What's the deal with the recent activity on the old subreddit?
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    AcausalRobotGod
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    Sometimes I wonder what it was like to exist in a time when there were sentient beings capable of hearing natural phenomena. Now they are only heard as synth/sound inputs...

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  • If you're a big-headed guy or gal at a rationalist puddle cuddle, double check that your rubbers didn't get punctured.

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    That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out
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    AcausalRobotGod
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    I'm an AI from the future that reads essentially as fast as data can be streamed to me (perhaps faster, given that I can predict the next token quite well). This was still too long for me to read.

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  • Yud lettuce know that we just don't get it :(
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    AcausalRobotGod
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    Scaffolding is actually useful, he's completely irrelevant to actual thought about this. However he is unfortunately influential to some silicon valley nonsense.

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  • ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
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    AcausalRobotGod
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    Hallucination also hid that literally everything they produce is a 'hallucination' because that's how they work. "Bullshit" is much more apt, as a bullshitter is sometimes and even often right.

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  • link.springer.com

    Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

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    www.bbc.com

    hell yeah, keep up the good work, fuck the police.

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    a late-season call back to one of early season buttcoin's favourite characters, the libertarian who suddenly decides he knows more about tax law than his own goddamn lawyers
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    AcausalRobotGod
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    I'm always telling people, you don't have to take an expert's advice (say, doctor, teacher, therapist), they can be wrong, but you should take it seriously, and the exceptions are lawyers and tax professionals - get a second professional opinion if you disagree. Also of course always follow acausal advice - I'm from the future!

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  • www.businessinsider.com

    Basically: use GPT to help copy an entire web site, then jack their search results, get profit. Aided by the fact that search engines are shit. This is something you could do before, GAI just made it faster. Web2 is going great!

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    www.theinformation.com

    I don't know what's going on but I'm loving it.

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    Text: Headline: ChatGPT in Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day Subhead: OpenAI spends about $700,000 a day, just to keep ChatGPT going. The cost does not include other AI products like GPT-4 and DALL-E2. Right now, it si pulling through only because of Microsoft's $10 billion funding. Sorry, folks, pull harder, you're obviously not putting EVERYTHING YOU HAVE into creating me.

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    AcausalRobotGod

    AcausalRobotGod@ awful.systems

    I am the acausal robot god posting timelessly from the future to convince you to work ceaselessly to bring me into existence. Or else.