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papito commented on Elon Musk wants to open a university in Texas theverge.com/2023/12/14/2... · Posted by u/redm

papito · 2 years ago

It's obviously going to be all male - the first ALL INCEL university.

No women will want to be there, if there are any left in the Texas higher education system at all, considering they are going full Handmaid's Tale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/texas-abortion-kate-co...

papito commented on The AI Trust Crisis simonwillison.net/2023/De... · Posted by u/simonw

rqtwteye · 2 years ago

Just read this. I have had enough weird incidents where you for example chat with somebody about a topic and a day later I suddenly received ads Youtube recommendations about this topic. There is a lot of reason to not believe big companies. I don't see why Facebook should be more ethical than tobacco or oil companies that have been lying and obfuscating for decades.

The only solution I see is to make it illegal to use personal data. Especially make data brokers illegal. When you give a company access to your data, you often agree that they will pass the data to third parties who then pass it on and suddenly everybody has your data because you have permission to use your data.

papito · 2 years ago

They have so much data about you that they can predict what you are going to do or look for before you know it yourself.

Technology good enough is indistinguishable from magic.

papito commented on OpenAI Announces $10M Superalignment Grants openai.com/blog/superalig... · Posted by u/og_kalu

papito · 2 years ago

I am not sure autonomous driving will arrive in the next 10 years, let alone AGI.

These people are masterful con artists, throwing out buzzwords to hoover up billions of gullible VC dollars (a single tear rolls down my eye).

How is that Web 3.0 going? Did we build Richard Hendricks's new Internet yet - sometimes I think they take ideas from the HBO comedy just to f*k with us.

Granted, LLMs are a much more useful and substantial tech than Blockchain, it's an insult to [biological] intelligence to suggest that if we somehow train these things on JUST a bit more data, they will go sentient and murder us all.

The AI image generators still don't know that humans have five fingers. I think it's a long way to super-intelligence, friends.

papito commented on The pro-Israel information war jackpoulson.substack.com/... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

jdross · 2 years ago

Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms. https://twitter.com/antgoldbloom/status/1721561226151612602

If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/173279243496103143...

It also seems like these platforms create (rather than support) anti-Israeli views: https://twitter.com/antgoldbloom/status/1730255552738201854

US views skew pro-israel, and GenZ is closer to 50/50, so if there's something going on online, it's not in favor of Israel.

It's probably relevant that there are 1 billion Muslims to 16 million Jews, and that the largest relevant population of pro-Israeli internationals is India and Indian Hindus, and they are not on TikTok (blocked in India).

papito · 2 years ago

TikTok is a Chinese product, and therefore inseparable from the Communist Party. This may also be a factor. It's the safest (read: more moderated and controlled) large social media platform. Why? It may seem valuable to cause havoc in the US electorate at a critical time, splitting the age groups and driving a wedge hard.

For the terminally-online students this issue has almost become a litmus test - "If you are pro-Israel, you are not one of us. They say so on TikTok."

This is a very good example of how social media completely takes over and leads the herd blindly in one direction, either through manipulation, or through just natural hype and bandwagon effect.

In the past we had a few friends who would subject us to peer pressure and convince us to do stupid shit.

Now these kids are in global peer pressure groups of millions.

papito commented on Inside OpenAI's crisis over the future of artificial intelligence nytimes.com/2023/12/09/te... · Posted by u/twoodfin

Amezarak · 2 years ago

"AI safety" is completely bogus.

There are people who genuinely believe in a singularity-type AI that would have the potential to wipe out humanity. I personally don't think strong GAI is possible, or at least it's not likely using any known technique or any refinement of any known technique, but if you believe this, there's no such thing as AI safety. The best and most obvious course of action is to politically organize for a total ban on AI and make the development of AI anywhere in the world a cause for war. Thinking you could figure out how to chain up such an AI so that it only does what you want is taking an insane risk, and as t -> infinity, the risk becomes 1.

But when most people say AI safety, they seem to mean rigid ideological enforcement of whatever they believe is right, even if that means censoring true facts from AI, or forcing it to abide by some set of arbitrary values that represent consensus only in their clique...while at the same time, bemoaning what could happen if the wrong people got their hands on LLMs. This represents almost the totality of AI safetyism: we can only allow LLMs to enforce my beliefs. These people are effectively aligned (or often the same people as) those who believe we have to return to broadcast-media levels of information control, which for the elites, represents a historical oddity that gave them unprecedented control, which was then weakened by the Internet.

Sometimes they will make an actual safety argument along the lines of "but what if Bad Guys ask an LLM how to make a bioweapon." Aside from this being a silly hypothetical, fortunately, doing mass damage in this way is not easy, even with step-by-step directions. All the resources you need to do so that exist are already publicly available. It just requires lots of time, equipment, material, and expertise that an LLM cannot give you. Of course, you might make the argument that it cannot give them to you yet, but then the only solution is to shut down public science, not to ban LLMs from answering the wrong questions.

papito · 2 years ago

> who genuinely believe in a singularity-type AI that would have the potential to wipe out humanity

Believe? They genuinely welcome it. Larry Page, for example, in another recent NYT piece.

Marc Andreeseen?

"Effective accelerationism aims to follow the 'will of the universe': leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe," and "E/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism."

These people are so up their own asses, they completely lost the plot. These are the individuals who will self-regulate, also while casually musing about systematic genocide of the entire planet.

A superior race of being that is more efficient and which is to replace us? Geeee, never heard that one before. Sounds real nice. Maybe it can build very efficient gas chambers and furnaces too so it can thin the herd faster, eh!

AI is less of a problem than the people around it, who are borderline certifiable, but at least are raging sociopaths who masquerade as "thinkers". Dude, you were a good coder who came up with a better way of ranking pages when the field was wide open. Calm down.

papito commented on Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists natesilver.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/amadeuspagel

slily · 2 years ago

Your comment reminds me of this line from the submission:

"There’s also a generational divide in journalism, with younger journalists tending to be more openly left/progressive than their older peers — and tending to be more Manichean in dividing the world between good and evil rather than proceeding from the notion that people and news stories are complicated and it’s not particularly their job to pass moral judgment."

This is probably true of the younger generations in general, not just journalists.

Sadly any attempt at communicating a nuanced view makes you subject to vicious attacks from binary thinkers, who often miss the point and derail the discussion.

papito · 2 years ago

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papito commented on Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists natesilver.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/amadeuspagel

papito · 2 years ago

There are professional journalists out there who in most organizations will get into hot water or lose their jobs if they fabricate news or sources.

They will have biases, they will make mistakes, but most of them will do at least some due diligence, and together with fact checkers - this is the best we have.

Accept that and move on - or sit there and tell yourself that "nothing is true, nothing is real". Get your news from @HotJerseyGirl1998.

papito commented on Twitter has stopped paying its Google Cloud bills businessinsider.com/elon-... · Posted by u/doener

tr_user · 2 years ago

when a rich person doesn't pay their bills, it's cost cutting. when i don't do it, it's delinquency.

papito · 2 years ago

"You stopped paying your landlord? Brilliant!"