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[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.

Hmm, is it better or worse that they're now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, is it better or worse that they’re now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

I'm gonna say "worse", because it turned the SCP writers into unwitting accomplices to a literal cult.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I should have seen this coming. I mean people literally call this 'The Wizard Book'