Some of that bazinga’s most misanthropic and bootlicky takes have already been deleted by mods so I can’t directly quote them, but what was deleted were some logical rational whoppers such as “all of you are under an idealistic delusion that human beings will always outcompete machines in work tasks if they believe strongly enough.” 
That ship sailed at least as far back as the myth of Paul Bunyan. Personally, the moment I added wheels to my travel bag, those wheels made me obsolete as a travel bag carrier. Fucking no one took that position but that bazinga didn’t want to confront positions that were actually taken and kept doing victory laps while congratulating themself. 
The most persistent take remaining was not even far off from my slight exaggeration of the conclusions drawn by that bazinga in the title of this thread: they claimed that there is no difference between LLMs and you, right now, sitting here reading this text. Persisting with that take with sea lioning tactics demanding that everyone else prove otherwise (so much for extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence) and dodging every refutation of it already in that thread, the implication of their take is that every time AI Dungeon tells you “Count Grey” might have shown up, uninvited, to your Gundam interactive fanfic, smirking and chuckling before violently murdering everyone in the room with “squelch” sounds, that isn’t just a bad data set fed to it by edgelords: that was from a nascent potentially-sapient ghost in the machine that may soon be at least as intelligent as you. 
Considering I’m shipping out in a few days and I really don’t like posting from a phone so I’m likely to be away from here for an indefinite time after that, it almost feels like supernatural timing to have this sort of ultimate bazinga show up now. 
Yes I posted a lot in that particular thread about Redditors being really superstitious about the tech magic of LLMs, but then look who approached me.
You know you could probably have a lot less stress in your life if you don’t go around finding these IRL soyjaks to dunk on. Think of your cardiovascular health
You know you could probably have a lot less stress in your life if you don’t go around finding these IRL soyjaks to dunk on. Think of your cardiovascular health
I actually am heading mostly off-grid in a few days for an indefinite time to fulfill some lifelong dreams. I’m no longer going to be anywhere near Silicon Valley so I won’t have to see or hear or argue with bazingas (I hope) offline anymore either.
Well, have fun writing your manifesto out in the woods
Does writing my next book out in the woods count?
The Bazinga Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity
If your book’s not a thinly veiled manifesto why even write it
If your book’s not a thinly veiled manifesto why even write it
Looks at previous novel trilogy
Dox yourself on the way out and drop those titles, I’ve just about caught up with Unjust Depths
I’m sending a personal message now.
have fun.
maybe not too much fun
what kind of book? fiction?
Yeah. Contemporary story with some slight sci-fi elements. It’s an inversion of sorts of the usual “what if the lights go out” collapse story but with leftist characteristics and a less misanthropic perspective than the usual “grizzled dudebro with a gun avenges fridged wife and protects daughter figure” slop. Don’t want to give too much away until it’s near release (and I’ve settled on its title).
Who up makin they claims non-falsifiable rn
If you can’t objectively prove that AI Dungeon isn’t conscious, then you are not conscious either, you meat computer.
“Hard” problem of consciousness? Actually, if you just look up consciousness on Wikipedia like I did, you’ll find it’s rather easy.
There’s a lot of complex problems that techbros believe that can solve by dismissing or ignoring them while trying to emulate whatever they saw on a movie recently.
Just put it on the blockchain bro
Put it on the cloud! Make a virtual server!
/r/botsrights
Aaaw, mods deleted a lot of their comments? They were so funny though. I thought techbros hated manual labour, but this guy sure did love digging that hole deeper and deeper.
Holy shit, that dipshit is still at it? I guess the many analytical tools from a wolfram alpha plugin aren’t enough to know when you’re making a clown of yourself.
Most recent post was only a few minutes ago.
🤡 Impressive bazinga clown, juggling marketing hype and riding an argument-dodging unicycle to weave away from actually educated and trained responses regarding actual artificial intelligence research and theory in that thread (not mine) for days now. 🤡
Creating a fundamentalist techno religion based around the worship of Microsoft’s Clippy
The “you can’t prove that the treat printer isn’t conscious” gambit could easily be applied to an automated voice recognition system on a phone. Or fucking anything that responds to user input and provides some probabilty and dataset-driven response. Why stop there? Why not say we can’t disprove that Clippy is conscious/sentient/sapient? That’s the magic of extraordinary claims without extraordinary evidence where the burden of proof is sophistically pushed on the doubters!
I dunno what’s going on in this thread but I hope you come back and we’ll miss you
I dunno what’s going on in this thread but I hope you come back and we’ll miss you
I doubt everyone will, but I will miss a lot of you in return, and even if it’s damn inconvenient to log in here on a phone, when things are settled and more routine where I’m going and with what I’ll be doing, when I got fatherhood figured out a bit better, and when my next book is ready to be released, I think I’ll return here for that, even if it’s a mild opsec risk. Part of why I wanted to go radio silent was because of
and the temptation of feeling safer with a fresh start after the move.That’s all pretty reasonable stuff. Take care of yourself comrade that’s the most important thing
Thank you. I’m doing this to fulfill lifelong dreams after all. Moving always sucks, as is changing livelihoods at least in the short term, but I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn’t take this chance.
TBH I feel like if a
is spend time on me, they’re not spending time on someone important lol.the tankiest thing you can do in life is aggro feds.
Count Grey
Haven’t seen him in ages, the most recent versions of AI Dungeon are a lot more boring than the first few.
I’m glad; was some creepy weird shit back in the day.
