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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Damn nice sneer from Charlie Warzel in this one, taking a direct shot at Silicon Valley and its AGI rhetoric.

Archive link, to get past the paywall.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

Gonna take a shot in the dark and say the fixation's from viewing chess more as an IQ showcase than as a game.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

EDIT: have they considered offering a huge cash prize to anyone who proves them wrong

My mind's saying they aren't gonna give away the money no matter what, my heart wants to see transgirls bully these nerds mercilessly

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

Honestly, I think we need another winter. All this hype is drowning out any decent research, and so all we are getting are bogus tests and experiments that are irreproducible because they’re so expensive. It’s crazy how unscientific these ‘research’ organizations are. And OpenAI is being paid by Microsoft to basically jerk-off sam Altman. It’s plain shameful.

If an AI winter does happen, I expect it'll be particularly lengthy/severe. Unlike previous AI hype cycles, this particular cycle has come with some serious negative externalities (large-scale copyright infringement, climate change/water consumption, the flood of AI slop, disinformation, etc).

Said externalities have turned the public strongly against AI, to the point where refusing to use it has become a viable marketing strategy.

You want my suspicion, any further AI research will probably be viewed with immediate distrust, at least for a while.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

what the heck EA forum doesn’t have a block feature? That’s just… ew.

You don't need a block feature if you're as insufferable as the average EA /j

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 33 points 3 months ago

Do you really think "cult" is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as "cults" have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they're associated with the label "cult" or not.

Yes, this is real

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

Just say he's yapping, because that's all this dipshit's doing

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[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

Fucking beautiful.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

"Not Like Us" was less scathing than this. Fucking hell.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

This Is Financial Advice would've been a much better video to make that point with - that video was about a financial doomsday cult centered around a dying mall retailer, and doesn't start going into anything particularly heavy until near the end.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

The Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley isn't directly about TESCREAL, but its dissection of Silicon Valley's complete and utter misunderstanding of sci-fi/fantasy does still work wonders against Yudkowsky et al's views IMO.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago

I'd bet good money any judge reading this is gonna go "Yep, this kid does not want to change" and ramp up the sentence as a result.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago

Bold of a fucking Harry Potter fanfic writer to be giving dating advice

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