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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024
  • As someone who's never even considered interacting with any part of this whole system, this is really funny honestly. It's like a matryoshka of shady business practices.

  • my friend made a find at the bookstore
  • love how they put photos of the book on the back of the book

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • For anyone who rightfully can't be arsed to click that link, the expert is "Robert Miles AI Safety", who I assume is an expert (a youtuber) in the madeup field of "AI safety".

    Not to be confused with the late and great dream trance producer Robert Miles whom we all love dearly.

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • what if the AI sprouts wings and flies into the sky where we can't reach it?

  • Foreign Policy: Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah Aren’t So Different
  • lol same, I thought oh wow they're really good on bitcoin, and then i saw the author's name and went oh

    good job!!

  • Rationalism meets iNaturalist: ficus all
  • Hi Deborah what's up wait so what the fuck, am I getting this right: this person found a new ficus, potentially, and is in contact with a ficus expert who'll get back to them in a few weeks. The person can't accept this insignificant delay because???? (is there a lot of pressing demand for advances in ficus taxonomy?) so they write this bizarre screed about ... about huh ... how the invisible hand of the market should drive ficus research? You know, like bees, or Batman? For some reason? Because having to wait a few weeks is the same as being left to drown?

    Someone's on a lot of adderall.

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • Absolutely, every single one of these tools has got less interesting as they refine it so it can only output the platonic ideal of kitsch.

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • I kinda want to keep my job and ideally get a good bonus.

    fuck you

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • That ChatGPT can be more useful than a web search is really more indicative of how bad the web has got, and can only get worse as fake text invades it. It's not actually better than a functional search engine and a functional web, but the companies making these things have no interest in the web being usable. Pretty depressing.

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • To be honest, as someone who's very interested in computer generated text and poetry and the like, I find generic LLMs far less interesting than more traditional markov chains because they're too good at reproducing clichés at the exclusion of anything surprising or whimsical. So I don't think they're very good for the unfactual either. Probably a homegrown neural network would have better results.

  • Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once
  • you know you're on a fascist blog when you see so many AI illustrations

  • Kevin Roose is gonna write "A Latecomer's Guide To AI" and the bubble will burst hard two months later
  • I got stuck on the same sentence. What the hell was that?

    I'm going to assume he thinks "person" and "thing" are synonyms.

  • OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment | TechCrunch
  • Yeah, it's always a combination of factors and I have no doubt the stress didn't help, but the idea that OpenAI would put a hit on some guy no one's heard of over his opinions on copyright infringement is laughable. Let's not do that.

  • what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)
  • my personal theory is he refused makeup because it's an unnatural affectation that could have compromised his bioengineered skincare immortality routine

  • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat
  • carbon capture you can eat

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • Humans can't help but return to questions the presocratics already struggled with. Makes me happy.

  • In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselves
  • One particular safety concern is that venture capitalists might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether venture capitalists have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the capitalist to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier financiers on a suite of six agentic evaluations where capitalists are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.