yes, that and the other thing

“I actually think that AI fundamentally makes us more human.”

I mean, I agree in the sense that the heaps of AI bullshit these guys are dumping on us opened my eyes to how truly special human cognition is!

shocking!

oh dude shittoss was doxed that’s lit

That’s hilarious, and much more efficient than when I ask it to list all the permutations of C, F, K and U.

God I always forget about the repugnant conclusion. It’s baffling that it’s being taken as anything but a fatal indictment of utilitarianism.

Oh, good, ex-incel Scott is in a polycule now, the wonders of the cult lifestyle.

The vibe I always got is that it’s somewhat more sinister than IQ, in that it’s purported to be an Actually Real Property of humans that’s measured by IQ tests, when IQ tests in themselves don’t necessarily make claims beyond raw statistical variance.

It’s like talk around IQ got too careful so they made this as a sort of anti-euphemism. Disphemism??

edit: wow it’s a real word

wow, taking 6 months to build a static model! adding a thousand variations of a running animation! it’s good to know they’re so commited to making games fun!

Despite the hype, from my admittedly limited experience I haven’t seen a chatbot that is anywhere near passing the turing test. It can seemingly fool people who want to be fooled but throw some non-sequiturs or anything cryptic and context-dependent at it and it will fail miserably.

wait, crypto perfume is not a metaphor? and it’s for women??

nah, if anything this A.I. craze has made me appreciate how incredibly smart even the supposedly dimmest of humans are. we can use language of our own volition, to create meaning. in fact we frigging invented it!!! we’re just bloody amazing, to hell with misanthropy.

oh

Yup, it’s 100% repeating the kind of cliché that is appropriate to the situation. Which is what the machine is designed to do. This business is getting stupider and more desperate by the day.

imagine the dogwifhat influencers forced to live in their bubble of insincere whimsy, making sure to share their daily quota of memes so other influencers with blue checks can reply with other memes about frens and remilio, all trying desperately to recreate a moment when the public seemed to maybe care about crypto. maybe this is appropriate punishment.

it’s stupid and i wouldn’t have brought it up if zack wasn’t such a fucking dick, but that’s fucking rich coming from someone who’s so high on their own completely misguided biological essentialism, at the exclusion of any social reality, that they think an apt and plausible way to pass as a woman in public is to use a full head silicone mask

alas, too much of a transphobe to know better

oh holy shit I was only a handful of paragraphs in but he literally says that!!!

So The New York Times implicitly accuses us of being racists, like Charles Murray, and instead of pointing out that being a racist like Charles Murray is the obviously correct position that sensible people will tend to reach in the course of being sensible, we disingenuously deny everything.

one point for (pseudo)intellectual honesty i guess!

“It was bad that the New York Times called Scott a racist, because he’s a racist but in a way that makes it correct to be racist.”

I asked ChatGPT-4 if cars in roundabouts in Ireland go clockwise or counterclockwise. It got it wrong. When I told it that, it apologized and gave the right answer. But then I trickily called it out on its right answer, and it apologized again and reverted to the wrong answer. Fundamentally, it knows that the Irish drive on the left side of the road, but it doesn’t understand how to apply that to a roundabout to find the circular direction.

lol you fucking idiot

Another way of putting it: Out of 196 questions, ChatGPT-4 got about 5 more correct answers than a random guesser would (39 vs 34.23.)

What are the odds of that?

I’m too lazy to look through the tests he’s administering, but IQ tests like the WAIS have vocabulary questions, which yes you would expect an LLM to be better at than random chance.

I’ve surely said it before but when you see the sort of thinking on display by Mr Max Truth here, is it any wonder why rationalists are impressed with ChatGPT’s reasoning faculties.