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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The error bars here are, of course, extremely large. Still,

[–] aio@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

Analyzing our data we conclude with 95% confidence that within a decade the Dyson Sphere Any% TAS time will be reduced below 55 seconds (± 1E10 years).

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 5 months ago

They're catching on that "big if true" is being recognized to mean "this is bullshit" so are trying to compensate by using more words.