@tenobrus@gworley3 OpenAI should be absolutely excoriated for their response to the initial discovery of the compromised sandbox and message board. If this were a regulated industry you’d expect to no longer be allowed to market products if that type of behavior was discovered during an audit.
@CkLorentzen@krishnanrohit Labor is incredibly sticky and can absorb massive amounts of increase in productivity without any resultant change in headcount.
@ESYudkowsky The analogy doesn’t accurately map to the central thesis of Bostrom’s paper, that rational calculus needs to consider both risks and benefits. An asteroid impact as choice of metaphor simply dodges the point of the thought exercise.
“Good evening, and welcome to Milano Cortina! I’m Dave Kessler alongside two-time gold medalist Anja Berglund, and tonight, folks, we are in for a treat.”
“That’s right, Dave. The conditions on the Sliding Center track are absolutely pristine. Minus four Celsius, a light...
“…The last thing he saw before he closed his eyes was snow beginning to fall, each flake catching the streetlight as it descended, like static on a television tuned to a dead channel…”
The bus lurched forward, and Jack pressed himself deeper into the corner of the back seat, his knees drawn up against the vinyl. Outside the window, terraced houses slid past in grey procession. Inside his earbuds, nothing played. He just liked the barrier they created...
@Heritage To the low-level heritage staffers in charge of reading the comments: please realize that your organization has become the mouthpiece of a movement focused exclusively on bigotry and xenophobia. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
...The young sun had barely found its rhythm when the disk of dust and gas began its slow collapse, and Terra coalesced from that chaos like a thought forming in a dreaming mind...
Let's say you want to travel to our nearest solar neighbor. How fast would you need to go before you'd really become chronologically misaligned? It's mostly at speeds above 0.99c.
...“I’m not telling you to give up. I’m telling you to be realistic about what the world looks like now. Your generation is going to carry weight that isn’t yours. That’s what it means to be born in a time of correction.”
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