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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

that being almost certainly the process - they got GPT to polish up their notes because they know they can't write and are literally unable to tell good writing from bad writing

this is why the VCs were going full AGI Chicken Little after GPT-3 because it could write better than them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

all a bit Dunbar

but yeah, if Balaji wanted a private city then buying or renting the empty development fraud seems the closest he has to a prospect

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

from bsky:

Weeb3

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

long on keikakucoin! *

* translator's note: keikaku means plan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

oh totally, which is presumably why someone coined "mining"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had a look and couldn't find how it started being called mining. Satoshi started out calling it "farming".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no it's correct for what Balaji is postulating

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nuclear at least doesn't pump out CO2, so a lotta people who aren't like you describe consider it worth considering. 850MW of nuclear is better than 850MW of gas on this scale.

But the economics just completely fuck it. TMI unit 1 shut down cos it couldn't compete economically and only an IRA tax break makes it even plausible.

There's a big thing in Australia at the moment where the LNP, beholden to some donor or other, is pushing economically nonviable nuclear hard. And even a lotta the green side is saying "nice idea, now make the numbers work in this universe."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

it's a Roko plan, what could go wrong

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

we'll just build an atlantic garbage patch out of ice, and

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i saw it in my email and thought "did he fucking read it" and looking through his history, he absolutely didn't

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Ilya tweet:

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm. It was an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. So long, and thanks for everything. I am excited for what comes next — a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.

Jan tweet:

I resigned

this comes precisely 6mo after Sam Altman's job at OpenAI was rescued by the Paperclip Maximiser. NYT: "Dr. Sutskever remained an OpenAI employee, but he never returned to work." lol

orange site discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128

lesswrong discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JSWF2ZLt6YahyAauE/ilya-sutskever-and-jan-leike-resign-from-openai

 

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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