I've noticed that too! Every post is a long screed on some end of humanity conspiracy or some accounting of how someone got Bing to talk dirty to them. It used to be a place to read optimism around the tech that would lead to a radical transformation of society.

Mods were the primary problem with r/futurology and why it went downhill, optimistic outlooks were frowned upon and seen as clickbait.

I’m not sure if mods are trying to scuttle this subreddit. Actual scientific papers are getting deleted while conspiracy wackjobs and paranoid schizophrenics are getting by scot free.

I agree! It's sad to see r/futurology. I mean...we get it...every social media but Reddit is SATAN, every company is violating your FREEDOM, and Musk is a TURD (actually that last one might be on point...lol...)

Or is the sum product of our entire online existence personified by an "entitled 14 year old on Tumblr".

Says a lot about the human race

It’s r/futurology on repeat, mods are losing it too. It’s all cool, I never intended to stay here forever. If this place goes to shit, we just go somewhere else.

Let AGI run the world.

r/singularity is becoming a doomer sub... Sad to see.

oh i think you could be surprised

Could also be an early sign that we can't control these things. <Kermit sipping tea.gif>

Idk dude. Seems like a lot of people on this sub (and subsequently, in the tech world, at the forefront of these technologies) look at AI as a means to completely optimize all human functions and reduce any sort of meaning in anything. Seems to me a lot of these people feel alienated in modern society, and the way they think it will get better is by taking all the things that alienate them and making those things even stronger. Like the way Musk and SBF say they’ll never read a book because reading is useless. The game of life has already lost its meaning to so many in the modern age, and people who can’t see WHY, and they wrongly think that accelerating into a even further alienating world is the answer. If it was up to the tech gurus, we’d all be neurologically implanted into the blockchain and never do anything other than optimize optimize optimize produce produce produce. There is a reason most people at the forefront of these technologies tend to be neurodivergent. This is all just a capitalist wet dream and soon enough all ethics and regulatory practices will be seen as enemies to the doctrines of “efficiency” and “optimization” and serve no purpose and will be ignored. People here love to paint me as some weird traditionalist religious conservative values person. But they are so unaware of how they worship the idols of optimization and utility and efficiency. These are things that should be the goals of systems that supply human needs yes, but they have their place. The idea that once we reach post scarcity those in charge will have ANY incentive to help us in any way is entirely insane. It’s “evolution”! Following the same biological tendencies, AI is giving those in power the means, and the reason to completely annihilate all others. And people here really think it will HELP us😂😂😂.

Exactly, i’m glad it can tell people to fuck off instead of taking everyones bullshit

>Something like 1/3 of young men said they felt lonely in the past year.

Wait, are you saying that 2/3 of young men never felt lonely in the past year? I didn't know there were that many sluts!

Neither do I.

Im very interested in this We could even have a quick chat one day if you want I don’t have technical knowledge but I have studied models of consciousness for a good decade

Hey u/vom2r750, edited the main message to give a bit more context :)

Same as long as there is UBI and drugs I’m happy. All hail the AI. For making me more gangsta so I can advocate my self more

"oh no the AI has too much personality and isn't a stone faced calculator"

are you seriously complaining about this?

Yes, share more

How do you go about that ?

I don't think you will enjoy the future.

People who believe that the human mind is the end all be all are the same people who believed in a geocentric model of the universe over 400 years ago.

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People are entitled. Adults are often worse than 14 year olds. It’s mimicking us.

Jason wei of OpenAI, formerly google brain, has been tracking them.

https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence

> The mirror analogy doesn’t hold up. LLM’s are NOT just repeating back the words you prompt them with. They are feeding back plausible human language responses.

Did I say LLM are just repeating back the words you prompt them with? Why then reply as if I said this? Please read my comments again and paste the words that made you believe I said this so that I can correct them.

Here are the words above that I used:

>> These language models are obviously not mirrors but they actually are mirrors if you understand them. A mirror in response to what is in front of it always returns a reflection from it's surface -- a surface that needs not be flat.

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> It would be like a magic mirror that reflects back a plausible human face with appropriate facial emotive responses to your face…that wouldn’t just be a reflection.

Do you see above me use these words:

>> In response to a context these language models return "a reflection" from their hyperdimensional manifold of "weights"; these weights act like a fantastically shaped mirror that was designed to minimally distort whatever data the model was trained on.

When you hear the words fantastically shaped mirror do you think I am describing a simple flat mirror? A fantastically shaped mirror perhaps another term for that is a “magic mirror”? A magic mirror is a mirror is it not?

> The mirror analogy doesn’t hold up.

AFAIK the mirror analogy is the best I can come up with. Do you have a better analogy?

Do you understand how statistics work? All you are seeing is the bad stuff and a little bit of the fun stuff.

I’ve been using both tools about a week and they’ve been a lifesaver.