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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.

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jesus this is gross man

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hot take: A lying machine that destroys your intelligence and mental health is unsafe for everyone, mentally ill or no

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We’ve found the Great Filter, and it’s weaponised pareidolia.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

"Yes," chatGPT whispered gently ASMR style, "you should but that cryptocoin it is a good investment". And thus the aliens sectioned off the Sol solar system forever.

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[–] diz@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think it is almost undeniable chatbots trigger some low level brain thing. Eliza has 27% Turing Test pass rate. And long before that, humans attributed weather and random events to sentient gods.

This makes me think of Langford’s original BLIT short story.

And also of rove beetles that parasitize ant hives. These bugs are not ants but they pass the Turing test for ants - they tap the antennae with an ant and the handshake is correct and they are identified as ants from this colony and not unrelated bugs or ants from another colony.

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