Nick Farr

OH: "Recursive self-improvement in AI is a lot like what the Habsburgs thought they were doing by marrying their cousins."

@16af93@wetdry.world I'm pretty sure LLMs will survive like the Bourbons to some extent. The larger point I'm getting at is these things that appear to be going well--when taken to an extreme--tend to have disastrous consequences. Like killing the em dash. *Sigh*

@16af93@wetdry.world I'm more in the camp of pug breeders/owners being willfully clueless than actively cruel. But I'm also not a fan of animals being kept in captivity at all, especially in cities or other places where they can't roam free. But I also eat meat so I'm a huge hypocrite in a certain sense...

@16af93@wetdry.world Indeed, it works really well right up until weird chins and the War of Spanish Succession.

@16af93@wetdry.world And yet, like AI, most of its users are completely oblivious to the suffering left in its wake. Also, appreciate you pointing that out, I didn't immediately make that connection with pug breeding.