’t terribly well written. But overall the culture there is against AI generation.
Tesla Semi went up in flames on I-880 in the Bay Area: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/tesla-semi-fire-i880-hayward-traffic/4165797/
Between this and the carload of freshly manufactured Teslas that burned to the ground on the Grapevine on I-5 last year, that seems like only one (1) freeway-closing big-rig related explosion per year. That’s not so bad, right?
Also - is the coivd lab leak conspiracy nonsense STILL a shibboleth among this bunch? Just because it underscores their ideas about Researchers Have To Be Careful?
I feel like it plays to their aesthetic, which is partly built on their insecurities. Oh, humans aren’t smart enough to handle all this advanced research (read: very few of these people were committed enough to get bio or chem degrees, let alone follow through with research careers), but the superintelligent AI surely will be able to! If we submit to the AI god now, it will make up for the gaping voids of meaning and skill inside ourselves.
Too bad our old friend Kirk Johnson couldn’t make it in
I think there’s an inbuilt unexamined assumption that they are automatically part of a cosmopolitan elite, thanks to their paths through early life, and they are now transcending beyond that. Standing on the shoulders of David Brooks, perhaps