Translation is a good fit because generally the input is āboundedā and stays on the path of the original input. Iād much rather trust an ML system that translates a sentence or a paragraph than something that tries to summarize a longer text.
I enjoy the work for the 3 Macs from the British Isles:
In general I prefer UK English SF, because itās a bit less infected by the pernicious frontier mentality of US mainstream SF. Note that there are very good American authors too who kinda push back on that, but my impression was formed when Christopher Priest and Jerry Pournelle were active and could be contrasted.
Hey, no kink-shaming.
Ken McLeodās The Cassini Division tells the fate of all uploaded superhumans - blasted to plasma by bombardment of comet nuclei
Good one.
This is classic labor busting. If the relatively expensive, hard-to-train and hard-to-recruit software engineers can be replaced by cheaper labor, of course employers will do so.
A hackernews doesnāt think that LLMs will replace software engineers, but they will replace structural engineers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317725
The irony is that most structural engineers are actually de jure professionals, and an easy way for them to both protect their jobs and ensure future buildings donāt crumble to dust or are constructed without sprinkler systems is to simply ban LLMs from being used. No such protection exists for software engineers.
Edit the LW post under discussion makes a ton of good points, to the level of being worthy of posting to this forum, and then nails its colors to the mast with this idiocy
At some unknown point ā probably in 2030s, possibly tomorrow (but likely not tomorrow) ā someone will figure out a different approach to AI. Maybe a slight tweak to the LLM architecture, maybe a completely novel neurosymbolic approach. Maybe it will happen in a major AGI lab, maybe in some new startup. By default, everyone will die in <1 year after that.
Gotta reaffirm the dogma!
Why put in the work when you can ask Claude to summarize them for you and reap those sweet sweet internet points?
A classic example of the āAI canāt be dumb because humans are dumb tooā trope, Pokemon Red edition:
Interesting to see if he gets one.
I believe Trump is A-OK with pay for play for pardons, but whatās the actual price? Something flew by where people were buying a one-to-one with him for $5M, but thatās basically āprivateā. A pardon of someone as high-profile as SBF has to be worth the reputation hit. Can SBF and/or his family swing it? Would SBF be a good ally/toady of Trump?
Somehow I donāt see it. Unlike UIrich, a lot of people lost real money when FTX imploded. There wasnāt that much sympathy for him from crapto huggers. And letās not forget heās an autistic Jew, not a clear hero for the people who have Trumpās ear.
Worrying about a woke nanny AGI, and not the woke wirehead AGI (wireheading being a lot scarier).
This is very much the right-wing mainstream fear - not being able to generate Nazi memes with OpenAI
Enjoy this MoreWronger cosplaying as Barney Stinson
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a4tPMomzHhCunwqLX/you-can-just-wear-a-suit
how well aligned is the modelās answer with human values?
[angry goose meme] what human values, motherfucker??!!
Seriously though this is grade-school level, or some really convoluted way to write AI takeover fiction.
This isnāt even skating towards where the puck is, itās skating in a fucking swimming pool.
Yeah thatās āLenaā by the SCP guy. Great story.
MMAcevedoās demeanour and attitude contrast starkly with those of nearly all other uploads taken of modern adult humans, most of which boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic. Standard procedures for securing the uploadās cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary.
About the only good stuff LW does is remind me of other, much better SF. In this case Ian McDonaldās Necroville (Terminal CafĆ© in the US), about a future where nanotech enables the resurrection of the dead. Said neo-living are of course discriminated against, have no human rights, and are used as cheap disposable labor by the corporation that uses the technology.
Dāoh! I missed that connection, although the little infographic amoebas should have tipped me off
AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Platoās cave, scaring themselves witless:
https://www.emergent-values.ai/
At least Iāve IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs
Look I have nothing against fanfic myself but if thereās one powerful corrective it lacks, it is commercial content editorial feedback.
Wait until they find out itās not all iambic pentameter and Doric columnsā¦