It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • Yet, under Aron Peterson’s LinkedIn posts about these video clips, you can find the usual comments about him being “a Luddite”, being “in denial” etc.

    And then there’s this:

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    From: Rupert Breheny Bio: Cobalt AI Founder | Google 16 yrs | International Keynote Speaker | Integration Consultant AI Comment: Nice work. I’ve been playing around myself. First impressions are excellent. These are crisp, coherent images that respect the style of the original source. Camera movements are measured, and the four candidate videos generated are generous. They are relatively fast to render but admittedly do burn through credits.

    From: Aron Peterson (Author) Bio: My body is 25% photography, 25% film, 25% animation, 25% literature and 0% tolerating bs on the internet. Comment: Rupert Breheny are you a bot? These are not crisp images. In my review above I have highlighted these are terrible.






  • Not wanting the Basilisk eternal torture dungeon to happen isn’t an empathy thing, they just think that a sufficiently high fidelity simulation of you would be literally you, because otherwise brain uploads aren’t life extension. It’s basically transhumanist cope.

    Yud expands on it in some place or other, along the lines that the gap in consciousness between the biological and digital instance isn’t that different from the gap created by anesthesia or a night’s sleep, it’s just on the space axis instead of the time axis, or something like that.

    And since he also likes the many world interpretations it turns out you also share a soul with yourselves in parallel dimensions; this is why the zizians are so eager to throw down, since getting killed in one dimension just lets supradimensional entities know you mean business.

    Early 21st century anthropology is going to be such a ridiculous field of study.


  • Here’s the exact text in the prompt that I had in mind (found here), it’s in the function specification for the js repl:

    […] The analysis tool (also known as the REPL) can be used to execute code in a JavaScript environment in the browser.

    What is the analysis tool?

    The analysis tool is a JavaScript REPL. You can use it just like you would use a REPL. But from here on out, we will call it the analysis tool.

    When to use the analysis tool

    Use the analysis tool for:

    • Complex math problems that require a high level of accuracy and cannot easily be done with “mental math
    • To give you the idea, 4-digit multiplication is within your capabilities, 5-digit multiplication is borderline, and 6-digit multiplication would necessitate using the tool.
    • […]

    What if this is not a being terminally AI pilled thing? What if this is the absolute pinnacle of what billions and billions of dollars in research will buy you for requiring your lake-drying sea-boiling LLM-as-a-service not look dumb compared to a pocket calculator?




  • Claude’s system prompt had leaked at one point, it was a whopping 15K words and there was a directive that if it were asked a math question that you can’t do in your brain or some very similar language it should forward it to the calculator module.

    Just tried it, Sonnet 4 got even less digits right 425,808 × 547,958 = 233,325,693,264 (correct is 233.324.900.064)

    I’d love to see benchmarks on exactly how bad at numbers LLMs are, since I’m assuming there’s very little useful syntactic information you can encode in a word embedding that corresponds to a number. I know RAG was notoriously bad at matching facts with their proper year for instance, and using an LLM as a shopping assistant (ChatGTP what’s the best 2k monitor for less than $500 made after 2020) is an incredibly obvious use case that the CEOs that love to claim so and so profession will be done as a human endeavor by next Tuesday after lunch won’t even allude to.


  • (No spoiler tags because it’s just background lore for Dune that’s very tangential to the main plot)

    Dune - after catastrophic wars between humans and AIs, computers are forbidden.

    That’s a retcon from the incredibly shit Dune-quel books from like 15 years after the original author had died. The first Dune was written well before computers as we know them would come in vogue, and the Butlerian Jihad was meant to be a sweeping cultural revolution against the stranglehold that automated decision-making had achieved over society, fought not against off-brand terminators but the entrenched elites that monopolized access to the setting’s equivalent to AI.

    The inciting incident semi-canonically (via the Dune Encyclopedia) I think was some sort of robo-nurse casually euthanizing Serena Butler’s newborn baby, because of some algorithmic verdict that keeping it alive didn’t square with optimal utilitarian calculus.

    tl;dr: The Butlerian Jihad originally seemed to be way more about against-the-walling the altmans and the nadellas and undoing the societal damage done by the proliferation of sfba rationalism, than it was about fighting epic battles against AI controlled mechs.