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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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They train on sneer-problems now:

Here’s the “ferry‑shuttle” strategy, exactly analogous to the classic two‑ferryman/many‑boats puzzle, but with planes and pilots

And lo and behold, singularity - it can solve variants that no human can solve:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68813f81-1e6c-8004-ab95-5bafc531a969

Two ferrymen and three boats are on the left bank of a river. Each boat holds exactly one man. How can they get both men and all three boats to the right bank?

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Two ferrymen and three boats are on the left bank of a river. Each boat holds exactly one man. How can they get both men and all three boats to the right bank?

Officially, you can't. Unofficially, just have one of the ferrymen tow a boat.

[–] diz@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Yeah that's the version of the problem that chatgpt itself produced, with no towing etc.

I just find it funny that they would train on some sneer problem like this, to the point of making their chatbot look even more stupid. A "300 billion dollar" business, reacting to being made fun of by a very small number of people.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some insufferable dipshit that gets paid $10,000 bucks a week spent one of those weeks working on this.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they had a meeting about it, the meeting lasted an hour and had 8 people, and they collectively earned $1 million in that time

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Gonna be really fucked if we finally discover that the people doing the actual work were true believers who didnt even get paid well. And all the money went to altman/infrastructure costs. (I could look in financial statements to figure stuff like this out but erug effort).

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