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MistakeNotOk6203 OP t1_j9vz7oa wrote

Nothing of course, but the way the accelerationist sentiment was spread was just to spam AGI good posts and opinion posts like "I think that chatgpt is cool and I like it", so maybe initiating lots of discussion (ideally fueled by the Bankless podcast) can modify that sentiment.

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Cryptizard t1_j9vripn wrote

What are you adding to this discussion that hasn't already been talked to death in dozens of other posts with the exact same topic over the last couple days? Or that EY hasn't been saying for a decade?

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Artanthos t1_j9vphbo wrote

>I don't know who you're kidding, maybe yourself? The conservative platform is about 95% of the issues I named and gun control

I'm not talking about the conservative platform, and I've tried to make this very clear.

I'm talking about the hive mind classifying anything and everything that disagrees with it as conservative and downvoting it while ignoring their own issues and any real data that contradicts their own biases.

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zero0n3 t1_j9vo41k wrote

I wasn’t the one saying art was scarce. I’m the one saying it was abundant! It’s the medium we record it on that has changed over time. The concept of art really hasn’t.

And even then it wasn’t scarce. Just look at the pyramids. Art everywhere from the writing to the presentation of mummies etc.

The emotion and free will piece was more conceptual. Like A species that doesn’t have emotions or free will wouldn’t be able to create or understand art at any level.

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Savings-Juice-9517 t1_j9vmqlt wrote

Key takeaways:

Short term:

  • OpenAI will become increasingly cautious with the deployment of their models. This could mean that users as well as use cases may be more closely monitored and restrained.
  • They are working towards more alignment and controllability in the models. I think customization will play a key role in future OpenAI services.
  • Reiterates that OpenAI’s structure aligns with the right incentives: “a nonprofit that governs us”, “a cap on the returns our shareholders can earn”.

Long term:

  • Nice quote: “The first AGI will be just a point along the continuum of intelligence.”
  • AI that accelerates science will be a special case that OpenAI focuses on, because AGI may be able to speed up its own progress and thus expand the capability exponentially.

Credit to Dr Jim Fan for the analysis

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No_Ninja3309_NoNoYes t1_j9vlwyv wrote

Some LLMs are not trained with the right amount of parameters or the right learning rate. But the static nature of LLMs is the biggest problem. You need neuromorphic hardware and spiking neural networks to address the issue. In the meantime I think quick fixes will be attempted such as forward 2x passes. My friend Fred says that just adding small random Gaussian noise to the parameters can also help. Obviously human brains are very noisy but somehow very efficient too.

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Cryptizard t1_j9vlbuz wrote

>which is statistically very unlikely

What makes you say that? There are multiple studies that suggest we are at the very, very beginning of the time period that the universe is able to support life. The universe is only 14 billion years old, and it will have conditions for life to arise for another 10-100 trillion years. Statistically, the overwhelming majority of lifeforms (99.999%) that will ever evolve will come after us.

We reached the advanced intelligence stage almost as fast as we possibly could. Our solar system was one of the earliest ones with abundant heavy elements. Life evolved very shortly after our planet's formation, less than 1 billion years after. It has taken us 4 billion years to reach the level we are at now. Our planet will naturally become uninhabitable in another half a billion years, as the sun gets too hot and we lose all the CO2 in the atmosphere. On a cosmic scale, we had a very small window to actually get the intelligence and civilization stuff worked out.

There is also the inflationary argument made by Alan Guth, that the number of universes is growing exponentially and so almost every civilization that ever arrises is the "first" one in their own universe. I'll let you google that one if you haven't heard it.

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