I think this is what the parent meant by regulatory capture.
True, I didn’t read the whole comment.
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xwdv commented on Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing? twitter.com/karaswisher/s... · Posted by u/apsec112
What has me scratching my head is the fact that Altman has been on a world tour preaching the need for safety in AI. Many people here believed that this proselytizing was in part an attempt to generate regulatory capture. But given what's happening now, I wonder how much Altman's rhetoric served the purpose of maintaining a good relationship with Sutskever. Given that Altman was pushing the AI safety narrative publicly and pushing things on the product side, I'm led to believe that Sutskever did not want it both ways and was not willing to compromise on the direction of the company.
Altman was pushing that narrative because he’s a ladder kicker.
He doesn’t give a shit about “safety”. He just wants regulation that will make it much harder for new AI upstarts to reach or even surpass the level of OpenAI’s success, thereby cementing OpenAI’s dominance in the market for a very long time, perhaps forever.
He’s using a moral high ground as a cover for more selfish objectives, beware of this tactic in the real world.
xwdv commented on Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue filfre.net/2023/11/puttin... · Posted by u/doppp
> I mean, was there rape in Super Mario Brothers? The antagonist is quite the princess-kidnapper.
I was surprised to see they only now re-released Super Mario RPG. There's a forced-marriage story arc in that one too, and Mario Odyssey also had an abort-the-wedding mission.
I'm in a weird position where you don't agree with me, but I actually agree with you. Yeah, wedding implies an unwanted consummation, but there's already kidnapping and unwanted bondage (marriage), which are themselves serious crimes and boundary violations. What may or may not happen next isn't really the point since we're already in not-ok territory.
I don't have a dog in this fight, I was mainly arguing against the Setzer-wouldn't-do-that line of thought. He's a wildcard who lives for himself, not a saint. Celes leveraged his own ego against him to challenge him to a game-- and cheat at it to guarantee her success. She didn't need no man to save her. Even then she ended up having to babysit him later.
Take another look at the cast of FF6 and you’ll realize a lot of them aren’t really good people… Locke is a thief, Shadow is a straight up killer for hire, Setzer a degenerate gambler and rapist, Edgar a creepy womanizer, and Celes was gleefully killing people for the empire before changing sides (imagine a Nazi general just deciding she’ll join the Allies instead).
xwdv commented on Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down reuters.com/technology/me... · Posted by u/JeremyNT
Knowing what I know, I personally wouldn’t advise doing any kind of business with Sam Altman.
xwdv commented on A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger stranger.video/... · Posted by u/underanalyzer
A human blink is 100ms, it would be amazing if in half that time a blink could be detected and the feed immediately switch to someone new once you open your eyes again.
xwdv commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
Because you can know someone non-well and think they're a really good person. It's not strong evidence, but it's not nothing.
I don’t know Sam Altman well but I do not think he’s a particularly good person, so there’s some counter-evidence.
Personally I welcome this shake up. Some of the things I’ve seen Altman write about are troubling.
xwdv commented on Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue filfre.net/2023/11/puttin... · Posted by u/doppp
Mmm, I would say Chrono Trigger and Tales of Phantasia were also up there.
Chrono trigger is a great game, but I don’t think the story actually holds up that well. For one the time travel mechanic is fairly juvenile, and from what I remember the game is missing one of the most important elements of a good time travel story: when you see effects happen before the cause (which presumably is the work of future versions of characters traveling back in time), so you never reach that satisfying loop back where you meet the past version of yourself and realize it was actually yourself that you saw at that point in time. Instead you just do stuff in the past and it results in some changes in the future, but those changes should have actually always been there in the first place if you would have been successful. It employs an alternate timeline type of time travel which is easy to understand but not particularly accurate or mentally stimulating.
xwdv commented on Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
People named Alexa will be thrilled that this shit never caught on, and will be on its way out soon.
xwdv commented on Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue filfre.net/2023/11/puttin... · Posted by u/doppp
I still feel Final Fantasy 6 was the best JRPG of the retro era. At the time it had heavy themes you wouldn’t expect a child to grapple with: the ideas that the good guys can just straight up lose and having to live with the consequences, characters whose arcs may never truly be redeemed (because they can fucking die), and even complex issues like the passing of loved ones, committing suicide when all hope is lost, gambling addictions, slitting your own mothers throat for some money, rape and genocide, interspecies relationships, racism, speciesism, the rise of fascism and the use of technology to enslave the masses. It should be a required play through for a young child, and a seasoned adult should provoke conversations about events in the game.