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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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New Scientist reviews the Yudkowsky/Soares book. They don't recommend it. (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

They also seem to broadly agree with the 'hey, humans are pretty shit at thinking too, you know' line of LLM apologetics.

“LLMs and humans are both sentence-producing machines, but they were shaped by different processes to do different work,” say the pair – again, I’m in full agreement.

But judging from the rest of the review I can see how you kind of have to be at least somewhat rationalist-adjacent to have a chance of actually reading the thing to the end.

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Kind of like saying that humans are car-driving machines because we drive cars.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Born to create meaning

Forced to produce sentences