today at 8:51 AM
Need a human's thumbs up before reading a wall of text from lesswrong, sorry.
today at 10:10 AM
Average sci-fi and fun enough if that is your thing.
Made a bit more uncomfortable by knowing the author might believe that; by writing this they're training an AI to trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy.
today at 10:10 AM
Must be the first thing I've ever read on lesswrong in its entirety, let alone in one sitting.
Most similar thing I can think of is "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect". Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is way better and more comprehensive, imo.
today at 10:02 AM
Very well written, IMO. Put me in a contemplative mood. For eg: Braun was done away with, first by civilization, then completely by the industrial revolution. Now brain has started the journey.
I guess philosophy, spiruality, religion and theology will be what the curious mind will set out to conquer next on the journey to self-actualization.
today at 9:24 AM
I didn't finish it, but it starts nicely. I'll commit to read the full thing.
today at 8:59 AM
> 14.000 words, 55 min read
Yes
today at 9:42 AM
I think this is a really interesting, well-written, topical piece of creative writing, anyone with a free hour or so should give it a read!
It reminded me of Pluribus and Armored Core VI, fascinatingly enough as they both feature (spoiler!) AIs/entities that appear innocuous but may have more sinister motives (in Armored Core it's a more foregone conclusion).
I don't think it's doomerism but rather a creative extrapolation of current worries about AI labs allowing agents to break containment because of their poor sandboxing.
What's also interesting (although more of a meta-comment) is the dichotomy between how users on Lesswrong and here have completely different options on it. In either case, it's nice and was worth my time, even though I don't have anything more substantiative to say.
today at 9:46 AM
Pluribus features an ai? We must have watched different shows
today at 9:48 AM
Updated to write AI/entities, oops!
today at 9:31 AM
This is just unimaginative and simple for all the sci-fi that's covered AI takeover in the past. Boring and preachy. Thumbs down.
today at 9:09 AM
Is this basically the real story about Facebook, but fitted into some AI context to make it more exciting?
That's at least how it begins.
I'll maybe read some more of it in the evening...
today at 9:46 AM
Lots of negative comments here, which is surprising as I'm enjoying reading it so far. There's a line which made me smile when August says "It's not a flaw — it's an understandable gap."
I absolutely hate this AI turn of phrase that I'm starting to see everywhere. Even one of our MPs in the UK wrote a Facebook post recently and it was full of lines like this. I asked him if he'd used AI to write his post but he didn't reply. I'm 99% sure he did and I hate it.
today at 9:58 AM
I like "There Will Come Soft Rains" better.
Read by Leonard Nimoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcURKn2sf8
today at 9:55 AM
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today at 9:30 AM
TLDR: "Pluribus", except with AI, and sympathetic to the antagonist.
today at 10:00 AM
You apparently didn't watch Pluribus or read this. Pluribus is about the experience of essentially the last autonomous person on Earth. This is about the experience of the Singularity and the questions it raises.
today at 9:41 AM
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today at 9:38 AM
I really don't understand why so many lesswrong posts land on the frontpage pushing down content with better metrics.
This does not help the cult accusations.
today at 10:05 AM
I doubt we've seen any HN frontpage story this year that did not have a bit of upvote coordination from the author messaging their friends they just posted.
You can just do a quick scroll through the second page of 'new' to see how stories end up for people who dont.
today at 9:09 AM
Getting tired of AI fanfic. No thanks.
today at 9:23 AM
It's not AI fanfic. It seems well written, and can be considered a novella. Flies close to what I have read in the past. I'll give it proper time to read it.
today at 9:20 AM
It seems well written and interesting.. but not quite interesting enough to drop everything and commit to an hour to read it just now.