There are 8 billion people on this world, but the best person for the job is your buddy who you owe a favor to.
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Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for the fact that AI, something I'm passionate about, is in the hands of these fucking bazinga brains. Not just control over the technology, but how it's understood and discussed in the popular consciousness.
Fuck Yud, fuck this CEO, fuck everyone who looks at AI and sees nothing but a magical tool for fulfilling their desire to control and subjugate.
It's no coincidence, the only thing GPT does better than Harry Potter fanfictions is generate spam.
LLMs in a less bazinga society could be cool and good, but they're used to fuck people over, make the arts unreachable for people that aren't already of means because they are out performed by the slop machines but are expected to pay to live, and we have the singularity cult expecting a holographic waifu goddess to emerge from the slop machines any moment now.
Christ I just got done reading a Reddit thread where someone talked about their AI partner
Imagine if we lived in a world where AI wasn’t used to further atomize and subjugate humanity to the digital realm
Extremely fucking bleak
One of the current tech CEOs stated that she felt her corporation's LLM project was "warm" and "more human" than her admittedly limited dating experience.
Shit is bleak. We're ruled by people that see treat printers as "warm" and "human." 
One of the current tech CEOs stated that she felt her corporation's LLM project was "warm" and "more human" than her admittedly limited dating experience.
I can entirely believe that a text printer is more warm and human than the sort of people willing to date a tech CEO
... You're right. 
If I understand the conflict in OpenAI correctly, it's a schism between the folks who actually believe in the Skynet threat (lead by chief scientist Ilya Sutskever) and those who (correctly) understand the Skynet fears are a marketing tool (Altman and Microsoft).
I always knew that Microsoft was going to cannibalize OpenAI, but I assumed it was going to be via taking over the infrastructure/IP and booting Altman. It looks like it's the other way around, with them cannibalizing OpenAI's staff: Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft. From this article, OpenAI has 700 employees, and basically all of them are threatening to join Microsoft.
If I understand the conflict in OpenAI correctly, it's a schism between the folks who actually believe in the Skynet threat (lead by chief scientist Ilya Sutskever)
I'm personally quite glad that the scientists have a serious perspective on this. At the very least it means they might withhold their labour if they deem it unsafe at any time.
It's far too early for it to be unsafe and you're correct that it's marketing at the moment, but it's still good that they take it so seriously they're willing to break companies over it. It bodes well that they conflict so hard early on for when things get into actual dangerous territory.
The problem though is that this is pure idealism on the part of the scientists. There’s no way anything approaching AGI can be kept under wraps by some scientists no matter how benevolent they consider themselves. And given our current economic structure once that cat is out of the bag it’ll be hell for the rest of us.
I’ve seen a lot of talk on the orange site about AI doomerism. I’m not doomer about AI I’m doomer about our society being the wrong structure to handle it.
On one side we have eugenicist doomsday cultists and on the other side you have just your normal opportunist techbro (who's also a eugenicist).
How do I become CEO of something? It seems I would have excellent job security afterwards.
9/10 Nepo baby.
0.5 / 10 worked your way through corporate ladder
0.5 / 10 more lucky than a lightning strike or lotto win.
It’s a weird dichotomy because you get the overachieving MBA types and the “my dad founded the company” types you’d expect. However you also get these unassuming types that just have undergrad business degrees from middling schools, but due to the dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time they end up with a CV that makes them attractive for the c suite and then it can snowball pretty fast. That’s what happened with my FIL, got a job in the early eighties in a bank, they stuck her in the computer banking department (which in those days was not where the hotshots were), but then the nineties roll around, the first big wave of tech startups, suddenly “banking plus computers” background is a hot commodity. Voila, she’s in the c suite.
overachieving MBA types
lol I worked with multiple overachieving MBA types with the same position as me. It really is mostly luck at the end of the day
It really is just networking. It’s why CEOs lose their jobs all the time or resign in disgrace, then they get picked up elsewhere. It’s called the old boy network
It’s absurd. All the companies I’ve worked for have had a sort of rotation of high level executives just staying for a few years and dipping. Back when we were in the office, some of these people would just walk around all day talking to interns and their buddies. Some days they would have a few meetings, but it’s all unfathomable horse shit
And they make it seem like these useless fucks are the glue holding companies together. It’s like a dumb little elite club where they convince all of the lessers that they’re very important people
In this case go to Harvard then do a roadtrip with your Harvard friends and get funding for doing the Truman show on the internet for some reason.
Evidence #383726222727 you don't need to know jack shit about the product to be a CEO or corporate executive.
Capitalism rewards innovation
Ravenclaw's Basilisk 
It's a big bazinga club, and you ain't in it.
the future is millions of weebs having parasocial relationships / jerking it to AI (okay, LLM, really) V-tubers with a jackboot stepping on their face over and over again
I've opted to beat the rush and have been jerking it to LAPACK and EIGPACK for the last few years.
Some of the sessions have been absolutely singular.
I tried to read on what's going on with this OpenAI CEO stuff and why this recent event is good/bad and it really felt like fanboys arguing about who their favorite sports team was. I didn't get much out of it.
It’s all coming together now
Poggers
Rich people shit-slinging about some extremely powerful tech that has the potential to reshape the world
Same as it ever was