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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 19:56:38 JST tante

   If you want to understand the whole OpenAI thing, this article is super helpful because it explains that OpenAI is not a real research organization or tech company like the ones we know: It's a cult. It's basically Scientology 2.0.

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   "The consequences are what you might expect when a crowd of bright but rather naive (and occasionally creepy) computer science and adjacent people try to re-invent theology from first principles, to model what human-created gods might do, and how they ought be constrained. They include the following, non-comprehensive list: all sorts of strange mental exercises, postulated superhuman entities benign and malign and how to think about them; the jumbling of parts from fan-fiction, computer science, home-brewed philosophy and ARGs to create grotesque and interesting intellectual chimeras; Nick Bostrom, and a crew of very well funded philosophers; Effective Altruism, whose fancier adherents often prefer not to acknowledge the approach’s somewhat disreputable origins."

   https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-scientology-to-understand

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     Alexander Hamizdat for Harris (alexhammy@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 20:06:44 JST Alexander Hamizdat for Harris

     • phiofx

     @phiofx @tante or maybe we don't need openai **or** an alternative.

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     Alexander Hamizdat for Harris (alexhammy@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 20:46:26 JST Alexander Hamizdat for Harris

     • phiofx

     @phiofx @tante well put.