If when you say “a human” you mean this is because you expect LW to be full of AI-generated text, their policy requires that chunks of language-model-written text go into special content blocks which are headed by the name of the model and rendered in a distinct sans-serif font, so that it can be used when it's useful while making it easier for readers to filter out. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nQWavk9mnwcv6ScMR/new-lesswr...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most similar thing I can think of is "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect". Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is way better and more comprehensive, imo.
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.
Yes
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.
That's at least how it begins.
I'll maybe read some more of it in the evening...
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.
Read by Leonard Nimoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcURKn2sf8
This does not help the cult accusations.
You can just do a quick scroll through the second page of 'new' to see how stories end up for people who dont.