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Applause lights galore.
Yudkowsky was complaining about this meaningless stuff back in 2007
Here is the pretend speech he gave, consisting of nothing but applause lights:
That's basically what they're saying in this. But some of it is even worse than that. I polluted my hard drive by downloading their 'paper':
I swear I'm not making this up. It's not all that bad, but if there's only a little bit of shit in my meal, I won't eat the rest of it (even if you remove the shit). What sort of cook lets shit get into the meal? What else is there that I've missed? Who let Kamala Harris's speechwriters get their hands on a crayon?
Another thing I observed from the 'ethics' page is what looks like a potential 'three laws':
AI must not discriminate against people
AI must serve humanity
AI must sustain the environment (including agriculture)
3a. AI must tell people when they're dealing with AI
3b. AI must not exploit people
Yes, they're not even organized enough to decide whether they want three requirements, four or five. I would've thought that telling AI to sustain the environment would include having it deal with agriculture - but I suppose that needed special emphasis. I would've thought serving humanity included not exploiting us.
A more technological future! A more technological future! I help proofread useless books that few will read and I do it to a higher standard than this. They can't even string a sentence together and they want to impose their ideology on the world for all eternity? I hope Gnon or some powerful entity punishes these people. I hope someday they realize just how out of their depth they are. Apologies for getting less and less courteous but this paper really does make me angrier the longer I spend with it.
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