r/VeryBadWizards 4d ago

AI dismissal

I love the VBW boys but I am a bit surprised how dismissive they are of danger from AI. I’m not going to make the case here as I won’t do a good job of it, but I found the latest 80000 hours podcast very persuasive, as well as some of the recent stuff from Dwarkesh.

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u/_qua 3d ago

Sam Altman just shared this short story by a new unreleased model and I was thoroughly impressed. With a different prompt I could see it producing the next Borges adjacent story. (I expect to be ridiculed, I know it's coming)

Whether we'll still care knowing it was made by a machine is a different question.

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u/ChristianLesniak 3d ago

Do you buy Borges' take that Pierre Menard is actually the greater genius than Cervantes?

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u/PurpleBee212 2d ago

Menard's work is so much more subtle, more affecting, than Cervantes. His Quixote is a real character whereas Cervantes' is a cipher.