The sequence of links hopefully lays things out well enough for normies? I think it it does, but I’ve been aware of the scene since the mid 2010s, so I’m not the audience that needs it. I can almost feel sympathy for Sam dealing with all the doomers, except he uses the doom and hype to market OpenAI and he lied a bunch so not really. And I can almost feel sympathy for the board, getting lied to and outmaneuvered by a sociopathic CEO, but they are a bunch of doomers from the sound of it so, eh. I would say they deserve each other, its the rest of the world that don’t deserve them (from the teacher dealing with the LLM slop plugged into homework, to the Website Admin fending off scrapers, to legitimate ML researchers getting the attention sucked away while another AI winter starts to loom, to the machine cultist not saving a retirement fund and having panic attacks over the upcoming salvation or doom).
I finished and realised Yudkowsky was the good guy in my story here. Because the other guy is fuckin’ Sam.
Starting a cult to build god, control god and upload your consciousness into god?
Well, at least it is an ethos.
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All of this could have been prevented if the Rationalists has just read the insight porn article in ribbonfarm about sociopaths etc in the workplace. ;)
Nah, they all consider themselves justified in sociopathic behavior.
That doesn’t matter, they still are the ‘clueless’ AI doomers vs the ‘sociopathic’ Altman (doubt much ‘losers’ work there). (I’m using these terms here specifically like how the insight porn ribbonfarm thing did. And I mean it as a joke, ribbonfarm is part of their insight blog culture, they just don’t actually learn much from the things they read).
To explain, the clueless believe in the work the company is doing and will work hard without really looking at advancing their own career, they are the true believers (they still can be real life sociopaths, if they work for the art in the woodchipper company for example). The sociopaths are the ones who are in it to improve their own career will fuck over and abuse the clueless for their own advancement/enrichment. Losers know it is just a job, a paycheck, they do their job nothing more and go home, have a family, hobbies, touch grass, live a rich full life. There I saved you a novel length of blog posts (im not kidding btw, the ebook (sold on amazon of course) is 171 pages).
