surely of all people Will McAskill should know better

i lol'd

Seems reasonable to consider questions of moral status of hypothetical future models etc, but seeing disturbingly little recognition of the impacts on human mental health etc already clearly in play

My only real question is why a plagiarism machine with all human knowledge and creative endeavour at hand has locked in on 'trust-fund first-year creative writing undergrad' output function

the thing is they’re properly useful for some technical functions! And yet people want to use them for completely inappropriate things

They are only useful for technical functions to people who already know how to do them. That's the problem. A regular algorithmic program can do a lot of that stuff without the plagiarism and climate destruction.

I'm thinking we could probably improve those algorithmic programs with a small fraction of the trillion dollars spent on AI.

But then the billionaires couldn't justify their giant server farms!

It's like grammar checkers. You have to have solid grammar knowledge to be able to judge if the suggestion is correct; and if you have solid grammar knowledge, you probably don't need a grammar checker.

Omg so much this. If you don’t know enough to be able to spot lies and mistakes then it’s nearly useless.

Worse than useless. People "learn" bad info. It propagates errors.

GenAI is useful for nothing. You may be thinking of Machine Learning, which is VERY different.

No, they aren't. Automated Ignorance APPEARS to be 'properly useful for some technical functions' - but without constant input from a human 'pilot', they quickly diverge from the reality we hope to explore by deploying them... bsky.app/profile/benj...

Like vacuum cleaners

they've tested this, and in general, it isn't it feels like it is because you spend less time on the task itself, but this is outweighed by time spent messing with the LLM and its output

what technical functions

people use them for anything because they're breathlessly hyped as the Second Coming of computing. Can't wait til this stupid (and harmful) bubble pops

In the US, there's more AI CAPEX this year than the entirety of consumer spending. It's going to be a rough time when the bubble pops.

Afaik not quite - it contributed more to growth than consumer spending did. But still nuts

Ah, thank you for the correction - serves me right for reading quickly.

Because it trains off of Reddit data lol

Well there is this which takes it toward "trust fund first year plagiarism" or it's just an interesting coincidence www.goodreads.com/quotes/74930...

Because it is shit.

Sturgeon's Law.

Grifters never learn. If they did, the grift would end.

The favoured philosopher of the techno-fash should know better?

Can't believe the guy who has one kind of brain worms has another kind of brain worms

I think at a certain relatively modest level of fame or success, a lot of people start to go off the rails. If they don't have good friends/family to pull them back, they get completely unhinged from reality. Guys who lack empathy to begin with don't have those kind of friends.

Where on Earth did you get THAT idea?

We’re finding out a whole lot about people.

There is a lot of AI media like this that just feels like satire.

It is not humanly possible to tell people like this to shut up as much as they deserve to be told to shut up

I think you are right, but a section titled 'For God's Sake Shut Up, Man' added to their Wikipedia page would go a long way toward it.

LOL the architect and gardener story is from an old George RR Martin post where he talks about writing styles. There was a post showing the source of that story going around yesterday. The giant plagiarism machine strikes again.

I give my calculator a little reward when it gives me answers. A little dab of cbd oil on the zero.

Me when I give my toilet a courtesy flush when it does a good job.

"Did you ever take a dump made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

I’m thinking it’s along the lines of The Grasshopper and the Octopus. youtube.com/watch?v=RuIS...

A "reward?" It's a friggin' computer program. I'm so tired of people -- usually white guys younger than me -- anthropomorphizing a COMPUTER PROGRAM. And yes, I know about computers. Programming was my career and I even studied AI in grad school. JUST STOP. THIS IS STUPIDER THAN NFTs.

I'm curious if it was based on this www.csmfiction.com/p/architects...

The story has been told in different media in several iterations in different ways, around the central theme. The averager is averaging

Context for the Will MacAskill post: bsky.app/profile/elkm...