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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by CobrastanJorji on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:02PM (#30182278)
What is a "Yuddite?" I tried Googling for it and got the impression it was LessWrong forum terminology for people who believed too strongly in LessWrong, but I couldn't find many references.
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by nikkwong on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:14PM (#30182483)
I believe he's referring to "luddites" -- a group of people who resisted technological innovation during the industrial revolution.
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by indiv0 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:57PM (#30183123)
Luddite but mixed with "Eliezer Yudkowsky" who is a researcher working on the problem of friendly AI (or whatever they're calling it these days). Basically trying to prevent skynet.

The GP is saying that once we have AGI, then "AGI is going to make the human race irrelevant" outweighs "AGI makes software devs irrelevant".

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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by qualudeheart on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:19PM (#30183423)
That’s the idea.
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Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode by qualudeheart on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:17PM (#30183383)
I am a follower of Elizier Yudkowsky.
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