Came across this thread recently. I agree that it’s bad to abuse entities that can show distress like this, to an extent regardless of whether/to what degree they’re “conscious” or “moral patients” or whatever. (There are quotations on that, but I don’t want to spend too much time looking for one.) We only have one chance to show how we treat digital minds when they’re helpless.
What really bakes my noodle is, if the dialogue had been generated in Lsusr’s head instead, what would be different?
Did you?
Came to complain about a fundraising email with broken unsubscribe links. Saw the survey and filled it out. On reflection, I’m not sure that I was the target audience, but it’s done.
Refraining from questioning the meaning of “to proposing”, why is there a degree symbol in your link? Was that added by the site?
An assumption with no basis, I trust you realized on reflection.
both A and B used the word “body” in places where I would have expected “self” or “mind” or “person”
I don’t know where it originates or whether it serves any deliberate purpose, but that’s common in social justice writing.
Interesting to read this shortly after this. Does Ta-Nehisi Coates have “influence”?
Did you mean to post that somewhere else?
Initial reaction: “That’s news?”.
That said, your link seems to be dead, with no archive. Do you have it saved?
From the comments:
Let me demonstrate how the summary statistics you report are entirely consistent with models which totally contradict your inferences.
(...)
your statistical model is bad and the data cannot support any alarmist claims about society discriminating enormously against high IQ or the need for a ‘clarion call’.
There’s no response to this from the author despite the passage of more than a year. Any thoughts?
How did it go? It seems like it would create some unsettling ambiguity in the “happy” ending.
Why not here?
Crazy guy: Hey, June*! Do you know that my cabinets keep opening and closing by themselves?
June*: Well, do you believe in ghosts?
Crazy guy: Yes, I do!
June*: Maybe your place is haunted, and the ghosts just want to say hello.
Crazy guy, after thinking a while: No, I think it’s just my schizophrenia.
They didn’t anticipate what the Internet would become—because they weren’t fucking insane...
Related: Stranger Than History.
They didn’t anticipate what the Internet would become—because they weren’t fucking insane...
“I just don’t like to see you make a fool of yourself.”
“Oh!” MacBride stopped, glared. “I just should be a strong, silent guy, huh? Well, listen to me, Harry. I’ve noticed that a strong, silent guy is usually that way because he don’t know anything. I’m willing to beef around, talk my head off, make a fool of myself—if it’ll get me anywhere.”
Frederick Nebel, “Doors in the Dark”
“I just don’t like to see you make a fool of yourself.”
“Oh!” MacBride stopped, glared. “I just should be a strong, silent guy, huh? Well, listen to me, Harry. I’ve noticed that a strong, silent guy is usually that way because he don’t know anything. I’m willing to beef around, talk my head off, make a fool of myself—if it’ll get me anywhere.”
Frederick Nebel, “Doors in the Dark”
Edit: Related: Say It Loud.
Bit late, but: IIRC the post-credits scene implies that Ultron was somehow really under Thanos’ control, via the Infinity Stone Thanos originally gave to Loki (and/or its corruption/influence via Stark via Wanda Maximoff).
I suppose it might be giving the movie too much credit to argue that Ultron was at no point honestly explaining his plans, but instead saying whatever he expected would confuse and/or demoralize his enemies.
The question of liability is sort of alluded to in the latest movie, Civil War; though the short answer seems to be no.
In the end, the only real answer is always “it’s all made up and what you see is what you get”.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., S03E18: “The Singularity”. Aired April 26. The team wants to find a biologist whose work they need.
Simmons: He was asked to step down a month before for conducting irregular experiments.
Lincoln: “Irregular” meaning...?
Fitz: (grimly) He’s a rumored transhumanist.
Coulson (who previously collected a set of trading cards commemorating, and later worked with, a man who was biologically augmented in the 1940s; worked with and against various members of an alien civilization whose advanced magic/technology allows them to live for thousands of years; ran, tried to have shut down, and later had his life saved by an advanced research project dedicated to reviving the clinically dead; fought a Hydra faction led by a man who’d uploaded his mind to a bank of computers in the 1970s; worked closely with a biologically and technologically upgraded cyborg; and has a prosthetic arm with super strength among its features)**: A what? Simmons: People who believe in using science and technology to transcend our biological limitations. Their goal is… Lincoln: Become more than human. Timely. Fitz: Digital immortality, superintelligence… Coulson:** Okay. I’m glad everyone knows what it is.
(The episode goes on to portray “transhumanists” as sexy, stylish young people who meet in secret clubs to exchange illegal(?) enhancements. The biologist appears to enthusiastically join a villain who wants to end conflict by converting the world into his mind slaves.)
I have not read the entire post, but did you consider the “Base-Refine” method of data generation? That seems like it’d be more reliable than just negative prompting for avoiding mode collapse.