dgerard

oh yeah, none of this is new observation - but now it's the VCs admitting the 2+2 that we can then add to make 4

looking into this, but as far as i can tell the AI here is entirely fake

need more to declare it such

looks like a billionaire group chat collective delusion, see also return-to-office

they're Thiel creatures. This is why (a) they're in all the papers all the fucking time (b) no other pronatalist couple is

I've emailed Microsoft Investor Relations to clarify what they meant and why they didn't just say "percent" if they meant "percent". But if it had been 16 percent, they'd have been yelling it from the rooftops, and they haven't been.

if you look through the "venture capital" category, you'll see a few where I start going off on this topic. I blame the AI bubble on these bozos specifically.

I have been corrected - this is a coding unit in an engineering degree. Vibe bridge-building.

I think that LW post is the example I remember, Veedrac insisting that mathematics holds even in the face of a "sufficiently intelligent" AGI

tho i think there was also discussion on rat-tumblr

i'm not digging for cites, but i recall it was extremely hard to convince rationalists that even the ASI couldn't just break cryptography, because they don't understand maths either

Nadella said written "by software" "on some products" so he's barely making a claim

the only people it torments are rationalists, so my full support to Comrade Basilisk

roko stresses repeatedly that the AI is the good AI, the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of all humanity!

what sort of person would fear that the coherent volition of all humanity would consider it morally necessary to kick him in the nuts forever?

well, roko