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Why not have multiple Fedi Classics? That’s part of the beauty of the fediverse, after all. It’s great to be able to connect across instances, but it’s also great to not have to.

In fact, .ml, .grad, and Hexbear might be on their way to becoming something like this “Fedi Classic”, although not by their choice :P

Maybe it’s time for Linus to retire

Even if size does become a problem (SufferringFromSuccess.meme), we can always defederate a smaller Lemmy/Piefed network and call it Fedi Classic.

It makes sense that the kind of people who vibecode would fall for this :P

Ethical, environmental, and ground safety (these jets have to fall somewhere, after all) aside, this removes the whole hubris aspect of these crashes and implosions.

At which point you might as well use guillotines.

Okay, who asked a genie for Trump to ban AI?

I’m not mad, I just want to know. And also hope you have a wish or two left.

AI companion? I’m confused. I meant stuff like “recommended based on stuff you read” websites have.

Don’t we already have perfectly good recommendation algorithms? Not to mention the more social alternative of asking for recommendations…

Okay, now what are the odds of an AI lab full of hubris removing those safeguards and then giving it the means to synthesize pathogens?

Now THAT is an ideology I can get behind :P

I’d say it’s more often a result of misguided/misinformed/uniformed well intentions (the kind the path to hell is paved with) than outright assholery. Assholes usually just don’t help at all.

I think it’s a matter of not letting the theoretically perfect be the enemy of the practical good.

Saving 1 person is not as good as saving 100 with the same resources, but it’s better than doing nothing and saving 0.

I like the all-lowercase concept of effective altruism (making the most out of limited resources) but the organizations claiming that name are shady af

I think this article is at least ten times longer than it needs to be. No wonder people are focusing on the stuff related to the headline.

I’m about 25 percent into the article and this part seems important:

This is his actual plan: to halt all AI research, all across the Earth, and instead do genetic engineering eugenics for a generation. Pause AI, stop AI, slowdown, pacing the frontier, they are all smokescreens, rationalizations, or ways of watering down this plan. This is why there is never any real “after we pause”, or “we will unpause when”; this is the only actual plan, and the public front for the plan cannot say this because it is too stupid and too offensive to be spoken in public, except by Yudkowsky himself, who never stops talking and who is too ridiculous for anyone on the outside of Effective Altruism to believe that everyone listens to him.

Do they practice safe sex by having orgies in a Faraday box?

EDIT: about 50% into the article, the sex they practice doesn’t seem very safe, sane, or consensual

“I can do this all day.” - EP

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It might change with the next AI winter.

Also, the old “AI” was already a bit of a stretch from “artificial intelligence”.

In the meantime, I’ll probably refer to the old AI as “enemy controller”, at least in the code.