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art/aesthetics/architecture. modernist hoaxes, “trad” kitsch: please stop.

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@kitwilsonwriter I'm sure you have a point, but now I just want to know what happened to the dentist

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@MilesDCarver @DavidSKrueger The scenario you describe strikes me as a very good example of why AI development must be paused -- things could easily go horribly wrong.

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@MilesDCarver @DavidSKrueger It seems the arrogance goes the other way...? AI companies believe they are entitled to expose all of humanity to a very real extinction risk.

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@ilex_ulmus We need to reclaim the L-word.

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@vividvoid It might appear that way, but you would have literally no way of knowing if it was actually benevolent.

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@SydneyLWatson Predation can be a big problem. You think you're just getting a few chickens (fun! fresh eggs!), but you're signing up for a dark, Darwinian struggle. The neighbour shot three coyotes over a couple weeks, wasn't happy about it.

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@anup_malani That's not what he argued. The paper is only 6 pages long, and a model of clarity, you should read it.

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@TheSimonEvans @ariaclast He wrote a useful monograph called "On Drink", full of practical advice such as how to mix drinks when you are nearly out of liquor (pour a teaspoon of gin into a glass of tonic over the back of a spoon) and how to deal with hangovers, both physical and metaphysical.

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@allgarbled all great traditions had to be invented at some point

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@runwayml please don't

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@JustineBateman "Culture" is just training data as far as they are concerned.

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@elonmusk please don't

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@cremieuxrecueil The counterarguments are likely just rationalizations of an ick response. Personally am unwilling to ignore the ick.

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@vividvoid @pli_cachete I'm surprised at how nettled people are at this guy's choices. It may be he found the life voluptuously pleasurable and profoundly meaningful. That seems to upset people who find meaning in doing things, in being smart, in worldly success.

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@gmiller @Sargon_of_Akkad Aesthetics are a reliable proxy for functionality. As they say in aeronautical circles, if it looks good, it *is* good.

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@DavidSacks This is a very typical example of a widespread fallacy among people who consider themselves reasonable and thoughtful and informed. "Existing models are safe, therefore we should continue to develop possibly dangerous models." It is not worth the fucking risk.

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@fidjissimo What extinction risk are you willing to tolerate to realize this vision?

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“Sir Conrad thought that politics should be transacted lightly, by clever men, and not ponderously, by stupid ones.” –from “The Blessing” by Nancy Mitford

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This may make things awkward at work.

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Have been looking for a way to describe my stance with respect to AI (skeptic, doomer, worrywart, -phobe), have decided on “AI conscientious objector”.