BlueMonday1984

joined 1 year ago
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think we need another winter. All this hype is drowning out any decent research, and so all we are getting are bogus tests and experiments that are irreproducible because they’re so expensive. It’s crazy how unscientific these ‘research’ organizations are. And OpenAI is being paid by Microsoft to basically jerk-off sam Altman. It’s plain shameful.

If an AI winter does happen, I expect it'll be particularly lengthy/severe. Unlike previous AI hype cycles, this particular cycle has come with some serious negative externalities (large-scale copyright infringement, climate change/water consumption, the flood of AI slop, disinformation, etc).

Said externalities have turned the public strongly against AI, to the point where refusing to use it has become a viable marketing strategy.

You want my suspicion, any further AI research will probably be viewed with immediate distrust, at least for a while.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

Did YC seriously think because a growth hacker was in charge, you could value a private school like its an overinflated tech company?

Yes. The answer is always "yes".

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

what the heck EA forum doesn’t have a block feature? That’s just… ew.

You don't need a block feature if you're as insufferable as the average EA /j

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Awful people facing justice

You love to see it

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you really think "cult" is a useful category/descriptor here?

My view: things identified as "cults" have a bunch of good traits. EA should, where possible, adopt the good traits and reject the bad ones, and ignore whether they're associated with the label "cult" or not.

Yes, this is real

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only thing I'm holding against this guy is him buying into the AI doom, and I'm attributing that to him getting lost in the sauce regarding data science.

Everything else was this guy channeling his inner Kendrick and giving the AI bubble the beatdown it so richly deserves.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

Can they, though? Sure, in theory Google could hire millions of people to write overviews that are equally idiotic, but obviously that is not something they would actually do.

The millions of people writing overviews would definitely be more reliable, that's for sure. For one thing, they understand the concept of facts.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Going in for the first sneer, we have a guy claiming "AI super intelligence by 2027" whose thread openly compares AI to a god and gets more whacked-out from here.

Truly, this shit is just the Rapture for nerds

ChatGPT is dying Use Apple to make it die faster

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Granted, this was back when Musk's public perception was at its most positive - it would take until the Thai cave diver incident in July 2018 before we saw the first hole being blown in Musk's "IRL Tony Stark" image.

Somewhat fittingly, that incident played out on Twitter, whose acquisition by Musk has done plenty to showcase his true colours.

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