I assume that's more because they lifted zootopia's art style wholesale and so that's just how rabbits are now.
It's not so much he fails the purity test than it is he thinks all gen-ai works like whisper on a laptop and open source LLMs grow on trees.
edit: and also that big company engineers are aware of the limitations and are encouraged to be discreet in using them, like what
CEV is what he would want if he were wiser and less confused
Isn't that just steelmanning?
I gathered the "idealized version of myself" was because it's supposed to be applied to a superintelligence, because of course it's an alignment thing.
I checked it out because I was curious if CEV was some international relations initialism I'd never heard of, turns out its just My Guess About What He Wants in rationalese.
Excerpt from the definition of Coherent Extrapolated Volition, or how to damage your optical nerve from too much eye rolling:
Extrapolated volition is the metaethical theory that when we ask "What is right?", then insofar as we're asking something meaningful, we're asking "What would a counterfactual idealized version of myself want* if it knew all the facts, had considered all the arguments, and had perfect self-knowledge and self-control?" (As a metaethical theory, this would make "What is right?" a mixed logical and empirical question, a function over possible states of the world.)
A very simple example of extrapolated volition might be to consider somebody who asks you to bring them orange juice from the refrigerator. You open the refrigerator and see no orange juice, but there's lemonade. You imagine that your friend would want you to bring them lemonade if they knew everything you knew about the refrigerator, so you bring them lemonade instead. On an abstract level, we can say that you "extrapolated" your friend's "volition", in other words, you took your model of their mind and decision process, or your model of their "volition", and you imagined a counterfactual version of their mind that had better information about the contents of your refrigerator, thereby "extrapolating" this volition.
Richard Lynn was right
Ah yes, the everyone in the continent of Africa and parts of Asia is secretly heavily developmentally disabled, my friend Cremieux who's definitely a highly accredited biologistician and not a college drop out who's also a nazi thinks this as well post.
Re the incel stuff I think the regulars grew older so it doesn't come up as much outside the comments, which remain a safe space for this type of whining.
It's not really extricable from the eugenics iinspired bioessentialism that's encouraged there I think.
The MCP thing feels like an I like to leave my keys as a huge bulge under the welcome mat type vulnerability. It seems really easy to not do that and also something that is kind of out of scope for both lock makers and mat salesmen to address directly.
Maybe the MCP ecosystem is such that it's hard to both avoid this and keep the impression that you're doing magic and not just implementing a heavily annotated API, hopefully secured and with specific and well-defined functionality, and also they are all hacks.
Back in the old days if you got found out for a race science and men's rights internet instigator it was possible it might actually have negative real-life implications.
Sigh.
Rationalists tend to lean more towards anime villain that Bond villain, but yeah.
just one more data trove bro
Are new data-hungry players entering the market of are we still pretending that shoveling more social media posts to the data furnace will somehow overcome structural limitations?
Unless he specifies his problem was with ostensibly leftist academics being specifically too dismissive of race science and incelist tropes this is worthless, just run of the mill face-leopard schadenfreude.
Also the second half (the what? what's the cut-off point?) of his career has been if anything more mask off, and it's not like he stopped whining about woke after posting a half-hearted disapproval of trump like three days before the election after years of writing about how cool it would be if there was less regulation especially for healthcare.
Reading Heinlein as a kid isn't even especially notable, but it's Yud so he definitely means the polyamory advocacy stuff specifically.
Wow it's almost like alignment and AI ethics studies is less a serious academic field and more like a prank capital likes to play on consumers.
But I also think Zhao Tingyang's take that alignment will make AI evil because people are evil falls too much into the the-people-deserve-to-be-disempowered totalitarian state funny business side of things to be especially influential down these parts.