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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.

wow what a clusterfuck

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck twitter. Post a screenshot of the tweet, please, or do the next best thing and don’t refer to it at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fraudulent nonprofit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

all the fraud mostly, but check out this utterly normal shit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

thinking Microsoft called and said "aight time for the grownups to have a little word"

edit: yep

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m hoping for a protracted fight between the AI cultists and the technofascists while the world watches on and realizes the whole thing was a circus act the entire time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

yeah, there's some good potential

the first time around openai got to mass-scrape in peace because people didn't really have an eye on how they were doing it. if you want to quickly make another company and restart, you need whole new datasets and whole new implementations (and possibly algos too - otherwise if it's too GPT-y they could probably get sued)

I hope they continue at pace!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenAI’s current board consists of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Unlike traditional companies, the board isn’t tasked with maximizing shareholder value, and none of them hold equity in OpenAI.

We're not like, your traditional company. We do small plates.

Instead, their stated mission is to ensure the creation of “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

Thought they were trying to melt the ice caps tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this just how every tech company starts out? Google just want to help you find things on the web. Facebook just wants you to help connect with friends. We are very serious people doing serious work for humanity and you need to listen to us, and possibly give us things for free. It's all about positioning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. Another way to think about that is: they actually are honestly and genuinely trying to help humanity with their inventions and so forth, except for them “humanity” is just the wallet of whoever is bankrolling them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

oh they can be 100% sincere about their humanitarian ideals. But investor RTO, need for revenue streams to cover expenses, general market forces - these will always outstrip and determine the final cause of a company. Ideals don't matter, eventually, at most, PR in the service of expanding market share, intentionally or not.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Do they want him re-instated in the polycule, too? Will it be like that scene in Diamond Age?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the real misaligned AI already exists and starts with a C

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

can anyone give me a pdf or pastebin or something of this? I'm not a fuck gonna pay those sub rates just to see this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so it seems all those people with millions in options and stock to lose were going full metal harassment to try save their baby: https://nitter.net/jacquesthibs/status/1727134087176204410

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