Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
(cross posting here and sneer club)
I regret to inform you, another Anthropic cofounder has written an essay about Claude fondling.
"Anthropic cofounder admits he is now ādeeply afraidā ā¦ āWe are dealing with a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine ā¦ We need the courage to see things as they are.ā
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtificialInteligence/comments/1o6cow1/anthropic_cofounder_admits_he_is_now_deeply/?share_id=_x2zTYA61cuA4LnqZclvh
Thereās so many juicy chunks here.
"I came to this position uneasily. Both by virtue of my background as a journalist and my personality, Iām wired for skepticismā¦
ā¦You see, I am also deeply afraid. It would be extraordinarily arrogant to think working with a technology like this would be easy or simpleā¦
ā¦And let me remind us all that the system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed. Of course, it does not do this today. But can I rule out the possibility it will want to do this in the future? No."
Despite my jests, I gotta say, posts reeks of desperation. Benchmaxxxing just isnāt hitting like it used, bubble fears at all time high, and OAI and Google are the ones grabbing headlines with content generation and academic competition wins. The good folks at Anthropic really gotta be huffing your own farts to be believing theyāre in the race to wi-
āYears passed. The scaling laws delivered on their promise and here we are. And through these years there have been so many times when Iāve called Dario up early in the morning or late at night and said, āI am worried that you continue to be rightā. Yes, he will say. Thereās very little time now.ā
LateNightZoomCallsAtAnthropic dot pee en gee
Bonus sneer: speaking of self aware wolves, Jagoff Clark somehow managed to updoot Doomās post?? Thinking the frog was unironically endorsing his view that the server farm was going to go rogue??? Will Jack achieve self awareness in the future? Of course, he does not do this today. But can I rule out the possibility he will do this in the future? Yes.