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Re:The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has fa... by Vecr on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:19PM (#43120343)
It didn't immunize Eliezer Yudkowsky, and he wrote Markov chain fictional characters. Everyone who looked up AI enough times knew about ELIZA.
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Re:The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has fa... by EA-3167 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:24PM (#43120393)
He constructed an echo chamber with himself at the center and really lost himself in it; the power of people telling you that you're a visionary and a prophet can't be overstated. Ironically it followed a very familiar pattern, one described by a LessWrong term: "Affective Death Spiral".

And now we have AI death cults.

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