• Peanut
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    1 year ago

    Gary marcus is the last person I would consider for a statement on the topic.

    No offense intended, but Gary marcus is a hack and a joke. He is a very small step above the yud, and neither will contribute to the safety or development of this technology in any way.

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        1 year ago

        marcus is a well known figure for being heavily critical of AI while also being comedically uninformed. much like the yud

        i would like to have greater consideration for their opinions, but i find it difficult due to the often unfounded nature of their speculation. for marcus personally, i’ve seen him make arguments woefully out of touch with current information. this is why i describe him as being comedically uninformed.

        wish the best for the guy, although i disagree with them both to the degree i find their reasoning childish and dangerous. the yud moreso.

        and to the person assuming “yud” being racist for no reason, please get some help. he is an individual. i’m sure his harry potter fanfics are quality, and i mean no ill to the gentleman other than disagreeing strongly with his opinions on AI.

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          1 year ago

          what in particular shows that Gary Marcus is uniformed? I dislike him because he’s dogmatic and petty but I haven’t seen a specific thing he’s been wrong about, but I’d love examples.

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      I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his “AI” research even then. It’s scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that “true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country”.

      For the other poster lower down, I’d almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it’s painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that’s even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.

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      not being as plugged in as need be, i’m unsure of the term “yud”, and knowing that marcus is jewish, and that the term “yid” is one of degradation and antisemitism, regardless of how well the term “yud” may or may not apply here, i ask you to refrain from using it when commenting on or about someone who’s jewish. there’s enough jew hate going around these day.

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        1 year ago

        He just means Eliezer Yudkowsky, to quote David Gerard, “a man whose sole achievements in life are charity fundraising — getting Peter Thiel to fund his Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a research institute that does almost no research — and finishing a popular Harry Potter fanfiction novel. Yudkowsky has literally no other qualifications or experience.”

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        1 year ago

        Downpunx not happy with only cheering for genocide, finds himself making up new excuses to cry “antisemitism” at the wind.