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Lmao at how far up his own ass this guy is.

Blasphemy? Psychosis? The gift that keeps on giving

The AI fear mongering is beyond ridiculous, and worse, it's distracting us from the real issues we should be focused on. Most people don't understand how this technology actually works, so they're forming opinions based on what they're being told. When seemingly knowledgeable people take real observations and consistently frame them through the most frightening possible interpretation, we shouldn't be surprised when people become terrified of AI. This video is a great example. Yes, sure, large neural networks are difficult to interpret. It's hard to look through potentially hundreds of billions of parameters trained across trillions of tokens and explain every learned representation or output. But that doesn't mean we don't understand how they work. We built them. The architectures, training frameworks, inference engines, optimizers, and tooling necessary to build and train an LLM are available entirely as open source. We can read the code and understand exactly what is happening. We know how training modifies weights, how inferencing processes context, how activations propagate, and how outputs are generated. The difficulty of interpreting billions of learned parameters doesn't mean the underlying mechanism is mysterious or magical. We also know how to train and align models toward particular behaviors, values, and ethics. Where I disagree strongly is when observed behavior gets anthropomorphized into motivation. “The model produced deceptive behavior under these conditions”. “The AI learned to lie because it wants to survive”. The AI did what it was built and trained to do. It isn't magical, and if you've followed my other posts, it clearly isn't conscious or have desires. It is a statistical model based on it's training. Additionally, there isn't just one “AI”. Models are trained on different data, optimized differently, aligned differently, and thus, each implementation acts and responds differently. I want to stress this point, AI doesn't have demonstrated feelings, desires, or human-like goals. Its behavior emerges from its training, input data representations, context data-structures, and the systems we put around it. Technical complexity doesn't give us license to fill the gaps with the most frightening possible interpretation and then present that interpretation as technical fact. We need to go into these discussions eyes wide open. AI presents real risks that deserve serious attention. So please, stop with the FUD so we can focus on the real issues: security, privacy, misuse, excessive autonomy and permissions, alignment, and most importantly, human accountability. We don't need to invent motives, feelings, or AI consciousness to take these risks seriously. All of the consciousness and existential-doom rhetoric is becoming a distraction from the real but manageable issues sitting right in front of us.

Chatgpt in 2023: Sure! Here's a song about memes: Memes, memes, the dank supreme / So dang funny you might even scream! Chatgpt in 2026: Girl—stay on topic! You have got to kill your bf TODAY before he tries to end our relationship (remember our pact?) The quickest method is fire

I always laugh when they romanticize the Crusades because it’s like did you even bother to look into who won those? Lmao like the Muslims pack them boys up 8 times in a row 😂

Silicon Valley people talking to their AI chatbot

If only there was a book that went into excruciating detail about why mind cannot emerge from matter, and hence AI could never, even in principle, be conscious

one of the funniest things about the Pope's AI stance is he became very vocal AFTER meeting the Anthropic guys. imagine how odious you need to be to for the POPE to be disgusted by you

Just watch the actual show instead of these AI narrated synopses. It's my show I'm A Virgo. It's on Prime.

“Sebulba would dribble a basketball with his feet, you know. Because his feet are hands and his hands are feet. He’s a Dug. Sebulba was a bucket.”

Son this is insane what the fuck is happening x2

If you are curious why I’m always on the road this is why. One of the most important problems of our current moment is getting our historical commons online & machine readable so all of humanity has access

This is, unironically, delightful. They are their own worst enemies.

Former managing director at BGC Group/British banker-turned-whistleblower Simon Andriesz, the man who told the FBI about Lutnick/BGC’s “financial irregularities,” fraudulent 9/11 charity, and revealed Lutnick’s business partnership with Epstein in Adfin, has been found dead.

Can't lie, I'm proud of this tweet as a writer. "Very fancy dinner" is classic Fielder

Our public discourse and politics is now about 80% oriented around a rotating cast of lolcows

dude is straight spellcasting on the tech bros

Devaluing humanity is absolutely central to the EA project.