They are not influenced by culture or religion. Correct?

No

Apparently what I’m writing here is very easy to misunderstand. Obviously what I meant is what parents wish for their children - and it’s not sex work to pay the bills.

It is fundamental human nature and psychology to see sex and sex work as something not mundane. It carries special consequences and emotions and meaning. This has nothing to do with culture or religion and I very much doubt it can be changed through culture. Nor should it it be changed because of some “principle” you think is more important. It’s baked into us through millions of years of evolution and sexual selection. You could even call it one of the fundamental forces of life. A social forces that shaped every part of our culture, stories, politics.

I’m all for decriminalizing sex work and respecting people, but most sex workers would prefer to work in other fields if it wasn’t so profitable or they weren’t so desperate. Money is power and if you pay someone to do something it can be a form of coercion.

Personally I see being able to generate pornography and eventually replace sex work through artificial means as a fundamental advance in humanity’s ethical evolution. Similar to artificial meat and an end to slaughtering animals to eat them. A base desire that we can replace through technological means.

Yes, promotional mascots. Also maybe portable toilet cleaners. Roadkill collector? Crime scene cleaners? Broadcaster definitely. Restroom attendant also.

But seriously, do you think this is a controversial view? Do you think parents want (EDIT: their adult) children or friends to have to do sex work? Would anybody go “oh wow I’m so proud of you”? I do not think so. So lowering the demand and therefor supply pressure is overall a societal good.

You honestly don’t believe that there are sex workers who are relying on their job for a paycheck? Why?

No human should have to do sex work …

Well, lol. Theoretically with VR headsets and cyberdildonics like automatic fleshlights / masturbators it could come pretty close with the current technology. The kind of looks and environment and dirty talk you want. Obviously it would still be limited.

So AI generated VR porn with cyberdildonics actually could make much of sex work redundant. Theoretically this is a good thing. No human should have to do sex work or porn or onlyfans just for money to survive, if they don’t genuinely enjoy doing it. (EDIT)

China already regulated this so that AI chat bots must not create addiction. It’s probably a wise course to follow lol.

It’s very pretty and a worthwhile attempt, but personally I think it’s rather unreadable lol. All you need is four circles for the four major groups that defederate.

I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn’t surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb “roleplaying”, knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it’s real or not.

Personally I don’t get it, but whatever.

I mean that math is so far beyond me I have no clue if or how the proofs would “create anything” or lead to anything useful. I’m sure they do, besides adding a little bit to our civilization’s knowledge.

I do suspect that LLMs think very “broadly” with a very broad knowledge but can’t really reason very deep without training for a special problem. So rapidly trying different approaches does sound like how they do it. So maybe it is a little bit similar to a typing monkey except that it apparently did these proofs with a relatively limited budget.

Obama, Trump, Biden, but the interference in their country it really goes further back. Coups and interference literally in the name democracy. See Sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis - Wikipedia

I literally say when the shit with Venezuela started that a ton of “leftists” as in “left wing politics” or people still fans of Obama - they supported the US action against Venezuela. How does that make sense if they do not think the US is still a democratic country. If you think your country isn’t “A” and accuses another country of not being “A” you’d call it hypocritical and not believe it. But they did.

There is a serious disconnect there, and I believe it starts with doublethink or a type of disconnect where people know the US is not democratic, but still believe the US is democratic and fighting the good fight against “authoritarian” regimes.

It certainly ruined Venezuela, because liberals and leftists still believe the US is democratic and has the moral high ground to denigrate and interfere.

A polemic article that personally insults Hank Green instead of laying out a case. Brain melting AI psychosis indeed.

And liberals and leftists still support the narrative about Venezuela elections being unfair and that the US puppets should rule the country and turn it into a neoliberal hellhole. Including the Swedish Nobel price committee for empire advancement. They will never learn.

Depends how you define superintelligence, what I meant is a more specialized superintelligence than AGI. We already seen that with Go and Chess. But if AI overtakes humans in mathematics it takes on a different quality. But we will see. I doubt it stops here.

the machine churns, does some mystery math

Yeah, the sauce is in the mystery math. See my other reply. You’re making a category error.

It’s a “category error” like saying hydrodynamics are just quantum mechanics. It does not describe the complex emergent behavior and doesn’t really tell you anything. Or it’s like saying psychology is how the neurons and synapses connect with each and exchange signals and that is all - this would not explain the mental processes between a marmot and a human. So it’s not an accurate simplified description, just a description of the basic building blocks.

Afaik nobody knows how LLMs actually think, we only know sort of how to train them. They are researching how LLMs think with an equivalent to MRI brain scanning: Vista do LLM-MRI Python module: a brain scanner for LLMs

But they do plan to release the Astra model to the public “after it’s finished” I assume?

And yeah this Lean software sounds amazing, didn’t know this was possible.

I misread your last sentence in a way that create a different problem: Imagine AI starts producing more and more proofs at a pace that humans can’t keep up with. So science advances, and humans can even make use of it, but can’t verify or really understand the theory any more. Like we get better working machines, materials and processes, but do not understand why because we can’t keep up. If that happened then that I guess would a significant stage in the singularity.

I don’t understand enough about math and lean proofs - do you mean it’s possible nobody can interpret and explain how the proof goes in “human language”?

Holy shit. If an AI actually solves a Millennium Prize Problems we’re seriously entering superintelligence (but not AGI) territory.

In any case this should disprove the “AI is just a statistically typing monkey” theorem some AI skeptics are fond of.

For a laugh, yes sure do that lol.

Theoretically LLMs could be great as digital life assistant. IF there wasn’t a malicious corporation behind them. Like if you had an open source, locally run AI model that slowly gets to know you or your kids, remembers all the conversations, in it’s own encrypted storage that only you (or your kid) can access using a password of voice footprint. As AI models become smarter they could increasingly help manage your life. Or offer tips and coaching about your issues. Even positive reinforcement from an AI could help people grow as people - theoretically.

Obviously you don’t want a sycophantic LLM induce narcissism in your kids lol. But if I consider my confused childhood I can imagine some additional attention by an AI with broad knowledge could definitely have helped me.

Currently the attention of kids is largely influenced by algorithms and what is trending. The semi-intelligence of LLMs could provide a counterweight to that. There are studies that just altering the order of search results can change the outcome of political elections. The same is true for a million other things, just for maximizing ad revenue. Again local LLMs could help research and counteract such malicious influences. Instead of recommending a search result an AI agent could look up who owns the site, what history they have, how many falsehoods they published and what political messaging or harmful or deceptive propaganda they try to push when analyzing their talking points.

PS: Obviously you couldn’t trust an AI corporation like OpenAI with this, but you could use a modified open weights model for this and a non-profit financed by individual donations.

At least you can quickly filter out posts that are tagged. It takes much more energy to refute bullshit than spreading it (Brandolini’s law).

And users or networks that are spreading untagged fake content can get fined and social media will be strongly encouraged to ban such users. That depends on the enforcement of course.