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Why is Yudkowsky's HPMOR a "warcrime"?
It's great - there's just a group on HN that think it's status-y to hate on it.
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Or they believe the mission is going to die with how the board is performing, which is in fact the correct take. The board isn't merely hindering the mission, that's downplaying the extraordinary incompetence of the remaining OpenAI board.
I get the OpenAI part, but why join MS? A new company ok, but that kills the mission for sure. That's like Obi Wan joining the Sith because Anakin didn't bring balance to the force.
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We cannot ascertain the family circumstances of Altman's family. His sister's allegations are serious, but no legal actions were taken. However, it is surprising to see the treatment of his family, especially considering he is a man who purports to "care" about the world and envisions a bright future for all. Regardless of whether his sister has mental health issues or financial problems, it is unlikely that such a c…
He has tried to help her as even she has admited that he tried to give her a house. When asked for money he had conditions like going back on her medication which she refused and then complained about on social media. Some people dont want helped in ways they need.
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Given 90%, including leadership, seems a bad career move for remaining people not to sign, even if you agreed with the board's action.
I think the board did the right thing, just waaaay too late for it to be effective. They’d been cut out long ago and just hadn’t realized it yet. … but I’d probably sign for exactly those good-career-move reasons, at this point. Going down with the ship isn’t even going to be noticed, let alone change anything.
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Unless D'angelo has some expensive eight figure lifestyle, he's not going to a poorhouse anytime soon. > He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering, until 2008. > D'Angelo was an advisor to and investor in Instagram before its acquisition by Facebook in 2012.
That depends on the amount of damage you cause.
Where is the precedent for this?
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Surely? The output is filtered, not the murderous tendencies lurking beneath the surface.
> murderous tendencies lurking beneath the surface …Where is that "beneath the surface"? Do you imagine a transformer has "thoughts" not dedicated to producing outputs? What is with all these illiterate anthropomorphic speculations where an LLM is construed as a human who is being taught to talk in some manner but otherwise has full internal freedom?
At the same time, the original question was how can something that is forced to be polite engage in the genocide of humanity, and my non-joke answer to that is that many of history's worst criminals and monsters were perfectly polite in everyday life.
I am not afraid of AI, AGI, ASI. People who are, it seems to me, have read a bit too much dystopian sci-fi. At the same time, "alignment" is, I believe, a silly nonsense that would not save us from a genocidal AGI. I just think it is extremely unlikely that AGI will be genocidal. But it is still fun to joke about. Fun, for me anyway, you don't have to like my jokes. :)
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> suck wealth from the poor and Smaug the money away like What does that even mean? They buy up factories and let them sit idle?
It's based on the false premise that there is a specific amount of wealth and that's it (which also requires fixed productivity, which is a crazy premise if one knows anything about the past several hundred years or has ever read a single history textbook). So in order for someone to be rich, they had to steal it from someone else. If you follow it to the logical conclusion, it's nothing more than repackaged original…
In China they do get to keep more proportionally, as a class. That only happens because they form the ruling class.
Why can't professional writers properly use Latin words? Why are misapplied plurals so common?
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Can't blame you. And I suspect the story is far from over, and that it may well get a lot weirder still.
Seems to me that sama and Microsoft have been on fairly equal footing since the 49:51 % deal was made. Then a seismic shift underneath Sam but Microsoft has enough stability and resources to more than compensate for the part of the 51% that was already in OpenAI's hands, which might not be under Sam's purview any more if he is kicked out. But then again it might be Sam's leadership which would still effectively be in…