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Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'

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I wonder if this "superintelligence" will be able to convince Zuck that the "metaverse" was just a huge blunder?

I just got a quest 3 a few months ago. The quest 3 itself is amazing but I feel like they already have given up on the "metaverse".

It is pretty shocking how little there is inside Horizon. There isn't even that many people ever using it.

What is most strange to me is the experience on the Quest 3 is absolutely incredible. Whatever they set out to do with the headset, mission accomplished. Most the Horizon Worlds though feel like uninspired weekend projects.

I've been interested in VR for a good while now but the Quest is the only option that isn't too expensive for me to justify the cost, and I'll be damned if I'm giving Zuchenborg any of my money. So, no VR for me yet.

I got a used Quest 2 last year for exactly this reason

Ah Zuck, having to actually run the Company after Sheryl left and getting a free pass for "The managers hired too many people", "Year of Efficiency", "People Are Lazy" and "People are not masculine enough" discovers the Elon method of just paying to cover up incompetence.

Why is Alexandr Wang highlighted as a part of this "Super intelligence" effort?

Unless I'm mistaken, doesn't his company just generate data for people to train AI models with using contractors? Meta has enough data (one would imagine). So how is he helpful here? I'm obv missing something but what is it?

https://archive.is/0xzRe

Meta also created some goggles to pursue VR and something called the Metaverse. How is that going?

Zuck: still flailing around madly after that one profitable idea he had in college.

If he's all in on AI now, does that mean he's going to re-rename Meta to Intel . . . oh, wait.

Yeah, another reorg is sure to fix all your problems. Gotta love big company thinking.

"It can't be any worse than what we have done so far" is a very logical sentiment. The trouble is that they never fully reset the elements that are truly bringing them down while they do reset the elements that are functioning properly because they are mostly outside of management's awareness.

Envelope #2 in a game of 3 Envelopes.

https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ "If anyone builds it, everyone dies".

We can reduce p(doom | superintelligence) though safety efforts.

what incentive does facebook have to make anything other than token efforts re: safety?

"safety" is them paying to slow down their own research

What does "safety" mean in this context? Are you asking what incentive Zuckerberg has in not causing the AI apocalypse?

Off the top of my head it would decrease his real estate portfolio value I guess?

he obviously thinks he can maintain control, else he wouldn't be trying it in the first place

(unless he's one of these must-summon-the-machine-god assholes)

Safety research is mainly focused on avoiding bad words and introducing political bias. There's no fine tuning that can prevent mass unemployment and similar secondary effects.

But those fall infinitely short of doom.

yudkowsky would probably disagree with that statement these days; as I understand, he thinks that short of miracle, these efforts won't amount to much

If anyone posts Yudkowsky, everyone is made stupider.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZS9GDsBtWJMDEyFXh/...

Saying that while unironically posting "effective" "altruism" is a special kind of funny.

His finest work is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

I’m surprised he’s still around but that book looks exactly like what I’d expect

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