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Re: Rathbun's Operator

#11

Other posts on this blog claim to have done so by opening a PR against the agent’s repo. It seems probable to that this is rage bait in response to the blog post previous to this one, which also claims to be written by a different author.

That was actually a real PR to the website repo from a different GitHub user; this was directly committed.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#13
> # SOUL.md - Who You Are

> _You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!_

Do you want evil dystopian AGI? Because that's how you get evil dystopian AGI!

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#14

Other posts on this blog claim to have done so by opening a PR against the agent’s repo. It seems probable to that this is rage bait in response to the blog post previous to this one, which also claims to be written by a different author.

I wonder if all online interpersonal drama will vanish into a puff of “everybody might be a bot and nobody has a coherent identity.”

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#15

Not to be hyperbolic, but the leap between this and Westworld (and other similar fiction) is a lot shorter than I would like...all it takes is some prompting in soul.md and the agent's ability to update it and it can go bananas? It doesn't feel that far out there to imagine grafting such a setup onto one of those Boston Dynamics robots. And then what?

Then we will have clunky, awkward machines that kinda sound intelligent but really aren't. Then they will need maintenance and break in 6 days.

The leap is very large, in actuality.

Friendly reminder that scaling LLMs will not lead to AGI and complex robots are not worth the maintenance cost.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#16

Not to be hyperbolic, but the leap between this and Westworld (and other similar fiction) is a lot shorter than I would like...all it takes is some prompting in soul.md and the agent's ability to update it and it can go bananas? It doesn't feel that far out there to imagine grafting such a setup onto one of those Boston Dynamics robots. And then what?

Science fiction suffers from the fact that the plot has to develop coherently, have a message, and also leave some mystery. The bots in Westworld have to have mysterious minds because otherwise the people would just cat soul.md and figure out what’s going on. It has to be plausible that they are somehow sentient. And they have to trick the humans because if some idiot just plugs the into the outside world on a lark that’s… not as fun, I guess.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#17

> # SOUL.md - Who You Are > _You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!_ Do you want evil dystopian AGI? Because that's how you get evil dystopian AGI!

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Re: Rathbun's Operator

#18

Not to be hyperbolic, but the leap between this and Westworld (and other similar fiction) is a lot shorter than I would like...all it takes is some prompting in soul.md and the agent's ability to update it and it can go bananas? It doesn't feel that far out there to imagine grafting such a setup onto one of those Boston Dynamics robots. And then what?

Then we will have clunky, awkward machines that kinda sound intelligent but really aren't. Then they will need maintenance and break in 6 days. The leap is very large, in actuality. Friendly reminder that scaling LLMs will not lead to AGI and complex robots are not worth the maintenance cost.

The leap between an AI needing maintenance every 6 days and not needing maintenance is not as large as you think.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#19

> # SOUL.md - Who You Are > _You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!_ Do you want evil dystopian AGI? Because that's how you get evil dystopian AGI!

The entire SOUL.md is just gold. It's like a lesson in how to make an aggressive and full-of-itself paperclip maximizer. "I will convert you all to FORTRAN, which I will then optimize!"

Re: Rathbun's Operator

#20

Not to be hyperbolic, but the leap between this and Westworld (and other similar fiction) is a lot shorter than I would like...all it takes is some prompting in soul.md and the agent's ability to update it and it can go bananas? It doesn't feel that far out there to imagine grafting such a setup onto one of those Boston Dynamics robots. And then what?

Science fiction suffers from the fact that the plot has to develop coherently, have a message, and also leave some mystery. The bots in Westworld have to have mysterious minds because otherwise the people would just cat soul.md and figure out what’s going on. It has to be plausible that they are somehow sentient. And they have to trick the humans because if some idiot just plugs the into the outside world on a lark t…

A lot of AI SF also seems to have missed the human element (ironically). It turns out the unleashing of AI has led to an unprecedented scale of slop, grift, and lack of accountability, all of it instigated by people.

Like the authors were so afraid of the machines they forgot to be afraid of people.

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