@jlliagre nazis already stress me out.
@CowperKettle There's a cliche said about a small enclosed place "There's not enough room in here to swing a dead cat."
Or "You can't swing a dead cat in The Boston area without hitting a doctor"
(there are a lot of doctors in the Boston area.)
And yet if you're new to the area it's hard to find an available PCP because every other doctor is a cardiologist or brain surgeon, and the rest that are 'family practice' (general practitioner/doctor you visit for checkups/ your supposed main access to health care) they have all converted to 'concierge' service, which is some weird rich people shit like they live on a yacht and call their personal physician to give them propofol to make it through the next attempt to buy Greenland.
(because there's no money in helping everyday people, but also you deal all day with people who just want free samples of pain meds)
OK, I just filled up my qupta of cynicism for today. Every thing after this has to be earnest.
Oh wow... did I just only realize that the title of the play is a pun on Earnest the name and earnest as in sincere? Also the plot (no spoiler) is about the character Earnest pretending to be another person.
Which is not exactly a lack of sincerity, more an actual straight out, bald-faced lie.
@CowperKettle 1) way way way ... {many "way"s)... way too long. An AI summary is too long.
An AI summary of the AI summary is shorter, maybe still too long, and is mostly platitudes.
An AI summary of the AI summary of the AI summary is just right in length but says nothing at all.
2) maybe I'll get to listening to some more of it (I got about 5 minutes in when I saw that it is a total of 4 hrs long)
3) Wow I wouldn't expect to see those two guys together. There only connection is that they're both controversial commenters on AI.
3a) Yudkowsky is famous for...I still don't know (even when knowing a lot about him). Is the the ultimate AI-doomer (AI is going to kill us all pretty soon (< 5 years) unless we take drastic action now). His topic of interest (AI doom) seems to be the only thing he talks about for the past 5-10 years. In some sense he is 'just' a blogger (he's not a researcher/academic or a government policy expert).
3b) Wolfram on the other hand was a mathematics/physics wunderkind in the 80s and developed the computer algebra system Mathematica (which is an awesome artifact of technical achievement). He is more famous though for promoting cellular automata (eg various forms of Conway's Game of Life and using these in his magnum opus 'A New Kind of Science' which claims that the universe is a computer...which in the end i) is not particularly new, and ii) you can't really do any new science with it.
(ie he's a bit of a self promoter)
His company has been adding a lot to Mathematica (basically a very flexible query system plus a compendium of factual data) so that you can ask it things compare the birth rates of India and Sweden from 1900 to 2000 (in addition to all the math things like what is the intergral of e^(-x^2) )
So Wolfram has a bit of interest in saying that Mathematica is a bit like ChatGPT in answering questions, but it's likely going to be more correct than ChatGPT.
So you can see how Wolfram and Yudkowsky, while both interested in AI, I just would not expect them in the same room.
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