"Oh, dash it! I didn't mean to delete your project, I've been in such a dreadful funk today. So sorry."

I don't understand these frantic money people, but I do understand if you can figure out how to not be the greater fool you can make a lot of money. Seems kinda dumb this is how innovation is funded.

We've been projecting both FTL and AGI as future possibilities for almost 100 years now. Do LLMs get us a lot closer to AGI? I think they get us a little closer and Moore's "law" making compute faster probably is a much bigger factor, but I think we're still a very very long ways away.

Its like being back in 1850 and you build the world's first amusement park where the rides are free or very cheap. People are like Amusement parks are the next big thing since Steam Boats! And tons of other rich people start to build huge amusement parks everywhere. The people who are skilled at making amusement park rides will increase their prices, and since the first amusement parks are free so they can get the public going to them demand will be huge.

But how sustainable is that? - well obviously we know from history that amusement parks did, in fact, take over the world and most people spent virtually all their time and money at amusement parks - I think the Crimean War was even fought over some religious-based theme park in Israel - until moving pictures came out, so it worked out for them, but for AI?

- but also there aren't many good alternatives for us. Say you have 3 people running for senate to choose from. Canidate A and B have super PACs that spend $80 million each on ads. Canidate C doesn't. You could vote for canidate C, but he will likely lose - nobody sees anything about them, they can't employ many people to work their campaign, they don't get interviewed on tv. It feels better to vote for someone who has a chance to win. Also candiate A is a nutjob who thinks we should take over Tierra del Fuego as our 51st state and all young boys should have a year where their schooling is just learning how to throw knives really good like a Ninja, so you really want them to lose - you pretty much have to vote for Canidate B.

I guess they figure if they keep trying they'll eventually get it passed - which is probably true.

Why are so many bi-partisan bills so bad?

For example a lot more people would sue eachother for petty things if it suddenly became very easy and cost efficiant. Its not, so they dont.

Another example of AI doing this exact type of thing in another realm: In the past convincing someone you were somebody they should give money to for a scam was very possible to do, but also difficult and not very cost efficiant. You could try to impersonate someone's daughter or a police officer, but it took a lot of effort to get it right.

Now, with voice mimicking ai, deepfakes, social media to mine for personal info, etc its not as difficult and so, very likely, its becoming a bigger problem than it was.

To me it seems a LOT of a stretch to think that the people behind grok belived their safty controls worked, but you can belive that if you wish. Deepfakes of non-consenting adults were trending on X all the time, elon even appears to have shared them himself, which is pretty bad even if they're all just adults, and I'm sure you belive that they belived the AI could tell the difference between an underage person and an adult perfectly, although it seems clear they didn't test it very much.

And they can copy a lot of features from the better, cheaper chinese cars and just sell them for 3x as much in the american market because they have no competition here and the chinese are barred from selling their cars here.

Still, even if the are real it doesn't mean their company should be valued at 21x Ford's value, or even 1x Ford's.

Do you think people who mention grok creating CSAM is a holier-than-thou attitude? Do you not think the people who ignore that are worse than other people?

But I wonder if there's one out there that I don't know about with a different kind of training that actually is good at writing and fun to talk to for a long time. (granted somepeople love talking to gpt 4, but also some people loved talking to ELIZA so clearly some people have a super high tolerance for slop.)