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  • He didn’t say that.

    This article is based on an essay Altman wrote 9 years ago where he claims that humanity’s only hope of survival is to merge with AI and transcend into a new, transhuman species.

    Look, I fucking hate Sam Altman. He represents everything that’s wrong with the Tech industry, and is also a pretty good example of everything that’s wrong with capitalism writ large. Sam sucks. He lies, he cheats, he steals. But lying about Altman does not help the anti-AI cause. It just muddies the message and gives bad actors more shit to stir. And besides… it’s not like we have to make shit up about the guy to make him look bad. There’s SO much crazy shit he actually did say that you can point to instead.

    I’m reporting this post to the mods as misinformation, and I hope others do too. AI sucks. Sam sucks. But we have to tell the truth, or we’re no better than they are.



  • CEOs get paid an exorbitant amount of cash, so naturally they assume that their work is valuable and that they must be very intelligent because surely only highly-intelligent people can produce such highly-valued output.

    Then along comes a machine that can do the two things that CEOs believe represent the height of intelligence: talk at length about random bullshit, and make vibes-based decisions. Of course CEOs are going to buy into the hype and assume this technology is genuinely intelligent, it’s very good at CEO things and CEOs are very smart! From there it takes very little effort to convince them that this is the technology of the future and that soon it will ‘transform’ the workplace, replace workers, etc



  • LLMs are notoriously bad at math.

    Or rather, they’re completely incapable of it. Even the most “advanced” AI systems basically just say “hmm… I think this might be a math problem” and then pass the data into a regular math API to do the calculation.

    But a simple summarization bot isn’t going to be wired up for calling a bunch of external tools, so… yeah, it just spits out an answer that looks statistically correct without having any real bearing on reality.