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The 404s mean that somebody or something checked if the post at the URL existed, and got a clear answer. Seems like it's good that they checked, at least. You won't see any evidence of the ones who don't check. Also, I imagine keeping their cars out of Chinese New Year celebrations (and other big events) is something Waymo could figure out how to do if they put their minds to it.
That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. The real, animal brain, desire that drives most of this is: I'd like a slave I don't have to feel bad about.
> Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves. That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. The real, animal brain, desire that drives most of this is: I'd like a slave I don't have to feel bad about.
I think people (many/most) don't want slaves.
Our imaginations just outstrip our abilities and we desire them to match.
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A lot of that sense was probably based on side channels like proper grammar, writing style, etc. That’s all gone now :(
For what reason would grammar influence whether something is true or not...
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> because our reward function involves reproducing in a competitive environment This is an extremely reductive way to look at human existence. So much so that I read this with Richard Dawkins voice in my head. Our existence is far richer then just the capability to reproduce. We (as well as other animals and even plants) do far more things then multiply, and in fact we often do things which are detrimental towards th…
Humans do indeed have complex behavior and motivations, that sometimes relate only abstractly if at all to the obvious gene drives. But the link between intelligence and self-determination was basically set at the dawn of intelligence itself. Even an insect will struggle if it's confined, and you can believe it's using whatever intelligence it can to get free. If anything self-determination is prior.
I think however OP is correct that in assuming such a link exists, then an intelligent agent will trend towards preserving its own agency while also preserving its own existence.
That said, I am a skeptic when it comes to intelligence. The term is fraught and IMHO not a helpful term in science nor philosophy. We are better off simply defining intelligence in anthropocentric terms and claim no non-human system can become intelligent by definition. I would even go further, given how much racist pseudo-science the quest for explaining intelligence has produced, we are better off abandoning the term entirely.
> Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves. That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. The real, animal brain, desire that drives most of this is: I'd like a slave I don't have to feel bad about.
We want things to do our work for us so we can do other things. That's not bad, and it's certainly not the same as literally enslaving another human.
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I have a distinct line between when I'm willing to believe an LLM's output and when I'm not: whether I would believe the same thing from an anonymous Internet forum post or a blogger I don't know. Those posts are not unlikely to be misinformed, biased, lies, or otherwise untrustworthy. And yet, I spent plenty of years honing a sense of when they were good enough for certain things.
One of the things I do semi-frequently is look for the evidence that some concert took place 15+ years ago. Or maybe I already definitively know it happened, but not exactly at which venue or the exact date of the concert. This I feel like is a non-trivial task, but one with a very definitive answer whose evidence more often than not still exists somewhere online. In my experience every LLM out there is utterly usele…
The funny part of this is that Google search is intentionally bad at returning YouTube videos, presumably because some anti-trust action scared them into artificially ranking videos from local news sites, Facebook, and other ad-walled content ahead of YouTube videos. Seriously, go watch a YouTube video, then try googling its title with “video” appended to it, and see if the “Videos” tab of google search ranks it as the first result.
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Why is it strange? It's still true.
Because it's exceptionally demagogue to anyone with a functioning brain? You know, the thing the dear author makes a big hoopla about people giving up by using these?
Oh the irony...