I hadn’t put it together before but it completely makes sense that singularity believers would easily fall for AI hype.
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yeah, iirc the first step to singularity or at least what causes it is an ASI so we have this community of dweebs thinking that that'll solve everything and not, like, communism, which probably won't solve everything but certainly more than whatever the fuck llms are doing.
It's incredible watching them slowly realise that they bet their hopes for utopia on a slightly more annoying customer service chatbot.
As someone who once was a transhumanist (back when there were still Socialists in the community) I almost feel bad for them. Almost. A lot of them are young and haven't yet realised that hope from tech alone is always, always hollow. What they do with that knowledge...well...I got better, but I was always communist.
OAI staggering releases to make GPT-4 look like it was faster than it actually was was a genius marketing move but they haven't done anything interesting for near two years now.
Tbf, at least tech is real and observable so putting hope in science is better than putting it in fairytales forced on western civilization through extreme violence by the Roman Empire and other means of settler colonialism.
i mean theyre cultists so
the leap from 'cute statistics engine that is basically an elaborate and flawed google search' to 'thinking robot girlfriend that worships me' is huge and they keep acting like its trivial
Their idiot eschatology community has now reached the development level of having false prophets. What exciting places will they go from here?
Someone needs to be sacrificed
strawberry man used the hype by pretending to be an insider and making claims that strawberry is coming very soon and will completely change everything
Lol people still fall for the “my dad works for nintendo” bit when no other independent source can verify the claim?
Lol people still fall for the “my dad works for nintendo” bit when no other independent source can verify the claim?
It is just as embarrassing as the people who buy into "insider political leaks." Unnamed, unverifiable sources are almost always fabricated
Not necessarily. Often it’s coming from a real source, it’s that if the source was known it’d be blatantly obvious the “leak” isn’t juicy truths TPTB are trying to keep from us but rather blatant propaganda from TPTB are pushing to manufacture consent.
I don't follow. Half-truths are lies in my book so it sounds like we agree that those claims are largely fabrications aimed to stir up drama (increase engagement) or deceive us (manufacture consent)
Either way, it shouldn't be legal for any journalist to try to pass off unverifiable gossip as legitimate News.
I interpreted your original comment to mean “the journalist made up the leak.” I’m guessing from your response that you meant the insider source pulled it out of their ass.
I think it is a mix of both. Insiders exaggerating or making stuff up and journalists also exaggerating or straight up lying about having a source when they don't.
Depends on the nature of political leaks. A lot are deliberately leaked to control the narrative. For example, leaks about Biden “being furious” with Netanyahu is just to appeal to west wing brained liberals. Or how “anonymous sources revealed” to MSM that “Ukrainians” were behind the Nordstream bombing. In the latter case, they admit it was sabotage, but want a different narrative around it.
Does anyone truly believe that Ukraine destroyed NS2 on their own? Biden told the whole world he was going to "bring and end to it" if Russia invaded Ukraine and that is exactly what he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8&t=90 "How will you stop NS2, it belongs to Germany?" "I promise you we WILL do it"
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I can't be the only person who has never heard of strawberry man before this, and still have no idea what happened after reading that thread.
Yeah I missed this entirely
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Missed this saga, what was the hype about? Grok2?
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