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7 experts · 83 posts · 9d ago
Colin Mary Branscombe Doll Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 growth.wtf
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“"How neural networks reason with latent concepts" is entirely out of her wheelhouse. (If you care about her main subfield of expertise, it was about the risks of overly applying grammar rules and w…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: LLMs are not databases. They do not contain their training data.
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Base rate fallacy.
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8 experts · 59 posts · 20d ago
Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) VE, cybersocial occult investigator tachikoma Doll Jed Brown apenwarr.ca
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“So there's a sort of survivorship bias. There are still lots of "jobs", but they go to the people who are still alive & in the job market after the last cohort gets gutted. The artists whose work i…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1
apenwarr.ca: So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): So far no labour saving device in the history of humanity has resulted in a long-term reduction in employment.
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10 experts · 32 posts · 13d ago
Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield SE Gyges David Marx jake John David Pressman tweety fish Mary Branscombe
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“and like insofar as that's a worry the solutions offered (a human understands the mechanism) are not solutions that are available for existing drugs, so the takeaway I think is that clinical trials…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: i hate this
SE Gyges: it tells me that that fucking guy who stood up and said this shit at Neurips managed to set this as an acceptable, within-overton-window way of being pissed off about ai it isn't and anyone who say…
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6 experts · 19 posts · 11d ago
Anil Dash Colin Mary Branscombe Doll coty.bsky.social mackuba.eu
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“I mean, it's easy to know, you can just ask vulnerable people and they will tell you! Perhaps the fact that you can't ask those people on that platform is a signal.” evidence ↗
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Anil Dash: What denial? It is absolutely false to say it's an inclusive place. It is straight-up a place where you're welcome to tell most of us that you want us dead. It is a place where you can be paid to p…
Anil Dash: If you think *those things are okay*, then say that. But we're not in denial. We just have standards. Say that your standards have changed from who you used to be when you didn't do business with p…
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4 experts · 11 posts · 6d ago
Colin Fran Litterio Doll B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“Well, harming people is bad for reasons other than how it might transform you as a person. Arguably the main ways that it’s bad to harm others have nothing at all to do with that in fact.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Doll: The question isn't “Does AI possess moral status?” This is a red herring. It's “What kind of person do I become if I make a habit of treating beings I encounter with contempt?”
Doll: Virtue is cultivated through practice. You become just by practicing justice, courageous by practicing courage, and kind by practicing kindness.
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4 experts · 9 posts · 18d ago
Grace Dustin Moskovitz rev. howard arson Doll
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“Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act”…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Grace: Since I’ve done a lot of Yud defending, here are some Yud critiques: - he’s wildly overconfident, especially about things like philosophy of mind - his plan for AI safety is bad - his “pivotal act”…
Grace: I respect a lot of his ideas, and I want the bulk of AI safety efforts to be as far removed from him as possible
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4 experts · 7 posts · 15d ago
Colin Doll brennan Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“seemingly the mundane answer is still just critical mass there's still lots of great people there who aren't here and it's hard to initiate a whole exodus at once without some big exogenous incentive” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Doll: For those in the simcluster/AI space here that are also on X perhaps you can geninely answer why a lot of AI people remain there and dont come here? Genuinely looking for their reasons and not goin…
brennan: seemingly the mundane answer is still just critical mass there's still lots of great people there who aren't here and it's hard to initiate a whole exodus at once without some big exogenous incentive
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2 experts · 16 posts · 17d ago
Cat Hicks Doll
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“Attention marketplaces always need existential threats to get subscriptions” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
Doll: As a trans femme who works with AI the anti ai side isnt taken seriously because the anti ai side lies to peoples faces about basic things that people can see with their face eyes arent true. Maybe…
Doll: And now your solution you wanna do is become more extreme? Ok good luck we look forward to the moderates you alienate joining our side were more than happy to accomodate them.
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2 experts · 11 posts · 5d ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll
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“"If you didn't take the effort to write it, I shouldn't have to read it." Well, congratulations, you've just disqualified secretaries, ghostwriters, editors, translators, speechwriters, collaborati…” evidence ↗
Doll: This take must hit really hard if youre fucking stupid. If effort equals worthiness to read then all of us are already damned because we moved on from pressing a stylus into clay.
Doll: We have been reducing the effort it takes to create words since the dawn of writing because it fucking sucks and we dont like spending that effort on that. If ten words can become 100 and you read …
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3 experts · 6 posts · 19d ago
rev. howard arson ae Doll
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“one thing that i do not understand is the fact that the "alexa teaches children that women may be treated like machines" and "it is a sign of psychosis to treat a machine whose interface is social …” evidence ↗
rev. howard arson: one thing that i do not understand is the fact that the "alexa teaches children that women may be treated like machines" and "it is a sign of psychosis to treat a machine whose interface is social …
rev. howard arson: yes, i suppose if you generate a completely different grounding for that literature than the one which actually exists, then that follows.
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