Post #3337688
2026-06-17 09:06 UTC
AGI’s ETA: Delayed (again) due to technical difficulties
came across this one when doomscrolling, pretty good article with healthy doses of skepticism. one of the three commenters on it appears to be a rationalist though (“empirical evidence” was a hard giveaway)
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-06-17 10:49
The header image is gold.
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@it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2026-06-18 06:39
The obsession with utility-maximizing Bayesian agents only gets weirder as time goes on. You couldn’t really get further from the paperclip maximizer concept than an LLM, and yet they still won’t shut up about unaligned goals and hidden utility functions.
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@TrashGoblin@awful.systems 2026-06-19 13:40
we don’t actually need human-like AI for paperclip maxxing This bit is true though; capitalism is already doing a fine job of paperclip maxxing.