u/florinandrei

For your own sake, I hope you're a Russian bot.

Because if you're not, then that means a huge turd occupies the place in your skull where the brain normally is.

Give up quite a few things that we hold to be self evident.

So a little more humility on their side would be appreciated.

Meanwhile, some NPC feels free to criticize them on social media.

Kinda both, really.

But yeah, both matter.

I mean, nonsensical usage of words refutes itself.

But I'm not Wittgenstein, so what do I know.

In related news, Slovakia has a clown as prime minister.

Yeah.

The business optimizers have taken over this realm, too. All decisions are now geared towards improving the bottom line.

I lived in cultures where almost every adult was smoking. People were not bleeding to death in the streets. If all you know is numbers on a spreadsheet, and no context beyond that, it can be hard to reconstruct a coherent image of life.

That being said, smoking is bad in every way, and if you smoke you should quit.

They’re heading toward an IPO, so they have a strong incentive

The IPO meme is the most retarded echo chamber artifact on social media recently.

People with no understanding whatsoever keep repeating it, for no reason other than making themselves feel "relevant" and "knowledgeable".

And those who know even less hear it, and go "yeah, that sounds plausible".

Social media is a cesspool.

Boromir: Dario Amodei

Denethor II: Sam Altman

Nailed it. Wow. That's perfect.

Frodo: Jacob Coxon

Well, he might be Frodo still at Bag End right now, just going to parties with Merry and Pippin. We have yet to see if he ever leaves town.

Bilbo: Geofrey Hinton

Nice.

Gandalf: Eliezor Yudkowski

A very activist Gandalf, yeah, probably, at least in the past. I kind of hate that you're right, I really do. I hope you do, too.

Ring wraiths: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is another Boromir. Read his recent biography.

But yeah, the others are ringwraiths. Larry Page has said he doesn't care if humanity disappears, as long as intelligence continues on. That's batshit insane, that's Witch King stuff.

Grima Wormtongue: Mark Andreesen

Haha, nailed it.

Saruman: Elon Musk

I don't think he has an equivalent. He's firmly on Team Humanity, he stopped speaking with Larry Page after that guy made his comments. He's a genius with technology, but he's a moron at people stuff. So his image is quite a bit worse than reality. Saruman the White might be close, but then that might be a Saruman who redeems himself, who does not become of Many Colors. Time will tell.

Sam Altman would be a very good candidate for Saruman of Many Colors, except Saruman was very highly technical, which Altman is not.

Sauron: Artificial Superintelligence

Yeah.

I would point out what useless, self-defeating garbage you're spewing, but I doubt you would comprehend.

Read the interview in full at the link above.

I would, if it weren't behind a paywall.

The sub guidelines are hilarious, too. Users are required to read the full article before commenting. ROTFL

Does anyone care about anything anymore, or are we all slop generators now?

they sucks

Me spik gud one day.

Seeing as how Russia is effectively at war with Europe, I would say: take those Russian memories and shove them up your ass.

It's war, I could not care less about your "memories".

That's the problem, yes.

What nimrod, bone-headed, self-indulgent, tasteless, brainless motherfucker thought it would be OK to change the default attribution of the harness to include URLs to your sessions in contributions?

Whoever controls the master prompt in your team's Anthropic account.

Probably your boss.

Odysseus helps himself to food once, after a perilous journey across the sea. It's a need. He needs this temporary boost, and then he will be on his way, thank you very much.

The suitors had leeched resources for many years, abusing the house servants, and with the ultimate goal of replacing Odysseus himself as the head of the household. They are motivated by greed.

Very, very different scenarios.

it assumes there is no necessary connection between a being’s physical stuff and their being consciousness

His magnum opus is about this topic (among other things), and that's not the argument he makes there.

Genghis Khan would approve.

With great power comes great business opportunity.

AI

Can you buy a laser on eBay and do DIY Lasik surgery?

You will not survive for days in a steam sauna.

...and stay there!

AI does not have a body. You do. Try selling it.