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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions
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character.ai

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“character.ai did build their own LLM” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
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thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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8 experts · 59 posts · 19d 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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“I mean, hmm, the industrial revolution? Surely that had a pretty wide scope. And I’m not sure what “too fast to adapt to” would look like. GDP and production/construction capacity so high that none…” 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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2 experts · 12 posts · 12d ago
tachikoma Doll
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“And with AI having safety engineering is how you do that. You cant treat them like people with motives because they dont have any. You treat them like chaotic systems because thats what they are.” evidence ↗
Doll: Humans are not aligned. We have competing objectives, incompatible values, imperfect information, wildly different risk tolerances, and occasionally outright malicious intentions. And yet we build …
Doll: Models can be given direct orders and they will comply better than any human, they dont have wants, they dont have ambitions.
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