Upcoming discussion with sociologist / statistician Jacy Reese Anthis

To what end? Yude was fine as a one-off, but is this going to be a thing?
Actually I hope it becomes a thing. Variety hour but the only topic is AI

I clicked on the dude's website and it immediately got stuck on a loading screen that looked like this:

is this what AF is gonna be now? Just platforming lesswrong and effective altruism cranks?

On 5/26/2023 at 11:22 AM, Shaddy said:

I clicked on the dude's website and it immediately got stuck on a loading screen that looked like this:

is this what AF is gonna be now? Just platforming lesswrong and effective altruism cranks?

It beats platforming righteous indignation cranks

Well I'm trying to figure where it's coming from that people think AI is going to become sentient, but I haven't heard any clear arguments that I think hold up to scrutiny yet, so I find it helpful being able to ask people this who can explain it directly so I can close the book on this one way or another.

For what it's worth, I have about half a dozen people in the future where it won't be about AI, so this is just kind of winding down after the last talk.

Half a dozen other people to talk to? Man, how did these interviews come about? I can understand gaming-related chats or discussions about the legality of killing games, but how'd this all kick off? Was it all because of that one Q&A chat with the fans and it snowballed from there?

On 5/27/2023 at 2:48 AM, RocketDude said:

Half a dozen other people to talk to? Man, how did these interviews come about?

I, for one, find this a great idea. For as long as Ross's channel existed, an ongoing problem was to fill the gaps between "main" videos (as you probably know, this is exactly how Freeman's Mind came to existence). I always thought that gaming streams would be a nice solution, but Ross was concerned that they don't have enough long-lasting value. So, now we might actually get a source of videos which both (a) don't take much effort to produce and (b) have long-lasting value.

Besides, Ross is a really good interviewer, as long as he is genuinely interested in the topic being discussed, and he has just enough subscribers for his channel to be a lucrative platform for serious™ guests.

I'm happy to see Ross alongside other people, I just don't love his recent choice of company -- granted, there's plenty of much worse fearmongering and apocalyptic conspiracy theories he could be platforming than AI stuff, I just hope it stays away.

On 5/27/2023 at 12:05 PM, Shaddy said:

I just don't love his recent choice of company

I'm counting on those "half a dozen people in the future where it won't be about AI", and hope that "this is just kind of winding down after the last talk".

I really think you should watch this playlist by Computerphile to understand some problems with AI :D Probably already suggested by someone somewhere.

Meanwhile, Adobe Firefly neural network revealed what was outside the camera's view on Jason Statham's photo.