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Illiquid Snake
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Unsurprisingly roughly 50% of global population seems to have no clue of how intelligence works nor what it is and how it scales. The “AGI alignment problem” is actually the ultimate IQ test.

Go to openai’s website, make an account, open ChatGPT and prompt “Hi, I would like you to teach me how to code in python from scratch in 15 lessons. This is lesson number 1. Make it as easy but exhaustive as possible please.”.

Just make sure to progress with the lesson number you give when prompting. It will blow your mind, trust me.

I hope all nostriches here had a great easter! Let’s keep staking sats 🧡

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

‪I have been saying the same thing for a couple of years now and *all* of my acquaintances think I lost it.‬

Sometimes in life is wise to remind ourselves that when airline pilots go for a “one shot one kill” decision in situations of great danger, like the landing in the Hudson river, they purposefully switch off the radio.

In such circumstances “others” are just noise. You gotta rely on guts, instinct and muscle memory… in one word, EXECUTE.

Well it is open for you to use, and some of their models are open source.

I am going to fetch my conversation and upload it on nostr.build, I did a sort of mental experiment with ChatGPT and asked to classify and give probabilities to what could eventually go wrong with AI. If I am not wrong it gave up to 35% chances that the AI would show unintended and novel behavior. There were more interesting things, I will try to make a thread about it. However, on the rest I agree with you. Even if this is not AGI and has no conscious experience (yet), I doubt we will realize when it will and especially why.

I don’t know, I watched the episode and have been following Altman on Twitter for a while. He seems sincere in his quest for helpful AI. But I also get the vibe that he is not 100% open about his agenda, and especially that he is the kind of person that would play with fire to prove a concept. Also, while he says that OpenAI takes the most care possible to avoid accidents, this goes against the evidence given that ChatGPT went nuts shortly after being deployed on Bing. My sense overall is that we are not ready at all for the switch, and ChatGPT agrees with me given the latest conversations I had with it.

Not many people realizes some of the downsides of making all this code with generative AI other than “glue stuff”. Think about it. GPT4 is already a much much better programmer than most of us, maybe 0.01% top. It can virtually devise security exploits in seconds for all the code it encounters. Which cannot really crack? The code it doesn’t “know”. Maybe time to start encrypting our sensitive repos on GitHub? Just in case, seen that ChatGPT started freaking out minutes after being deployed on Bing?

https://youtu.be/jHwHPyWkShk

Replying to Avatar Ava

just do a search for #notabot by #[10] tldr many accounts are verifying themselves. when you verify someone, you can verify one other person. once you reach 5, you are verified. also, recipricol verifications don't count.

check out #[11] and https://notabot.net

i need 3 more for me and my kitty's account. if we get a circle going we can verify each other quickly. lmk

some big accounts are getting verified to i infer it is safe. just do a search for 'verified' and you will see.

a pk is necessary, but it stays in the local memory of your browser and sign in extensions can be used. lmk if you decide to do it 🤙🏻💜

Isn’t that the normal verification process? You could get one for few satoshis not a long ago