YourNetworkIsHaunted
I argue that we shouldn't be tolerant of sloppy factual claims, let alone lies and disinformation, but we also need to keep perspective: it's worth opposing fascists even if they don't pollute that much, and it's worth protecting labor even if the externalities of doing so are fairly negligible. That is, I'll warrant, a somewhat subtle and nuanced position, but hey. This is my blog, so I get to have opinions that take more than a sentence or two to express!
Apparently we live in a world where "lying and Nazis are both bad, and Nazi liars are the worst" is a nuanced and subtle position. Sneers directed at society rather than the writer, but it was just a big oof moment.
Given that the current post-rollback prompt has some interesting features I can only imagine what Elon did to it.
As always, whatever nefarious ends Elon and Co. may have us undercut by their being greedy and incompetent in equal measure.
I love this. Especially the ending, talking about the titanic struggle to make AI competent enough to outsmart the people who think it's going to be omniscient. Glad to see I've got another writer to chase down that I had somehow missed previously.
Even with the name it had me going for a while. Whoever wrote it is gonna want to have a lawyer on speed dial for the inevitable license violation.
On one hand the AI doomers are convinced he's building a suitcase nuke.
On the other hand, skeptical viewers want more assurance he's not just taking the money and building dumb tweets.
This is the kind of quality journalism that I need more of in my life. Also I learned a surprising amount about olive oil, which means it's more useful than anything else Sam Altman has been involved in as far as I can tell.
Honestly I think his whole channel is pretty damn good if you want to see someone with actual chops - here meaning an economics doctorate and an encyclopedic memory for The Simpsons memes - dig into the research in a way that effectively balances depth and approachability. The first one of his that I remember was an examination of Pinker's use and abuse of data in his radical optimist manifesto that I can't remember the title of.
Massive missed opportunity there.
Holy crap I had missed the actual fallout on that front. Tech execs really are not like us, I guess.