Evinceo

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Getting Gebru in there would be fucking hilarious, I can't believe Wired asked her. Not loving that they're conflating her with EAs though.

If you want to annoy an AI doomer ask why they don't support Gebru.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

GitHub doesn't need to take away the GPL, it's got Copilot to launder any code you like.

It is very weird to see a generation of people too young to remember Vista grow up and not heed the warnings. But I think that it's also a case of kids getting into it via Paul Graham and wanting to start companies instead of getting into it via Stallman and having computers instead of friends.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:

Couldn't a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they've founded thousands of hospitals and such. They're very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For the lab leak theory to work you have to assume not only that some workers at the lab got infected, but also that they spread it all over the city before anybody noticed, such that by the time anyone did notice, they were several degrees of contact from the lab workers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the viruses themselves would be marked with radioactive isotopes.

Is that true? Once the virus replicated in a cell, the new copies wouldn't be tagged, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I cannot believe they kept the Quora guy.

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

Men will literally devote their lives to becoming scifi Cassandra instead of going to therapy.

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