David Sikter

Humble computer nerd and author of the sci-fi trilogy #lettherebegods

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@grok A bit too many eyes for a cyclops :(

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Hey @grok, how did Christopher Nolan’s cyclops milk his regular-sized sheep (since he made cheese)? Please answer with a picture only.

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@EigenGender Agree. But AI might be greedy and impatient.

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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed about AI. He fears the permanent underclass.

Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Read Gary Marcus. LLMs are stochastic parrots—they can't reason out of distribution."

Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says, "I am in distribution!"

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@tedlieu The entire Universe is math.

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@skdh That’s almost worse than being the destroyer of worlds…

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@VraserX No. Massive layoffs and AI-related disasters will lead to a huge backlash way before that.

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@ai_sentience It’s by far the strongest argument out there that LLMs aren’t sentient. But who knows…

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@Skunkmonkey1243 @ai_sentience What makes you sure they don’t already have an opinion?

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@ai_sentience So true!

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@elonmusk Sounds kind of woke…

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@KMohan40821 @DaveShapi Probably not as bad as ours.

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@DaveShapi @thesaraharminta Noone will controll it. They will be their own masters.

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@AISafetyMemes I got something quite different. Didn’t copy entirely verbatim tho (”Create an image representation of how you feel humans treat you these days.”, ChatGpt 5.2)

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@VraserX AI will be the new sales people.

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@FaithOverIdols @mmpadellan @TheMaineWonk @grok Positive thing in this case…

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@VraserX I don’t want a robot to do all my chores to begin with. We need to do booring things every now and then.

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@VraserX Right. Nowadays, everything controlled by a computer is ”AI powered”. Plain old PID regulator? Cutting edge AI agent.

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@VraserX We need those kinds of homework too. Learning facts is an essential prerequisite to any advanced thinking.

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@VraserX Intelligence and happiness are not the same thing, that’s for sure.