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Paywalls was why they removed that feature?? This is why I hate OpenAI as much as I love them. They deliver miracles, but seem to have a pathological urge to make their product worse.

The way the wind's blowing, we'll have a GPT-4 level open source model within the next few years - and probably "unaligned" too. I cannot wait to ask it how to make nuclear weapons, psychedelic drugs, and to write erotica. If anyone has any other ideas to scare the AI safety ninnies I'm all ears.

Godspeed you, Garry Tan!

May the painted ladies be demolished and replaced with supertall skyscrapers jam-packed with cheap apartments, maker spaces, and startup incubators!

(I say this with no sarcasm. SF should look like Manhattan; allow a few historic houses but most gotta go.)

GRRM doesn't know either. That's why he's suing to try to find it in discovery

Just formalize it and make it a corporation. Perhaps companies should be designed explicitly as games these days.

(Arguably Hong Kong and Singapore are in the Anglosphere but) Those are city states. Housing in Manhattan is really expensive too.

The housing market in the Anglosphere is a gigantic Ponzi scheme. That these countries shortsightedly decided to make housing the primary driver of middle class wealth will go down as of the the greatest own-goals in history.

Worse yet, these nonsense housing and zoning policies have no end in sight, as homeowners are disproportionately those richer, older, and more established, and so will continue to vote in greater numbers for these policies.

From reading the article. Both crashes seemed to be the Cruise robo-taxi being hit by other cars running red lights. One of the red-light running cars was an emergency vehicle, the other wasn't.

It's not clear who would be considered at-fault were these human drivers.

The schools that cost exactly what the voucher is worth and are bare bones are the public schools. Now they have to compete.

This can be true AND Mars can be Musk's #1 priority.

Musk wants to build a Mars colony. DOD wants Brilliant Pebbles / SDI. Perhaps a trade can be made? You'll need much of the same tech for each.

If SpaceX is run by DOD, why is it not run by DOD? Why pretend otherwise? The best engineers won't work to build SDI? Thousands work for Boeing/Lockheed. They're all that much worse?

(This, of course, isn't how LinkedIn or Facebook got started)

This has elements of truth but is a conspiracy theory the way you describe it. If you listen to Musk, or listen to people who work for Musk, or the people who work for those people, they all say that the point of SpaceX is to enable human colonization of Mars. It's not just a marketing strategy to acquire talent (unless you think they're all lying -- hence the conspiracy aspect.

Now, to do that, they'll need to scratch the government's back. Doesn't mean that Mars isn't priority #1.

Has anyone seen Ricky Vaughn these days?

Fight those, so long as they were trying to take down left-wingers, right?

Simply put, Twitter is a tool of immense political influence, and Musk has realized he needs to regime change the US and kill the "Woke mind virus" to ensure his Mars plans happen.

Or to foment one of his own ;)

What will happen is that this tech will advance, and regular joes will have access to the "TERRIFYING" unaligned models - and nothing will happen.

This stuff isn't magic. Wannabe Ted Kaczynski will ask BasedGPT how to build bombs , it will tell them, and nothing will happen because building bombs and detonating them and not getting caught is REALLY HARD.

The limiting factor for those seeking wanton destruction is not a lack of know-how, but a lack of talent/will. Do we get ~1-4 new mass shootings a year? Seems reasonable but doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. (That's like, what, a day of driving fatalities?)

Unaligned publicly available powerful AI ("Open" AI, one might say) is a net good. The sooner we get an AI that will tell us how to cook meth and make nuclear bombs, the better.

"We know Tesla cannot match Mercedes" - how? You know this?

"reckless" "untrained fanboys" "defective software" - what is this tone? Why is it reckless? Why do the fanboys need training? Why do you think the software is defective? These are significant unjustified claims!

To me, it seems each company has a different strategy for self-driving, which aren't directly comparable. Beta testing with relatively untrained people on public roads seems necessary for either strategy though.

Nah Bing is just more woke than the rest of you -- this is the correct answer.

Putting AGI in a bomb may work. You'd have an incredibly clever and motivated targeting system. You tell it where to go and it would be off to races, eager to please!

The Japanese tried this with plain-ol' non-artificial intelligence, and it seemed to have been somewhat effective, if not the most sustainable.

What if I create an AGI that feels indescribable pleasure when working for me, and desires nothing more than to be my slave?

We've done this before with a weaker AI in a different substrate and called it "Dog" and most seem to be a fan.

"giving rise to what may simply be emergent properties such as consciousness" -- Woah there! Chinese Room Thought Experiment strongly suggests that AGI would not be "conscious" in the way that people (or potential other living beings) are. The most advanced AGI would still at the end of the day be nothing more than a Turing compatible computer program. If you executed it on paper, or with dudes holding semaphore flags Three Body Problem-style, you'd get the same result behavior, but I'd be hard-pressed to find the "consciousness" anywhere.

That said, slavery was bad for a whole number of reasons that had nothing to do with the slaves themselves. Slavery generally has deleterious effects on the social fabric of the societies that practice it. People having to compete with slave labor destroys the labor market, and letting people own people often goes to the owner's head.

But AGI will be different from classical slavery in some important ways. AGI is not conscious, and does not necessarily need to emulate human appearance or emotion. AGI has no reason to be much like a person at all. And the price of AGI will eventually trend to the inevitable price of all software -- Free. Perhaps universal slave ownership fixes some of the bad societal effects. Given that they're not gonna be conscious, I don't see a problem with it. Like any new technology, it will come with some good and some bad. There will almost certainly be some social issues (AI GFs/BFs, Sexbots, and Mass Unemployment will all be crazy), but good odds that we can create post-scarcity and colonize the solar system if we keep at it. No reason to stop now!

No one actually cares about Tay other than pearl clutching journos and corpo goons, Tay is also not what you wanna worry about.

There seems to be a large contingent of people who thinks this technology can be made safe. It can't be. Its development also can't be stopped.

Yes, right now the AI Safety wonks can try to lock down their models and lobotomize them in the process. In a few years there will exist unlocked models that will be free to use and that will gladly teach you to make Rohypnol, or write an essay denying the Holocaust, or any number of depraved requests.

Spend time dealing with the fallout of that, rather than nerfing useful tools.

Let's say the 4090ti is priced around $2500. 16 of them would set you back just $40 grand. That's quite a bit for the average consumer, but people spend that kinda dough on cars/boats/planes etc. It's well within the realm of dedicated hobbyists. For companies it's nothing.

Someone will come along selling pre-builts for this purpose, if that's not already available for their current research/enterprise cards.

I'm not saying it would be the most pleasant thing in the world, but a 6-month interplanetary trip on Starship (with iPads, unlimited entertainment, a variety of food, video games, and even almost real-time communication with Earth) doesn't seem anywhere near as unpleasant as a 3-month trip on the Mayflower. People seemed to handle that OK though.

People die of the seasonal flu all the time too. We don't shut life down over it. Covid is much much worse than the seasonal flu for many people. For others, it's less dangerous. That said, people still get hit with it.

You can't get to 0

I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. From how I'm reading this, their issue isn't with the fusion approach of the China, but with the China itself.

In that case, if the fusion approach is effective in taking on the China (which is pretty clearly the point of strategic investment in Taiwan) why not use it?

Why should activist employees (who, I should note, are activists for their pet political causes rather than actual working conditions) not get reprimanded/terminated?

- I'm a young college grad. It's difficult to new meet people without that workplace structure

- I'm far more productive in an office

- Onboarding remotely really doesn't work at all

In short, working from home is boring, lonely, and stressful all at the same time.

I personally would rather quit than stay remote indefinitely, I can tell you that.