[-] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

CNN: AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

I vaguely recognize the name, apparently he's a snot-nosed 25-yr old who got fired from OpenAI

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

"surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can't all be under some sort of mass delusion"

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

Enjoy today's craziest link: https://atomarine.co/

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

A LWer runs the numbers and doesn't run away screaming like Zitron:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history

Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

you missed the nod to masturbation

also "palm off" implies deceit on the ... palmer-offer

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

they're all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it's no biggie, think how productive the field will become

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681

btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated

For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.

Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Previously our lead funder was the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund.

Gemini please generate a word salad fund name

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 28 points 2 days ago

If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

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public service here in Sweden is running a post about how threats to AI heads are making them spend more money on security:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/hoten-mot-ai-topparna-okar-bolagen-satsar-miljoner-pa-personskydd

btw what's happened to mr molotov who tried to set Sama on fire?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
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Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

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This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

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“It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

The grifters in question:

Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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