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a cautionary tale to which I hope my children take heed. I sometimes make drawings, music & theatre. he/him
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The wait in the drive thru shouldn't be so long that the shame sets in BEFORE you eat the food. #longjohnsilvers #dontjudgeme #fb
at most work meetings, I operate on the level of a dog. Mostly I'm chill and do my own thing, and half-listen for my name, and if someone says it, I perk up.
New kitty just dropped
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
look... we've all see that video. You have to wonder if Mattel made any adjustments to Ken's pelvic region, for accuracy.
the Prince of Marqueness retweeted
There’s coming a time when people will say, “You can’t expect kids to learn how to read. There’s no way millions of children used to do it. It never happened.” And at that point it will be up to the rest of us to remember, and to build a new culture from the ashes of the old.
might want to take what this guy says with a grain of salt. His brain seems to be showing some signs of rot.
Yeah, this is a really important question.
I’ve been associating with rationalists for almost a decade. Their ideas were compelling and you can’t deny their foresight. The founders of every superintelligence effort are all bound up in the rationality sphere. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman used to frequent the MIRI offices.
The way I relate to rationalists is it’s like the bizarre hypertrophied physiques on specialized athletes. In my opinion they have weirdly specialized minds that make them uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience. These “specialized minds” also can make them off-putting to many people.
I dont know if I’d consider myself a rationalist. I am intuitively opposed to polyamory, veganism, and consequentialist intuitions. But I certainly trust them to be correct about factual questions.
this seems more plausible
An alternative hypothesis:
- model performance is plateauing
- compute is getting much more expensive
- AI data centers are massively unpopular
- slowing down AI development is a way to explain slowing progress, reduce spending, and try to regain some goodwill.
- This is an effort to save the IPO not humanity.
the Prince of Marqueness retweeted
Al might destroy the world before the end of this decade, but it’s giving lazy, mediocre, untalented people the chance to make art so I’d say it’s worth it.
jeezus fukking kreist.
are we just going to take whatever these liars (Altman, Amodei, Musk, Huang) say at face value? every single one of them have been lying about everything for the lst several years.
are you worried about AI? let's just hang these motherfuckers and move on
I've served in two White Houses and in Congressional leadership, and I can tell you when the last time a CEO or an industry at large asked to be regulated: never. That's what makes Dario's letter so striking — it's an admission that we're driving down a dark, winding road on wet pavement with the headlights off. And where's President Trump? Looks like he nodded off again. It’s time to turn the lights on, put both hands on the wheel, and regain control before it’s too late.
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Industries and CEOs have often asked to be regulated. Examples include 19th century railroads, Allstate in 2009, hedge funds and tech companies. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/305871… fee.org/articles/we-wa… nationalreview.com/corner/be-wary…
okay, dude, but you made some pretty boring fucking movies
Zack Snyder says he didn’t want to make comic book movies in the way that Marvel does.
“[Marvel is] like an amusement park ride, right? The ups, the drops, the kind of cruising part, and then another drop. At the end, you’re like, ‘Wow, that was crazy, that was awesome.’ I had no interest in that... I’d rather just kind of talk about the mythology of them. And maybe that’s not as fun.”
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
