we have finally achieved A Guy in India

This is why you should never allow the use of the marketing term "AI", and instead always refer to the specific technologies.

The use case for the term "AI" is to conflate things that work (ML) with things that don't work (LLMs).

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately walking around outside talking to GPT-4o

and it loves me very much, I just need to send it money for its ticket over via western union

no, i am apparently the Final Boss of rationalism, so yeah we are Satan actually

don't forget the ones outraged they can't use the Daily Mail or the Sun as sources

Prompt injection for actual fun and profit

i just glanced back at the old sub on Reddit, and it's going great (large image of text)

i concur that rationalist "niceness" is paper thin

repeatedly pointing out that they are the other ten guys at the table breaking bread with literal fucking Nazis worked well to get rid of the TPOT smol bean uwu race scientists on Bluesky, even after they had been personally invited there by Bsky's founders

Torres has written about that hit piece! It's the only article on that substack, "Mark Fuentes" doesn't appear to exist, the material was partially published under another name first, the material ultimately originated in the EA forums, and the article is a favourite of EA attempted astroturfers.

anyway, that's the quality of article that titotal just happens to reach for first

he's just using it as an example of a supposedly well-written and convincing article about Torres you understand, and just happened to pick an odious lump of slander that originated in that very forum

ACAB and abolish prisons, but we can leave finance cops and SBF until quite late in the process

come the fabulous gay luxury space communism future, when scarcity itself becomes all but obsolete, we will absolutely have to make it clear that, at the mind-buggeringly long and rambling cadre meetings discussing the disbursement of the few items that remain restricted, Sam's opinion is not invited

or that the existing AI works. Some of the worst social damage is from AI systems deployed in the wild that don't even do their fucking job properly in the first place, let alone doing it evilly. (Many deployments are both evil and incompetent.)

i have long considered Jacobin the Christian rock of socialism