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Cake day: 2024年3月3日

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  • As a Mbin user, appreciate him being in the right place at the right time, even if his coding wasn’t fully “ready” for the sudden task and he couldn’t continue the work himself. That he made it open source for others to take and run with made a huge difference. Glad he’s doing okay.



  • “Slop” ought to be another word that’s gained popularity in use. I’m still having trouble with it, mainly because I think it’s overused a lot in short insults and dismissals of things. Not aimed at you here, at least you define WHY you consider it in that category. I’m talking more the “AI slop” that mirrors the “fake news” or “git gud” or any other reply that avoids actual discussion and screams “I hate this, but have nothing more to contribute”.





  • Mine isn’t that bad - only 20 years old but has seen all sorts of things from rocks and sand to hail and is just pitted bad enough to be annoying. But it’s that fact that I’ve seen the abuse it’s gone through without the first hairline crack that makes me cautious to get rid of something that’s stood the test of time. It’s either the angle or the glass (doubtful), but at this point it can’t be just luck, right? I just hear horror stories of replacement glass that isn’t fitted right, leaks, or breaks early on. I can deal with it a bit longer.



  • That’s a reasonable definition. It also pushes things closer to what we think we can do now, since the same logic makes a slower AGI equal to a person, and a cluster of them on a single issue better than one. The G (general) is the key part that changes things, no matter the speed, and we’re not there. LLMs are general in many ways, but lack the I to spark anything from it, they just simulate it by doing exactly what your point is, being much faster at finding the best matches in a response in data training and appearing sometimes to have reasoned it out.

    ASI is a definition only in scale. We as humans can’t have any idea what an ASI would be like other than far superior than a human for whatever reasons. If it’s only speed, that’s enough. It certain could become more than just faster though, and that added with speed… naysayers better hope they are right about the impossibilities, but how can they know for sure on something we wouldn’t be able to grasp if it existed?


  • I doubt the few that are calling for a slowing or all out ban on further work on AI are trying to profit from any success they have. The funny thing is, we won’t know if we ever hit that point of even just AGI until we’re past it, and in theory AGI will quickly go to ASI simply because it’s the next step once the point is reached. So anyone saying AGI is here or almost here is just speculating, just as anyone who says it’s not near or won’t ever happen.

    The only thing possibly worse than getting to the AGI/ASI point unprepared might be not getting there, but creating tools that simulate a lot of its features and all of its dangers and ignorantly using them without any caution. Oh look , we’re there already, and doing a terrible job at being cautious, as we usually are with new tech.



  • If we had better systems in place to help everyone who needs it, this probably wouldn’t be a problem. Telling someone they need therapy isn’t helpful, it’s just acknowledging we aren’t aiding the ones who need it when they need it most.

    I’ll go further and say anyone who thinks any of these AI are really what they’re marketed as needs help, as in education of what is and isn’t possible. So that will cover all instances, not just the romantic variety.






  • I don’t think there’s a “right” way, people adapt to how our society functions. Proud to be part of the few at the beginning of the red line, met on Q-Link and we’re still together, so it can work. I would say “online” should be broken into separate lines, as there’s different ways to meet online, and some of them let you interact and “know” a person better than others, like dating apps (which also existed before the internet!)