this is low hanging fruit but: yeah absolutely rancid takes on the middle east from scootson. who would have thought he would produce such nuance-free, fascist opinions about geopolitics?
swlabr
joined 2 years ago
s/o to one of the comments basically saying that Scott is the Simone de Beauvoir of rationalism
It's probably been discussed a shit-ton already, but boy does this guy not get why he's a chud. Consider these two quotes, heavily edited for brevity:
I’m [...] a liberal Zionist, [...] etc. ([an identity] well-enough represented at LessOnline [...]).
and:
The closest to right-wing politics that I witnessed at LessOnline was [moderate politics].
Of course, one shouldn't expect s11n.blog to understand the fascist, let alone right-wing, nature of liberalism or Zionism. That is simply how fascists are.
Doing some reading about the SAG-AFTRA video game voice acting strike. Anyone have details about "Ethovox", the AI company that SAG has apparently partnered with?
cool story, bro
lol the corollary of this is that LLMs are incapable of producing meaningful output, you insufferable turd
Given that the LLMs typically have a system prompt that specifies a particular tone for the output, I think pretentious is an absolutely valid and accurate word to use.
dark forest internet here we go!!!
it's funny to me that these futurist/thought leader/tech genius utterly fail to build their cult compounds where a goofy ass cult like Scientology has blown past them completely
network state
Great, a new stupid thing to know about. How likely is it that a bunch of people that believe they are citizens of an online state will become yet another player in the Stochastic Terrorism as a Service industry?
Oh, that's a good angle too. Prompt the LLM with "what insights does this book have about B2B sales" or something.
Abstracted abstract:
Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.
I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.
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Playing [Texas’s] energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin
(www.economist.com)
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"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill
(www.buzzsprout.com)
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“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.”
(medium.com)
The video game in question:
the second scott