Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

The seahorse emoji remains my favorite for showing how LLMs are completely incapable of handling obviously false information in their training data.

Sam Altman is in the singularity, in that he is now convinced LLMs are smarter than him

I'm reminded of a quote that used to always come up when I was studying cryptography. Bruce Schneier would always remind people that it's easy to design an encryption scheme that you can't break. But it's hard to design an encryption scheme that nobody else can break, either.

It is a good reminder that there needs to be a degree of intellectual humility by those who want to design big systems that affect the whole world.

@Soyweiser @dgerard
The existence of light cones implies the existence of full-cream cones

Getting a T-Shirt that says “I entered the Singularity and all I got was a plagiarism machine, a higher cost of living and this stupid T-Shirt”

@Soyweiser @dgerard You can't get all of the shiny cyberpunk over-the-top special effects when you syphoned the budget into the stockholders' debauchery fund.

@Soyweiser @dgerard

What if Musk is the financial singularity?

First he's a trillionaire, next year he has 2 trillion, the year after that 4 trillion, and so on, until he owns more dollars than have ever existed, at which point the US treasury collapses into a black hole and is never seen again.