Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

No way his OpenAI position ends up on his resume.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

This is gonna be really helpful next time someone tells me straight up that EA and Rationalist are totally different things and just overlap by coincidence.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago

I spent way too much time arguing that NYT didn't dox Slatescott.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Getting Gebru in there would be fucking hilarious, I can't believe Wired asked her. Not loving that they're conflating her with EAs though.

If you want to annoy an AI doomer ask why they don't support Gebru.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

GitHub doesn't need to take away the GPL, it's got Copilot to launder any code you like.

It is very weird to see a generation of people too young to remember Vista grow up and not heed the warnings. But I think that it's also a case of kids getting into it via Paul Graham and wanting to start companies instead of getting into it via Stallman and having computers instead of friends.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:

Couldn't a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they've founded thousands of hospitals and such. They're very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Every time I hear the name "Richard Hanania" it's in the context of this type of thing or worse. What's his deal?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don’t realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.

I think that's why they're so afraid of them. They think that paperclip optimizer is the default outcome for an intelligence because it's the outcome they're pushing themselves towards.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crypto is going to dry up as a beat eventually, so I'm glad she's laying the groundwork for a next move.

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