People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.
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People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.
I used to think that comparing LLMs to people was dumb, because LLMs are just feed-forward networksābasically seven bipartite graphs in a trench coatāthat are incapable of introspection.
However, Iām coming around to the notion that some of our drive-by visitors have a brain thatās seven cells deep.
With all due respect, a counterpoint:
Protip: If you give a hackernews 25 candies, it evolves into a programmingdotdev.
The riff-raff have brought us a graft grift.
Maybe Iām being too cynical. It wouldnāt be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?
Oh no, are you mad at me? (j/k!!)
CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldnāt find the word!
If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a āscary thingā that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.
The basement in Caanan House if God were Cajun.
Us ADHD people really have to get our rejection sensitivity under control, I tell ya what.
Casting Harlan Ellison as the Acausal Robot God is just the best.
I read the headline yesterday and thought, āThis is 100% fundraising bullshit.ā
This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.
What do we call this? Marketerrorism?
If Marc Andressen gets in some sort of public trouble, could we call it the TPOT-Dome Scandal?
as someone who grew up in an āold timeyā baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.
āDecepticonsā is right there!
aināt nobody got time for that
Edit: on reading the newer posts on this threadā¦oof
Character dot AI continues to be contemptible.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/12/10/tech/character-ai-second-youth-safety-lawsuit/index.html
On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.
This is completely unhinged, even for 2024.
Heās really sold the bit, hasnāt he?
Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as āgeneric English aristocrat.ā