i for sure agree that LLMs can be a huge trouble spot for mentally vulnerable people and there needs to be something done about it
my point was more on him using it to do his worst-of-both-worlds arguments where he’s simultaneously saying that ‘alignment is FALSIFIED!’ and also doing heavy anthropomorphization to confirm his priors (whereas it’d be harder to say that with something that’s more leaning towards maybe in the question whether it should be anthro’d like claude since that has a much more robust system) and doing it off the back of someones death
Making LLMs safe for mentally ill people is very difficult and this is a genuine tragedy but oh my god Yud is so gross here
Using the tragic passing of someone to smugly state that “the alignment by default COPE has been FALSIFIED” is really gross especially because Yud knows damn well this doesn’t “falsify” the “cope” unless he’s choosing to ignore any actual deeper claims of alignment by default. He’s acting like someone who’s engagement farming smugly
The funniest thing was the “reasons that this thesis might not be true” and the reasons were infinitely simpler and arguably stronger than the points for it that bordered on schizophrenic like:
“We don’t live in a simulation” and “we won’t create a paperclip maximizer”
i’m not sure if AI is a bubble that will pop no matter if we do or don’t get imminent AGI so probably the 2nd one but he still has a while longer of having to play the rational intellectual
Is the whole x risk thing as common outside of North America? Realizing I’ve never seen anyone from outside the anglosphere or even just America/Canada be as God killingly Rational as the usual suspects
Most AI usage is hated but I saw a lot of people that were a fan of when Fortnite did it with the Darth Vader NPC a few weeks ago
I thought it was creepy but hearing Vader talk about rizz or aura or the bite of 87 was kinda fun I guess
Are we sure that the doom stuff from the big companies is cynical hyping? Altman and co genuinely off their rocker feels fairly possible given what’s come out about the internal structure of openai with burning ai effigys and shit
i for sure agree that LLMs can be a huge trouble spot for mentally vulnerable people and there needs to be something done about it
my point was more on him using it to do his worst-of-both-worlds arguments where he’s simultaneously saying that ‘alignment is FALSIFIED!’ and also doing heavy anthropomorphization to confirm his priors (whereas it’d be harder to say that with something that’s more leaning towards maybe in the question whether it should be anthro’d like claude since that has a much more robust system) and doing it off the back of someones death