The way LLM boosters talk about GPTs reminds me of how one of my kids tried to convince himself that his stuffies are really alive.
The same desire to believe in adults is so unsettling to me. They’re desperately trying to fill a hole in their life where family, friends, culture, or religion should be. My first instinct would be compassion if it weren’t for all of the economic dislocation and fascism.
I like to think that there exists a small god whose portfolio consists of punishing people who use the word “narrative” as a bludgeon. He strongly resembles late 2000’s-era Terry Pratchett and is a dab hand with a lighting bolt.
This SCP Wiki entry riffs on our favorite fan fiction extruder cum doomsayer. It is the deepest, weirdest cut, it relies on having some familiarity with SCP Wiki lore, and it is also very NSFW.
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18+ Honor Levy is the latest from Dimes Square. Truly breathtaking text production.
holy shit, it’s Ready Player One for race scientists...
18+ Techdirt: Effective Altruism’s Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty To AI Doomerism (www.techdirt.com)
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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
The article doesn’t mention SSC directly, but I think it’s pretty obvious where this guy is getting his ideas
In response to Google (www.wheresyoured.at)
Google responded to Ed, Ed responds....
I can only say: spot on, but not at all in the way you were thinking (www.lesswrong.com)
Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Nick Bostrom irked that Oxford University expected his institute to produce work that was of a standard appropriate to its position in their philosophy department (awful.systems)
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