SneerClub

[–] swlabr@awful.systems [S] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Hand in hand with Glenn Beck!

parent

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And Kate Bush?!?!

hideshow 4 child comments

parent

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

And an AI crank YouTuber!

parent

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago

Is it just me, or do these superintelligence research people always assume superintelligences act like malicious genies?

parent

[–] swlabr@awful.systems [S] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

She’s way too far down the list imo. She should make a deal with Woz, and get him to swap their places

parent

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

Perhaps they could exchange the experience.

parent

[–] mii@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago*

And right about when the general public started to realize that LLMs are fucking shit at pretty much everything. How convenient ...

Also lol at putting Steve Bannon in the top 10 signatories. All right then.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

I think many, if not most, of these signatories are just generally opposed to AI usage rather than the basilisk of it all

I must admit that I signed this statement (before I discovered SneerClub) and I was definitely against AI usage as a whole (still am) but I also still think superintelligence shouldn't be built, because if we're letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the "values" encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

[–] swlabr@awful.systems [S] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

but I also still think superintelligence shouldn’t be built, because if we’re letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the “values” encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

Well, sure. FWIW most of us here are on one of two trains:

"superintelligence" will never be built
There is no clear path from where we are technologically that leads to "superintelligence," so there isn't much point to worrying about it.

Of course, there is something to be said about not wanting anyone throwing money at Musk or Altman because they've conned people into thinking we're on the cusp. But yeah, I would say most people here do not share this concern, just as no one should be concerned about a dragon razing their town.

parent

[–] lurker@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago

FWIW im probably in/around camp two nowadays. I also do not think we should not give Altman and Musk money both because they’re conmen and weird alt-right techbros (I still remember Musk’s Nazi salute)