Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
I think I see a possible future here. Just as the promptfondlers are now trying to talk down human accomplishments to make the LLMs sound more impressive (āit learns just like a child!ā (no, it doesnāt)). As when you are trying to reach a deal on a car, you either need the buyer to raise the price, or the seller to lower theirs. This will lead to a lawsuit where they are going to drop down the theoretical capabilities of an AGI just to trigger this clause.
And as the judge thinks that emojiās are a form of novelty pasta, any potential jury canāt spell stattistical, there is a 50% chance that they will be convinced it is AGI because humans like the AGI also make mistakes.
Still unclear how OpenAI declaring theyāve created an AGI (and getting this adjudicated as ātrueā) and thus being released from their MSFT partnership helps OpenAI. Theyāre just lost all their compute, and will have a worse negotiating position from which to get more compute. Whatās the upside?
Yeah fair
They can sell out to someone else instead? Amazon seems to want to be an AI company, for example, and their current offering isnāt great even by the relaxed standards of LLMs.