The HN thread quickly devolves into 'tech is great' and 'this is the next revolution', and im again amazed at our collective inability to learn things. Even if LLM does great things, redesigning all your workflows/etc around a company which you could and will change the cost and terms of service on a whim is a bad idea. Even more so in the era where there is no more almost zero money lending. Good luck when the LLM shit enshittifies so much that you will need to divest from it and all your programmers can't code without it (and stackexchange is also gone).
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JFC I avoid AGI boosters mostly so I'm always aghast when I'm reminded of what they believe. HN commenter says (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40365850) AGI will bring:
Solve CO2 Levels
End sickness/death
Enhance cognition by integrating with willing minds.
Safe and efficient interplanetary travel.
End of violent conflicts
Fair yet liberal resource allocation (if still needed), "from scarcity to abundance"
And we can do all of that by just scaling up autocomplete which is basically already AGI (if you squint).
How come the goal posts for AGI are always the best of what people can do?
I can't diagnose anyone, yet I have GI.
But it shouldn't surprise me that their benchmark of intelligence is basically that something can put together somewhat coherent sounding technobabble while being unable to do something my five year-old kindergartner can.
Yup, basically AGI.
This is my favorite thing to do.
Reasons are unclear (as usual when safety people leave OpenAI).
no, you fucking dipshit. the reason is crystal clear. he was on the team that attempted to oust sammyboi, and was on borrowed time from the moment it failed
jfc how are these people this clueless
Cade Metz was the NYT journalist who doxxed Scott Alexander
"bro if you just keep saying it it'll become true. trust me bro I've done it hundreds of times bro"
Also all the weirdness re Metz comes from not understanding how media like that works (A thing which iirc is warned for in the sequences of all things) and N=1. All these advanced complex ideas rushing around in their mind, talk of being aware of your own bias, bayes, bla bla defeated by an N=1 perceived anti-grey tribe event.
Also lol how much they fall back into talking like robots when talking about this event:
Enforcing social norms to prevent scapegoating also destroys information that is valuable for accurate credit assignment and causally modelling reality.
grr outgroup, outgroup bad