Alexis Glass @mutagene

mutagene.bandcamp.com Joined May 2008

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 days ago

@hthieblot Planescape: Torment

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Did covid totally destroy empathy? I see "skills issue" used ubiquitously to dismiss people who are losing their jobs or can't/won't keep up with AI. Never mind empathy; how about just self preservation? Skills issue or not, you can't explode unemployment without consequences.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 weeks ago

@bdquinn Prompting is work. Refining a vision is definitely work. But cloning is not. "Like this other game" might be tricky, but arbitrarily close is easy (though it may cost tokens).

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 weeks ago

@_diemilio_ @Austen Whole family smokes. The ad is actually selling cigarettes.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 weeks ago

@HumanitasPrima @gmiller Alignment seems even harder for elites. Not that I believe it's possible or meaningful, anyway, but to try to convince an ASI that humans are intrinsically valuable, but asset-owning elites more so than others? What could go wrong?

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

3 weeks ago

@quasicoh Isn't "centaur math" precisely what mathematicians like Terence Tao were advocating for before OpenAI decided to hit turbo? I don't see how you can fault the mathematicians for having normal human limitations like only possessing one concurrent instance running at 1x.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

4 weeks ago

@harurinpics @deniz_people @gaijinthoughts IMO it is hard to find an analogy which fully captures the capriciousness of the new guidelines. "Actually, we require all customers and their families to have only entered wearing red for the past three years. Your husband violated this rule last year."

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

4 weeks ago

@tapir_worf @viemccoy I'm not clear on how misanthropes (or degrowthists!?) think any kind of successor is going to be any better for the biosphere than humans given that it/they will be considerably less reliant on it. We may be bad stewards, but at least we pay a price for failure.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

4 weeks ago

@creanu1 @magnushambleton Why would one assume anything, positive or negative? I would imagine a true ASI could communicate to any level - but would it? How is this knowable? Would you really stake your life on assuming that it would? If so, why?

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

a month ago

@DakotaChambers @igor_alexandrov @dhh I agree. I haven't heard an actual argument for it. I feel like it's supposed to be appealing precisely because it is inhuman. But AI also benefits from abstractions - and from a compiler that will e.g. generate deterministic outputs for x64, arm64 - and NEON and AVX2, and wasm..

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

a month ago

@vishalmisra @lennypruss "All of them depend on irrational actions by _humans_ with a lot of authority" So we really are doomed, then.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

a month ago

@Tounsi_CHF In a Swiss sense: like at Manor or like Denner? The number of times I've had my backpack checked at Denner - I don't think trust is on the menu. All countries have customs and if you act outside those customs and you are liable to attract attention. Japan has different customs.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

makou.com/mutagene-xorad… 🙏 オートメーション可能な項目、多いんですけど、減らそうとすると、思うように動かなくなります。つまり、モード毎のパラメーターをオートメーション可能にしたいし、自由にモードも変えられるようにしたいわけです。掛け算すると、かなりの数になっちゅうんですが。

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

Bought something for Bandcamp Friday? Get a discount on a quirky resynthesising drum machine: dsp.mutagene.net/bandcamp-frida… (sorry for the double post)

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Ronnie / Rekkerd.org @rekkerd

2 months ago

Mutagene releases Xoradora resynthesizing drum machine (open beta) rekkerd.org/mutagene-relea…

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

@halvarflake Reminds me of Spoorloos . I hope he's never wondered if he's a good person or not.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

@aravosis How are LLMs different from people? I can't see that as a serious question, but trying to: for one thing, you're alive to talk about it - and could even betray your patrons' confidence at some point. Or write a memoir later about the subjective experience of being a ghostwriter.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

@optionscaller @RnaudBertrand Yes, would agree with the first part - but in fairness, Carney never said it was just one demand or another (even if he did highlight 3). Rather, he said it was the cumulative effect. Maybe some of those demands had been partially attenuated, but together the direction is clear.

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Alexis Glass @mutagene

2 months ago

@GergelyOrosz I share this fear. It's not enough to just not use AI to write for us. As humans it is natural for us to absorb language and eventually even mannerisms. Bit like that Dr Who episode Midnight. This is a dangerous mind virus; everyone for themselves - but this is a contaminant.