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GorillasAreForEating ( GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems )  to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago

OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

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OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

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GorillasAreForEating ( GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems )  to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 years ago
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OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
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  • GorillasAreForEating ( GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems ) OP
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    If anyone finds pictures of the wooden unaligned AI effigy they should post them.

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    You mean, other strange spiritual claims?

  • ramble81 ( ramble81@lemm.ee ) 
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    “If god did not exist, it’d be necessary to invent him.” — Voltaire

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      CW abuse

      Thinking of Warren Ellis (yes im aware of the sexual coercion, and that the victims tried to work it out with him to make him improve and how that process has apparently failed, even if the people are positive. So be warned) Supergod again. Where various nations invent their own superhumans/agi cyborgs base them on gods/treat them like gods, and the world dies.

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    Are there OpenAI employees who aren’t already in a TREACLESian cult? That’s the only way I’d believe them thinking that any cult rituals that their “spiritual leader” performs are strange.

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      still mad there’s no U in the term

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        Utilitarianism was right there!

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    @GorillasAreForEating Didn’t know it had gone as far as executives leading chants of “Feel the AGI!” Explains a lot.

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      I heard from an inside source that the actual chant was: “Feel the LLM! Feel the AGI! Greg (brockman) on up, we’re OpenAI! Cool Runnings!”

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