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recitedroppertoday at 5:25 PM5 repliesview on HN

Sad turn of events for our world. After watching the behavior of the most senior OpenAI researchers on twitter, I feel even less confident in them as a team to be shepherding this much capital and compute.

The dark forest awaits..


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AlexErranttoday at 6:17 PM

1. What does the dark forest have to do with this? Because "the most senior OpenAI researchers" are shitposting on social media, we've an answer to the Fermi paradox???

2. The dark forest is fun for scifi stories, but is mathematically bunk anyway https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-dark-forest-hypothesis-is-... https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/comments/1l06cnk/cool_w... https://www.projectnash.com/aliens-the-fermi-paradox-and-the...

When doomposting please actually say something substantive. Negative news always gets clicks/updoots; fight that human tendency.

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vmastotoday at 5:45 PM

Indeed, this seems to be the main, albeit hidden, takeaway from all of this.

niccetoday at 8:15 PM

I guess guys from the opposite side would not work there. So that is what will happen more and more.

sheafificationtoday at 5:58 PM

I hate the dark forest more than just about any scifi trope but reality just keeps proving it right.

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