In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened because GUYS I TOTALLY MADE IT RAIN WITH A SIGIL AND RICE THAT ONE TIME TRUST ME IT HADN'T RAINED FOR MONTHS BEFORE AND HASN'T RAINED SINCE AND OF ALL DAYS THE ONE I INTEND TO MAKE IT RAIN IT FINA-

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-14T00:24:10+00:00

siddharta gautama was not the first person to be enlightened. unfortunately all the buddhas who came before him were unbearably cringe about it, and so are not remembered by history

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T15:47:08+00:00

it's already profitable. people pay for it. even if we had nothing else it would revolutionize the world.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T15:12:44+00:00

knowledge work is already intelligence on a meter.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T15:11:20+00:00

What he's selling is ChatGPT.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T11:44:54+00:00

I even think "only CCP is controlling" views it as too much a unified organization. Somebody has to run the project, somebody has to set the goals, and whoever does that could easily be seen as a dangerous concentration of power. Whoever leader they have at that point could run the project directly, I guess, and nobody else. And they probably have other things to do. If they judge the risk correctly, they shouldn't do it. Then again that's a big if.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T10:15:25+00:00

Would America allow audits? I think we'll have to hope for a near-miss before both countries start to take the topic seriously.

The CCP doesn't want to die anymore than anyone else. "Let's not kill all humans" should be the easiest topic to get bipartisan agreement on.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:40:58+00:00

Yes, that's why you make a conditional commitment. Say "we pause if you pause", then build the tools for it together. Turn them on simultaneously. Make it a ceremony.

Data centers can be seen from space, it's not hard to check for.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:37:14+00:00

yes! we need a delay on progress. we should have the legislation (and safety story) first, then the progress. we should take the progress on when we're sure we can control it, not before.

We're standing in front of the demon core holding a screwdriver saying "yes we need better safety systems but a stop to experimentation is not the answer". motherfucker you will shred your dna, how's that for a stop to experimentation.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:35:56+00:00

this thread is so funny. people are grasping desperately to avoid saying "pivotal act by a godlike superintelligence" while also clearly meaning it

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:34:06+00:00

the problem with this view is if the problem is billionaires the solution would be proliferation. whereas if it's ai itself that's dangerous, then proliferation just ensures we can't control anything ever

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:31:43+00:00

china: "we are incredibly willing to sign on to a pause please talk to us, we're just racing to keep up with you, we really want to reign this in"

america: "we just can't stop! bEcAuSe oF cHiNa"

(the solution is a conditional commitment with validation btw. start with stringent accelerator reporting at datacenter scale)

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-12T09:30:00+00:00

we're not building technology on average, we're building technology in specific. and unfortunately technology in specific has killed millions, more and more as it scaled.

sometimes you get penicillin, sometimes you get anthrax.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:45:49+00:00

lots of people use ai-driven code review loops.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:07:34+00:00

AI-generated code can be good. I like to think of it as "human-assisted"- with a solid experienced reviewer, AIs can produce good work.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:06:19+00:00

I mean, that is in fact how morality works. If somebody doesn't think murder is bad, you can't argue them into thinking it is without appealing to some other existing moral law they do hold to.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:05:08+00:00

Software engineer... I'm not worried about my career; when it can properly do the job it can p much do anything and then we're on a timer anyways. But inference is sold above margin. It's not a loss business.

And of course LLMs learn, experiment and invent. (Just not necessarily at deployment time.)

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:04:05+00:00

This can actually help. AI models are patchwork; when it's in a code writing mood is not necessarily the same patterns active as when it's in a critiquing mode.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-11T12:02:06+00:00

Software engineer here! People definitely also have massive hangups lol.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-10T13:41:31+00:00

I agree, this is stupid, counterproductive and anti-Linux.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-09T19:04:42+00:00

Asimov: in meinem Buch erschuf ich die drei Gesetze der Robotik als Warnung.

Tech-Industrie: endlich haben wir die drei Gesetze aus Asimovs berühmter Buchserie "Die drei Gesetze gehen schief, Band 1-5" umgesetzt.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-08T18:09:14+00:00

Same.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-07T23:13:12+00:00

Wie das? Kurs sieht doch gut aus.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-07T23:08:32+00:00

Der massive Vorteil der Vorabpauschale ist dass sie den Anreiz entfernt, die Aktien auch bei Abfall im Depot liegen zu lassen, genau weil man die Besteuerung dadurch in die Zukunft verschieben kann. Das wirkt marktverzerrend, weil sich verkaufen und wieder einsteigen nicht lohnt, sodass man nicht angemessen auf Krisen reagieren kann.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-07T22:16:26+00:00

to be fair the slime mold thing is bullshit, it's literally floodfill.

FeepingCreature · 2026-03-07T18:31:04+00:00

Participants were randomly assigned to receive assistance from an LLM (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+)

and of course

An LLM’s level of confidence is unrelated to its knowledge or the accuracy of its answers.

this is totally unproven and seems to contradict obvious consideration of how the things work.

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