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simple schoolboy wrote:
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Based on early reporting, this might have (almost) went down. AI safety/ deceleration won out over progress.


This is sounding more correct now. Unbelievably short-sighted as now they will have no control when a Meta/Google/Amazon drops $10B and swoops all the folks leaving up into a org without fedora wearing clowns holding it back.
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Is he worth it?
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LOL. Also, this scene is near perfect film-making.
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It seems somehow unfair that in the year of our Lord 2023, Microsoft is one of the most promising companies on the bleeding edge of technology.
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I think this is the first I've seen of this take. How would he have compromised all the remaining board members? Only 2/4 signed the letter criticizing the boards action.
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He's back at openAI again? What a saga.
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Maybe we learned to keep "effective altruists" away from money making ventures. You'd have to be crazy to appoint either of these women to another board.
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Still no sign of a terminator travelling through time.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Latest is that a company called Q* proved some level of algorithmic problem solving that suggests the existential threat of AI is closer than we’d like to think, and that Brinkman knew of the development but didn’t share it with the BOD

Happy final thanksgiving y’all!
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California's gender representation law for board members and it's consequences have been a disaster. I think they can comply if Larry Summers self IDs as trans.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a35kp/ ... e-language

First thing they deciphered: “what do you get when a humpback mates with a sperm? your mom”
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How many RMers have downloaded this
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:How many RMers have downloaded this
I want whatever spat out that tardygrade art.
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