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I would write that like this: The "we've been telling ourselves we're getting better at prompting" line hit. I run a small team of 10, and Claude has been part of our workflow for months. Looking back, my prompts did not change nearly as much as the way I work changed. The shaping goes both ways, and I don't think the labs' evals are really built to see that.
“I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.” — Commissioner Pravin Lal, “Man…
"...And what is the 'Self', if not a pattern of data? What is consciousness, if not an illusion of intelligence residing within meat?" — Prime Function Aki Zeta-5, "The Fallacies of Self-Awareness"
“I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.” — Commissioner Pravin Lal, “Man…
The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.
-Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Report on Human Rights"
The voice acting was great. This quote is 6m3s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1N8_Lkeps#t=6m3s
Genejacks is also great. 9m10s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hou-Iwv1GvM#t=9m10s
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Everyone will have an AI assistant! The models will be open and free because of overwhelming competition and they will run on cheap local ASIC accelerators that use little power and fit in the palm of your hand! All the VC driven wild spenders will eventually cave and collapse when they can't deliver on their wild AGI promises, then their proprietary models will be sold at auctions for cheap! (I am being proactive he…
Yes, exactly. Moore's law says that in less than 10 years you will be able to fit today's state of the art models on your phone. If you add in all of the computationally and memory neutral improvements and breakthroughs that we will accumulate over the next 10 years then it will be both far more capable and far more reliable than today's models. An AI assistant you can trust and bring with you is coming, and almost n…
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Yes, exactly. Moore's law says that in less than 10 years you will be able to fit today's state of the art models on your phone. If you add in all of the computationally and memory neutral improvements and breakthroughs that we will accumulate over the next 10 years then it will be both far more capable and far more reliable than today's models. An AI assistant you can trust and bring with you is coming, and almost n…
Ah yes the -2nm node.
It's too bad node size is a linear dimension rather than area. If it were area, we could get into its many complex/imaginary properties.
Economics analysis was wrong for years in multiple place thanks to an error in one of Piketty's spreadsheets. AI hallucinates. That is a fact. Trusting language models to fill spreadsheet cells ought to be an arrestable offense. https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/on-piketty-and-...
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> the username checks out. Very original. > transhumanists - yes. Luciferians - this definition is a lot more broad, branched, and complex. one transhumanist is hell-bent on Christianity (or at least seems to be; also pun intended) and most others have an atheistic position. Which transhumanist is hell-bent on Christianity? If you're approaching this seriously then provide names please. There have been plenty of Luci…
Maybe they mean Thiel?
Well, what are we aligning it with? Civilization is already a misaligned superintelligence (aligned mostly with Moloch, these days). Civilization accelerated by AI just moves in the same direction faster. Moloch on speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSsKV5F4xc Another angle to this is that superintelligence requires supermorality. Super morality looks unpleasant from below. My dad won't let me have more candy, w…
it depends whether you think humanity / civilization are stable systems meant to exist in equilibrium, which they might not be.