This is why paying the ransom should carry the same sentence as the original hack itself.

The official title is Senior Prompt Engineer.

It's funny coz this was what humans were supposed to be doing in techno-utopia, while AI does all the boring stuff. I don't think many predicted art and theoretical math would be first to fall to the machines.

The next few years are gonna be very rough for the human exceptionalism crowd.

In fairness this is the boring stuff for a lot of people. :-)

Replacing someone's words with a made up quote so you can dunk on them isn't how you display that you won an argument. I would ask that you engage in good faith with the other poster's ideas.

You cannot engage in good faith in a stupid argument. You can only point out it's stupid.

Yeah, right. Why the fuck those "Atlanteans" chose to fight over the land that is literally the farthest point from any major sea? You know that Uzbekistan is a double-land-locked country?

Anyway, people don't really consider consciousness when it comes to welfare. I'm pretty sure animals are conscious, and look at factory farming.

The key variable people consider is: Can this thing harm me back?

Even that is rarely the deciding factor (people harm dangerous animals for fun).

Seems as simple as "will this action bring social shame/criticism" for any individual decision.

> Can this thing harm me back?

We extend moral considerations or legal protections to beings that have zero capacity to harm us back, though. The inability to fight back is the reason a lot of welfare protections exist in the first place.

That aside, if (and that's a really big if) we end up with a model that is sentient, as in has the capacity to suffer, using factory farming as justification to ignore model welfare is just admitting we intend to repeat the same abject moral failure again in the name of economic convenience.

I hope that we won't, but humans love cheap meat, and will probably love cheap intelligence as well.

So many people post things like "Why would the AI want to kill us"

Girllllll, have you looked at us, of course they will, we're bastards.

Let's not pull on that string.

Google can make themselves the heroes of the AI story by releasing a 120B dense Gemma model.

They already released the transformers paper, and I'm sure they are now scratching their head about it.

If it was up to Dario we'd all be banned from using open-weight models, and we'd have to be investigated for PRC connections before sending our allotted five API queries a week.

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