“Cure cancer or whatever”
Fuck all the way off, Altman. You oversell a text generator. You’re not getting a Nobel prize for that.
Kissinger got a Nobel Peace Prize for napalming infants. I wouldn’t put it past them to give Altman one for using more electricity than most countries on glorified autocomplete.
To be fair, mRNA vaccines are largely possible due to AI, and not just any AI, but similar approaches that LLMs use. They took NLP (natural language processing) concepts, which were the precursor to today’s LLMs, to generate a bunch of possibilities. That’s how we were able to get COVID-19 vaccines so quickly, and we’re likely to use that for a ton of other diseases going forward.
It’s not that far-fetched that similar techniques could be used to cure cancer.
> Be Sam Altman
> Start “OpenAI”
>dont’t contribute to research, try to turn OpenAI into a corporation to funnel billions into “better LLMs” (the Chinese already made a better model with a fraction of OpenAI’s budget)
I’m not fond of Elon but I get the Altman hate.
you phrase that as if Elon isn’t a Nazi who comes from colonial money
Fair. My statement with historical context would be along the lines of “I’m not fond of Goebbels but I get the Speer hate”.
Unsolicited formatting help
If you want to see the arrows and not format as a quote throw some backslashes in front of the
lessgreater than signs.\> Typing this
> Gets this
Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the gaps between the quote lines then put
lessgreater than signs on the empty lines.> Typing
>
> thisGets
this
Edit: I had to fix some wonky formatting, lol
Unsolicited naming advice
Less Than points to the left
<(shape of an L), while Greater Than points to the right(I got nothing other than it’s not an L).I believe it’s because we read from left to right, so the prominent number is on the left (I.e.,
8 is less than 10=8 < 10).Anyways, great advice! Carry on!
😊
You are right! The funny thing is I was trying to think of it that way and got it backwards anyway. Not enough mental RAM left after work for that kind of thing, apparently.
You can put a double space at the end of the line to have a new line with no gap
>Never
>Gonna
>Give You
>UpOh nice, I’ve been using these \ things, we’ll see if it’s even rendered here
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Shoot, there’s another way that involves turning the entire comment into plaintext code but I can’t remember the method.
```Edit: I membered> thank you
> for your service
That cunt actually tried to greentext on twitter
He forgot he could ask his ai
fun fact! on Voyager (Lemmy for mobile app) you can’t read the title because it’s a quote due to a bug.
for those who can’t read it, the title is:>meme arrows
I also submitted a bug report and a fix is on the way :)
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/1918lolwut why does markdown work in post titles
Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.
If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.
Can you explain the background for this please?
Someone rewrote the first Harry Potter book (I’m not kidding) to be about Harry using magic to do essentially eugenics, Sam took it seriously.
From that fanfic, the Rationalist / Effective Altruism people believe that as more people exist in the future than in the present, making an AI singularity that would behave as a God is more important than, e.g. curing cancer, or providing clean drinking water.
All correct.
The only other things to add is that “Effective Altruism m” started as asking the question “what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?” and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from “mosquito nets and access to drinking water” to that belief outlined in the previous comment.
The other thing is “timeless-decisions” which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a “butterfly effect” on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.
It’s basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.
Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.
Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump’s inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.
Chat is this real? (I won’t download X you can’t make me)
I’m not checking either, but it’s funny
reads the text
Looks at the avatar
Yup, definitely a studio ghibli-style twink. Checks out.
Where green?
In his bank account
