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Rathbun's Operator

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Post by skeledrew »

bayindirh wrote: post #139
pibaker wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The downside is he will likely receive a lot of death threats. Probably in his literal, physical mailbox. Having seen what a self righteous online mob can do in the name of justice over literally nothing, I fully defend his decision to stay anonymous. As much as I find his action idiotic and negligent.

I believe the rules are simple. 1. Don't do anything you don't want to experience yourself. 2. If you don't want to find out, do not fool around. As an arguable middle ground, they can plead to Scott non-anonymously while addressing the public anonymously. That'd work to a point, but it's not ideal. Also, their tone is coming through very cocky. Defining their agent as a "God!", then giving it a cocky and "you're alw…

If it was malicious then a call for deanonymization is meaningless. Similar in spirit (though not intent) to how Anna's Archive, etc just ignore court orders and continue doing their thing.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

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Post by DANmode »

foobar10000 wrote: post #19
actinium226 wrote: post #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!

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!"

Are people that can’t spell known to like FORTRAN?

Re: Rathbun's Operator

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Post by ohbleek »

scottshambaugh wrote: post #44

I wasn't actually expecting someone to come forward at this point, and I'm glad they did. It finally puts a coda on this crazy week. This situation has completely upended my life. Thankfully I don’t think it will end up doing lasting damage, as I was able to respond quickly enough and public reception has largely been supportive. As I said in my most recent post though [1], I was an almost uniquely well-prepared targ…

The tone of their writing and their descriptions of the agents behavior lead me to believe they are lying about the level of direction they provided to the agent. They clearly want to appear to be more clever and ingenious than their skills will allow. They’re minimally admitting to a narrow set of actions to make it seem as if they have cleverly engineered an intelligent agent, but it too closely resembles their own personality to be anything beyond an agent that rephrases the operator’s own remarks and carried out the specific actions it was directed to do. Anything they admit to here we can safely speculate that they actually went 2-3 steps further.

Re: Rathbun's Operator

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Post by ryanchibana »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #105
ryanchibana wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I put my name on my post. So that's one less thing you have to worry about.

I think you did a great job! Also gutsy, some people might mistake you for the operator (and they did!)

Thanks! I think that's the only negative thing that might've come out of this for me, but that person corrected themselves and apologized quickly.
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