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So it was a virtual girlfriend app, after all. Cashing-in on loneliness gives me the heebie-jeebies; in a dystopian cyberpunk way - extremely horny but 0% sexy.
I even tried it myself, lying in bed and creating sexual fantasies with Dolores through text, culminating in ejaculation. This was an excellent read. And I applaud the creator for experimenting with this to the fullest.
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Had a similar moment with playing around using smart contracts. As a joke I wrote a crypto for the company I worked at, which then got added to employment contracts, and an internal DAO styled administration layout. After coding this out for a few hours I realized I had re-created the company scrip, except on a blockchain. I ended up turfing the project and spending some time thinking about how horrific a future tech…
I don't get it. Yes, you re-created scrip. That's the opposite of a new technology coming in and causing problems, isn't it? It's a known issue with a known solution.
"You can work at a DAO and be paid on the blockchain"
"You can work at a company and be paid in script"
It's the same thing, but the modern technology masks what exactly is happening.
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Humans adapt within boundaries. A couple of examples of things humans did not adapt to: - emphathy at distance; nowadays, a drone operator will push a button, kill a dozen people, and feel like it was a videogame - prioritizing long-term and abstract rewards, over short term ones; this is the reason why we have phenomenons like global warming - adjusting hunger to virtually unlimited availability of food All the abov…
What if war became just a couple of countries intelligence bots crunching digits of pi until one came up with a new one. That country would be the winner and they could ask one thing from the 'losing' side that didn't result in destruction or terror.
> But, does humanity really need an AI friend? This reminds me of the Fredrick Pohl line "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." So I wonder what the traffic jam is going to look like given that the car seems to already be parked outside with the engine running. Faster depopulation across the developed world? Probably, but maybe there's something even more impo…
The traffic jam is society stymied by individuals mind-controlled at a level closer to connection to a human than any other way possible before this.
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To your point, if you were able to reason about it, couldn't you make some self-determination and decide for yourself or at least communicate what you wanted to your "slaver"? LLM's like GPT are just predicting the next token in a sequence of tokens. It's not magic. It's still just a computer program.
You are correct. But are you sure you are anything more?
The concept of human rights and human feelings in general is based on the human condition. That is we're born and we die and in between we need to find a way to take care of ourselves, create offspring etc. Our programming has evolved thoughts and feelings to manage these things.
If at some point, there were a true AGI, why would it care about human society or it's own rights we assigned it? It wouldn't have feelings and it would essentially be immortal. It could just wait for us to die out (or murder us) then do whatever it wanted.
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It's going to be an interesting century for sure. The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up.
> The human mind is simply not evolutionary adapted for what's coming up. Maybe we're in fact evolutionarily adapted to not being evolutionarily adapted. We have successfully dealt with a whole sequence of hard societal pivots by now…
I got koboldcpp ( https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp ) running locally on my M1 mac with 16gb. Use the guides on http://4chan.org/g/ in the AI Chatbot Thread. In the future, you will own and control access to your very own AI girlfriend running on your local machine, and you will be happy. Think of all the millions of guys in China and elsewhere who, due to sex selective abortion, will never have a wife. They des…
Interesting read. Others have also created virtual friends using ChatGPT. What I find unsavory, is OpenAI imposing content restrictions like NSFW. That can easily extend to censorship of non-PC content, unpopular political ideas, and more. The solution will (I hope) ultimately be open-source LLMs that you can run locally, on your own hardware.
I'm guessing they don't want payment processors cutting them off.
Everyone, even MS backed companies, are afraid of Visa.