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https://gwern.net/guardian-angel - personal digital twins

this reads like a less addled version of Steve Yegge, but the same genre

headline source: https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768

hackernews loves it of course https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if Gwern is not a pasty white dude with a degree from a top-level US university I will eat my hat

also the probability we can match their now-revealed identity to past far-right/racist content that's not been scrubbed is very close to 1

[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

with a degree from a top-level US university I

why do people feel the need to address gwern as somebody smart?

i have never seen him say anything smart

he mostly seems angry about very autistic and occasionally racist stuff

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

could be a legacy admittant

[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

well, somewhat. about as readable.

oh i meant more in the sense of “what am i letting myself in for when i look up that name”?

[-] anise@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

it's the guy who built gas town, he wrote decent blog posts once but got completely got by ai bullshit some time ago

i dunno what that is, i can barely programme html lol, i just hated yudkowsky ten years ago and now here i am

i don’t especially follow particular developments in ai beyond getting a sufficient sense of the overall trajectory of the scam

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

Gas Town is the weird slop-illustrated hype post from a while back about creating a sort of corporate org chart of LLMs prompting each other. Basic ideas like "what if you had developer LLMs and project manager LLMs and a COO LLM and they all roleplayed with each other" got their own obfuscatory Mad Max themed names to make the whole thing seem more exciting and innovative, and I seem to remember a sentence along the lines of "This is not for anyone for whom token costs are an object." Obviously this was the coolest thing to have ever hit the orange site for a few weeks afterward.

what’s “the organge site”?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago
[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it was a terrible lie! i actually did knw that one

[-] theodoraward@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

GPT, mind, personality, imitation learning, Decision Transformer, Guardian Angel, AI mode collapse, AI safety, transhumanism


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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

🎶 we didn't start the fire 🎶

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