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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.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Roko: the Animatrix demonstrates why we must destroy the chip fabs (www.lesswrong.com)
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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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The average person concerned with existential risk from AGI might assume "safety" means working to reduce the likelihood that we all die. They would be disheartened to learn that many "AI Safety" researchers are instead focused on making sure contemporary LLMs behave appropriately.

"average person" is doing a lot of work here. I suspect the vast amount of truly "average people" are in fact concerned that LLMs will reproduce Nazi swill at an exponential scale more than that they may actually be Robot Hitler.

Turns out if you spend all your time navelgazing and inventing your own terms, the real world will ignore you and use terms people outside your bubble use.

[–] hungryjoe@functional.cafe 13 points 11 months ago

@gerikson @dgerard "average person concerned with existential risk from AGI" is a contradiction in terms

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

What is to "behave appropriately" if not actively causing the death of everyone anyway?