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"Billionaire investors are more irrational than me, a social media poster."

That's just it, governments won't "look ahead", they'll just panic when AGI is happening.

If you're wondering how they'll know it's happening, the USA has had DARPA monitoring stuff like this since before OpenAI existed.

I think you're reading way too much into OpenAI bungling its 15-month product lead, but also the whole "1 AGI company will take off" prediction is bad anyway, because it assumes governments would just let that happen. Which they wouldn't, unless the company is really really sneaky or superintelligence happens in the blink of an eye.

I like how this sounds exactly like a selectable videogame hero:

Undeterred by even the most dangerous and threatening of obstacles, Teemo scouts the world with boundless enthusiasm and a cheerful spirit. A yordle with an unwavering sense of morality, he takes pride in following the Bandle Scout's Code, sometimes with such eagerness that he is unaware of the broader consequences of his actions. Though some say the existence of the Scouts is questionable, one thing is for certain: Teemo's conviction is nothing to be trifled with.

It's going to be even more brutal than when Bitcoin popped.

I don't doubt your comment is legitimate, your account predates OpenAI and there's no way an OpenAI corporate account is writing about colonoscopies.

What are the odds this was upvoted to the top by OpenAI? 5 minutes of Hacker News clicks is pretty low-cost PR, and it reads exactly like PR.

Any normal post "applauding a company" for trying to not get its employees poached would be downvoted, and all the replies are negative too.

AI just reveals how lazy/cheap/low-standards they were already trying to be. And if AI keeps progressing at current speeds, those are the people who are going to be most easily replaced by AI-tutors within a few years. The actually-good teachers would still have a job in a sane world, but who knows what will happen.

People are thinking "how are video games going to use this?"

That's not the point, video games are worth chump-change compared to robotics. Training AIs on real-world robotic arms scaled poorly, so they're looking for paths that leverage what AI scales well at.

No it's good, you're ahead of the curve, most people aren't there yet.

The next step is to realize that, if life is a cheap simulation, not everyone might have... uh... fully simulated minds. Player Characters vs NPCs is what gamers would say, though it doesn't have to be binary like that, and the term NPC has already been ruined by social media rants. (Also, NPC is a bad insult because most of the coolest characters in games are NPC rivals or bosses or whatnot.)

I don't know how on Earth people can think like this. Most people can find "value" in a slice of pizza. It doesn't even have to be a good pizza.

Or kittens and puppies. Do you think there won't be kittens and puppies?

And that's putting aside all the obvious space-exploration stuff that will probably be more interesting than anything the previous 100 billion humans ever saw.

Sounds like aliens might crash the holidays. Traffic would be brutal.

How is pretentiousness more important?

Your phone is probably an Android or iPhone, it's funding AI research with your hard-earned money! Better smash it with a rock and eat the pieces.

Would they be ordering pizzas during a real emergency though? Sounds like a code-yellow kind of thing.

Title: "The Washington Post is dying." Then the post is about a bunch of enshittification things instead.

I'm sure it will die right after Bitcoin and Google Search and Adam Sandler movies.

Looks like generic "here's the horrible things rich people are thinking!" from a person who's never been around rich people and doesn't know any more about what they're thinking than anyone else.

Stockholders can buy their own Bitcoin whenever they feel like it, relying on a corporation to do it for them just triggers Corporate Income Tax before the normal Capital Gains Tax.

But I doubt the stockholders care about basic stuff like that.

No shit, people just use a different credit card, instead of the site pulling a game or shuttering, because these groups have no power beyond pestering Visa.

Not that anyone saying "sweet summer child" ever had anything smart to say.

"i remember seeing pay with crypto so i guess thats what you need to use in the west"

In other words you know nothing and couldn't be bothered to look it up before posting.

All the real hentai trash is on DLsite anyway. These people probably have no idea, and even if they did, they're powerless to change Japan. They'd definitely give up after encountering Kanji.

I feel like Altman is taking Elon's path. ChatGPT was his Tesla Model 3. Now he's in the overpromise/underdeliver phase, he's probably going to get himself into a "funding secured" moment soon enough, but he definitely hasn't started calling people "pedo" yet.

This is the smart take. The version numbers were useful going from GPT-3 to GPT-3.5 and then GPT-4, but after that OpenAI butchered the usefulness of the naming scheme, with stuff like o4 and 4-o. Version numbers now tell you almost nothing about the change.

This happened because training progressively larger models used to be the main path forward, which was easy to track and name, but currently it's all about quickly incorporating synthetic data chain-of-thoughts created by flash models.

"My theory is that LLMs will get commoditized within the next year."

Incredibly bad theory, it's like you're saying every LLM is the same because they can all talk, even though the newer ones continue to smash through benchmarks the older ones couldn't. And now it happens quarterly instead of yearly, so you can't even say it's slowing down.

No one is ever going to say "gpt it", regardless of OpenAI's future.

Remember when Trump accepted an endorsement from an AI Taylor Swift? That's the level of competency I'm expecting here.

Considering they both lie shamelessly, it means jack shit, as much as a 1000% tariff threat.

Games used to be fun through their gameplay mechanics and physics, rather than through their progression mechanics (legendary gear, maxed levels). Giving yourself max-stats would ruin most modern games, because the game world stops being interesting without the progression ladder.

Also, making a Nintendo-brand version of these would have been easy money, dunno why Nintendo stockholders were okay with less money.

Expectations vs Reality, life's favorite joke

You know what's funny, I almost never see people turn-around and go backwards in real life. I do it all the time when I change my mind, but other people just don't do it. It's one of those things that makes this world feel like a simulation rather than 8 billion people actually thinking for themselves.

It's just the prices. Normies here are never going to spend more to get an inferior-tasting thing. If it saves money though? Suddenly it's on their radar.