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Comment · 2 months ago
this guy f3s
Comment · 4 months ago
The levels of irony here are peaking.

- slop article that itself feels AI generated;

- using a movie quote, like, from an actor and script and stuff;

- a quote that itself is super smug and on the nose;

- saying something so self evident even an AI wouldn't assume;

- to fight the powah of llm's overtaking the slop article field;

An LLM itself doesn't personally come to you to ruin you, and pretend that it is superior to you or knows you. Unless, it is wired to do that. Unless it is used by some other unique snowflake to ruin. Freaking deepseek will always remind you that it's a box without a lived experience or feelings. If your box assumes a personhood, look not at it, but at the guy who sells it.

Comment · 4 months ago
"How to protect AI"

LOL humanity is fucking done.

Comment · 4 months ago
human attention is all you need
Comment · 4 months ago
Damn that goalposting issue is so easy to solve! See:

- make another bullshit benchmark and name it "humanity's last humanlike intelligence benchmark" and overfit to it;

- make rich talkinghead twit about it p r o f o u n d l y, ask for more money and remind people of china;

- remove last remaining percentage of truth from all communication about ai (this is the real bug breaking the system);

Solved this problem for you on under 20W of processing power!

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Personally: not only is "blind/disabled 12 year olds" categorically intelligent compared to llm, perhaps even a Labroides dimidiatus is, check (retain skepticism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_aNH4hXz8I. Capabilities of these organisms are beyond llm. I don't care that your machine jumps much higher than a person - because it's pointless no matter how marvellous of an engineering it is, ESPECIALLY when you say that it therefore has surpassed people entirely; and then use that to extract the last crumb of resource from everyone... It is a compounding issue. Same way I don't care that it can approximately and unpredictably recall or not recall the web before 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDS-iSueBQ4.

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If ai lovers started telling the truth about capabilities, goalposts of these capabilities would not move - because they would be accurately defined and measured. Instead, they use the fuzziness of language to their advantage - a big part of the betrayal of language that is happening...

And you know I am right, since - your favorite larger than life AI "told" me so ;)))

EDIT: GRAMMER

Comment · 4 months ago
Absolutely. "non-Cliffordness" by consturction already implies "Cliffordness", which by construction implies "Clifford" and then connects other related things. Magic doesn't do that exactly, but instead slips unnecessary connections. Clifford as a name relates to a matematician who was probably dead by the time anyway. It is considerably more neutral as a name and "free" of unrelated context. I am not knowledgeable about it, but I also wouldn't be suprised if Clifford works are also related to mathematical facilities in quantum theories where the name is invoked.

When trying to understand the reality and then convey that understanding, "mouthfulness" seems like not a concern at all.

Comment · 4 months ago
Should call the next big physics thing doubtscumbagium...
Comment · 5 months ago
Essence of gacha games is predatory monetisation realised via fomo, drip feeding and sex - not numbers.
Comment · 5 months ago
The point of all of that is to become god, straight up unironically.
Comment · 5 months ago
Births is, sans miscalculation, a number that tracks exact events.

Is the "capability" number on these LLM strengh graphs as tangible?

I think it would be interesting to visit a reality that obeys arbitrary abstractions, but I would personally never go there.

Comment · 5 months ago
> It's not just impactful, it's consequential
Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah but well you see, humans did not go extinct from just asbestos!
Comment · 6 months ago
Unfathomable incident: arbitrary entity misusing its arbitrarily assigned unilateral power, following perverted incentives.
Comment · 6 months ago
But then he wouldn't have a justification for AI companies to rob people! And you are suggesting robbing himself of this justification!

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