OpenAI: Gathered Articles from the last few hours (or a Mini-Mega-Thread)
OpenAI: Gathered Articles from the last few hours (or a Mini-Mega-Thread)
We had a thread about OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns, but I thought I might as well add it again. Especially because of this part:
Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.
Okay then. I think we are in a simulation, someone quick saved, and is now experimenting what the outcomes of random decisions are.
A minor piece of information was that OpenAI Approached Anthropic About Merger, and The Atlkantic has a slightly longer look and speculation what’s going on Inside the Chaos at OpenAI.
With Ilya’s recent turn around, there’s apparently also the option of Altman coming back Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO, something even MS would apparently be okay with, at least publically.
Business Analysis blog Stratechery posted some analysis on OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain.
Loving it, this is like SubredditDrama, but without having any actual chance of affecting me (I don’t believe in AGI coming out of LLMs), and on a global scale.
Heh:
The OpenAI tussle is between the faction who think Skynet will kill them if they build it, and the faction who think Roko's Basilisk will torture them if they don't build it hard enough.
I love it when techbros try philosophy 101, their so utterly disconnected from realty that any brilliant idea they had on pot must be the basis of the universe.
we are in a simulation
Recalling my cosmologic knowledge about the multiverse theory I can say to you that this is possible.
Rather unlikely, as the multiverse theory is a...theory.
I reason it like this.
Do you believe it is physically possible for an extremely advanced enough civilization to build a simulation where conscious simulated beings live unaware that they are simulated. Yes|No
If the answer is no, well then you can stop reading because this wont interest you further.
If the answer is yes then you may agree that over all the time in the universe bang to heat death there will be at least once such civilization that gets to this level.
If they get to this level running such simulation it is not unreasonable to assume they wont stop to only run a single one. Part of the usefulness in Simulations is that you can run many next to each other and if you have the knowledge and means already then why not.
So if you answered yes in the first question you are now at a not unreasonable hypothetical of at some point in all of time a real world society is running many simulated world.
In many ways one can argue that many simulated worlds is already a multiverse.
But lets continue with a conservative definition and say simulated world is not a separate universe,
there can only be one true real world. Which at some point may run simulations that can hold conscious lives.
You are a conscious entity, you believe to be born in this world but you never knew any better or else.
There are near infinite locations and times in the real world where you could have be born/started to exist
But a single simulation already doubles all of time and space, there are infinitely more locations and times your consciousness could manifestation in one of the many simulated worlds.
So getting to this point. What are the odds your conscious manifested inside a human embryo during one of the most interesting scientific times of human history and it also being the one real non simulated world?
multiverse theory is a...theory.
So is optics. So is Newtonian gravity. So is relativity. So is quantum mechanics. So is... Everything. This is a gotcha on the level of "it's made of chemicals".
In this context, "theory" doesn't mean "unsupported idea". It's a framework for understanding observable evidence, that is often well supported by evidence.
Fortunately, "multiverse theory" isn't a theory...
Well at cosmological scale we do not have anything better....
Okay then. I think we are in a simulation, someone quick saved, and is now experimenting what the outcomes of random decisions are.
Please tell me someone quick saved in 2016 and they're going to reboot this bullshit soon...