#effectivealtruism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #effectivealtruism, aggregated by home.social.
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“One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.”
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“One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.”
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“One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.”
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“One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.”
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Why do the big AI companies continue to bleed money as they race to improve technology that hasn't yet lived up to the current hype? Why does it seem like they don't care how much damage they do in the process? Why are they constantly wingeing on about "existential threat" when they demonstrate no real intention to slow down?
Because it's not about "AI". It's not about technology. It's not even, ultimately, about money. It's about the difference between terminal extinction and final extinction, the technoligarchy's fierce commitment to avoid the latter, and their keen desire to bring about the former. And the public discourse, especially by the press, is missing the plot.
h/t @xriskology
#ÉmilePTorres #TESCREAL #Rationalism #EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism #AIisaConGame #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #TheNerdReich
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Why do the big AI companies continue to bleed money as they race to improve technology that hasn't yet lived up to the current hype? Why does it seem like they don't care how much damage they do in the process? Why are they constantly wingeing on about "existential threat" when they demonstrate no real intention to slow down?
Because it's not about "AI". It's not about technology. It's not even, ultimately, about money. It's about the difference between terminal extinction and final extinction, the technoligarchy's fierce commitment to avoid the latter, and their keen desire to bring about the former. And the public discourse, especially by the press, is missing the plot.
h/t @xriskology
#ÉmilePTorres #TESCREAL #Rationalism #EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism #AIisaConGame #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #TheNerdReich
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Why do the big AI companies continue to bleed money as they race to improve technology that hasn't yet lived up to the current hype? Why does it seem like they don't care how much damage they do in the process? Why are they constantly wingeing on about "existential threat" when they demonstrate no real intention to slow down?
Because it's not about "AI". It's not about technology. It's not even, ultimately, about money. It's about the difference between terminal extinction and final extinction, the technoligarchy's fierce commitment to avoid the latter, and their keen desire to bring about the former. And the public discourse, especially by the press, is missing the plot.
h/t @xriskology
#ÉmilePTorres #TESCREAL #Rationalism #EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism #AIisaConGame #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #TheNerdReich
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Why do the big AI companies continue to bleed money as they race to improve technology that hasn't yet lived up to the current hype? Why does it seem like they don't care how much damage they do in the process? Why are they constantly wingeing on about "existential threat" when they demonstrate no real intention to slow down?
Because it's not about "AI". It's not about technology. It's not even, ultimately, about money. It's about the difference between terminal extinction and final extinction, the technoligarchy's fierce commitment to avoid the latter, and their keen desire to bring about the former. And the public discourse, especially by the press, is missing the plot.
h/t @xriskology
#ÉmilePTorres #TESCREAL #Rationalism #EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism #AIisaConGame #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #TheNerdReich
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Why do the big AI companies continue to bleed money as they race to improve technology that hasn't yet lived up to the current hype? Why does it seem like they don't care how much damage they do in the process? Why are they constantly wingeing on about "existential threat" when they demonstrate no real intention to slow down?
Because it's not about "AI". It's not about technology. It's not even, ultimately, about money. It's about the difference between terminal extinction and final extinction, the technoligarchy's fierce commitment to avoid the latter, and their keen desire to bring about the former. And the public discourse, especially by the press, is missing the plot.
h/t @xriskology
#ÉmilePTorres #TESCREAL #Rationalism #EffectiveAltruism #Longtermism #AIisaConGame #SiliconValley #TechnoFascism #TheNerdReich