JZW link but meat is a 404 article, don’t wanna bypass their paywall

Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers […]

Eminently punchable face

I got it from a comment here, apparently some pie in the sky charity needs more money

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HL7zzZhCR59CCntpB/allfed-emergency-appeal-help-us-raise-usd800-000-to-avoid

His name is Scott.

Oldie but goldie LW:

Who should we prioritize saving from a global catastrophe. Obviously AI safety researchers

not every programmer posts to social media…

Not sure why anyone thought CS as a community can “save us”. It’s just as likely to be red/black-pilled (gold/black-pilled?) as any other heavily male tech adjacent community. The idea that nerds should be politically liberal because they were bullied in 80 high-school comedies is ludicrous.

“The Grok integration with X has made everyone jealous,” says someone working at another big AI lab. “Especially how people create viral tweets by getting it to say something stupid.”

AGI is just around the corner guys

The fact this commenter doesn’t mention the absolute fuckton of machining videos on Youtube tells me they’re just talking out of their ass.

(not that forcing those into LLM slop would help but a hypothetical AGI would learn a lot)

Also

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently worried about a world where only 30% of jobs become automated, leading to class tensions between the automated and non-automated. Instead, he predicts that nearly all jobs will be automated simultaneously, putting everyone “in the same boat.”

Dario is delusional. We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

LessWronger puts in the work and determines that LLMs can’t spacially vizualize for shit, comments are like “well you’re prompting it wrong” (paraphrased) as well as “why not pay experiences machinists to videotape what they’re doing os their work can be automated”

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r3NeiHAEWyToers4F/frontier-ai-models-still-fail-at-basic-physical-tasks-a#comments

The article itself is worth reading for some insights in the challenges of using current “AI” (LLMs) to work in the real world.

“We convinced the dumbest people in the country that our made-up problems were real, and now we have a sad because they took us seriously.”

so following this “logic”, the problem for the “Deutsch” is that there is no flavor of Jews willing to “align” with them?

Whose fault is that, motherfuckers?

Like everything Yud it’s always dumber than you think.

Interesting that the artist/LLM rendered his physique in a manly, superhero style but kept (or inserted) a lazy eye.

Someone more versed in Japanese will have to translate the SFX for me. I don’t think it’s an eager heartbeat but it would be fun if it was .

I found it too, it makes the point that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong in attcking other countries, stealing their products, and enslaving their people" is an argument Putin could have made.

ironically many “WW2 enjoyers” are big fans of German hardware, uniforms and tactics…

Tired: AI

Wired (and delicious): A1

To (mis)quote one of my favorite bands

Meat’s just meat it’s all born dying
Some is tender some is tough
Somebody’s gotta mop up the AI
Somebody’s gotta mop up the blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTPQPwDM_A

“I no longer believe that effective altruism and democracy are compatible”.

Anywhoo, did not know the scaling of voting power to karma before. Interesting.

At the start they state

The disappointment of imminent death is all the more crushing because just a few years ago researchers announced breakthrough discoveries that suggested [existing, adult] humans could have healthspans of thousands of years. To drop the analogy, here I’m talking about my transhumanist beliefs. The laws of physics don’t demand that humans slowly decay and die at eighty. It is within our engineering prowess to defeat death, and until recently I thought we might just do that, and I and my loved ones would live for millennia, becoming post-human superbeings.

This is, frankly, bonkers. I’d rate the following in descending order of probability

1. worldwide societal collapse due to climate change
2. we develop an AI that will kill us all for unspecified reasons
3. we establish viable self-sustaining societies outside the limits of Earth
4. we develop techniques that allow everyone to live effectively forever

If the first happens, it removes the material requirements for the latter things to happen. This is an extreme form of “denial of the flesh”, the inability to realize that without food or water no-one will be working on AI or life extension tech.