@inthehands And not just statistics! I’ve also seen certain linguists and philosophers excited about the possibility of posing grammatical/ethical judgments to LLMs in bulk, apparently fully convinced that the results would hold any meaning or value whatsoever. Can’t wait for the smug “Trolley problem objectively solved” papers
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The remarks from the expert in this article, even as critical as they are, grossly understate just how foolish and messed up this is. -
the idea that a "singularity" is possible is just the idea that you can turn "mistaking a sigmoid for an exponential" into a millenarian religion@glyph This is a great thread but it IS scary to consider that there absolutely would be police standing guard over it until it can be fixed, people saying “If we don't repair the transforming killing machine, China will,” an op-ed in the NYT headed “My Don’t-Want-To-Be-Killed-By-a-Smirking-Robert-Patrick Friends Are Crazy,” principals signing deals with Google to have murderbots stalk classrooms (guardrails: only kill kids named John Connor), &c