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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
PostPosted: Mon November 20, 2023 11:50 am 
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Based on early reporting, this might have (almost) went down. AI safety/ deceleration won out over progress.




This is sounding more correct now. Unbelievably short-sighted as now they will have no control when a Meta/Google/Amazon drops $10B and swoops all the folks leaving up into a org without fedora wearing clowns holding it back.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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LOL. Also, this scene is near perfect film-making.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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It seems somehow unfair that in the year of our Lord 2023, Microsoft is one of the most promising companies on the bleeding edge of technology.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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I think this is the first I've seen of this take. How would he have compromised all the remaining board members? Only 2/4 signed the letter criticizing the boards action.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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He's back at openAI again? What a saga.

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Maybe we learned to keep "effective altruists" away from money making ventures. You'd have to be crazy to appoint either of these women to another board.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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Latest is that a company called Q* proved some level of algorithmic problem solving that suggests the existential threat of AI is closer than we’d like to think, and that Brinkman knew of the development but didn’t share it with the BOD


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Latest is that a company called Q* proved some level of algorithmic problem solving that suggests the existential threat of AI is closer than we’d like to think, and that Brinkman knew of the development but didn’t share it with the BOD



Happy final thanksgiving y’all!

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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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BurtReynolds wrote:


California's gender representation law for board members and it's consequences have been a disaster. I think they can comply if Larry Summers self IDs as trans.


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 Post subject: Re: One giant leap
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a35kp/ ... e-language

First thing they deciphered: “what do you get when a humpback mates with a sperm? your mom”

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How many RMers have downloaded this

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How many RMers have downloaded this


I want whatever spat out that tardygrade art.


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